It’s been a cranky sort of week, so I decide to write about something that will make me uncranky — although I’m not exactly sure when I’ll be able to post this article, since my internet service provider Optimum has been asleep at the wheel for three days now. Can…
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HP Gets Specific About Nixing Single-Use Plastic
We’re wrapping up what I affectionately refer to as corporate social responsibility report season, during which I am deluged on an almost daily basis with lengthy digital documents packed with updates about corporate sustainability initiatives. I almost never write about these things, despite all the well-meaning pitches requesting this. Sorry…
Entrepreneurship
Danish Jewelry Maker Pandora Pledges Not to Buy Newly Mined Silver and Gold
Most of us probably don’t think of mining as an earth-friendly process, so addressing it is one of the most important — and specific — things that jewelry companies can do to reduce their carbon footprint. That’s the motivation behind Danish company Pandora’s pledge in early June to start using…
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HP Is Using Ocean-bound Plastics in its Latest Chromebook
Many, many, many big companies have made commitments to reducing the flow of plastics into the oceans. HP Inc. is now using materials have been recovered through its four-year-old initiative in Haiti in at least four different product line. It’s only a teeny-tiny bit, but still. The latest entry is…
The Apple+Google Deal Is Both Amazing and Terrifying
As of yesterday, there were 55 “presumptive positive” cases of COVID-19 in my small Northern New Jersey town. I don’t know who my ailing neighbors are, and that gives me some comfort that I haven’t been exposed to the virus — because if I had any contact with them, I…
Entrepreneurship
I Love This Logistics Startup’s COVID-19 Pivot
As we are all beginning to discover, the complicated science of logistics doesn’t always respond so well to unknown variables. The extreme household toilet paper shortage is only partially due to panic buying — the reality is that people really DO need more of the stuff, with everyone confined to…
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Yes, there’s an app for that: Apple releases COVID-19 resource
Greetings from Bergen County in New Jersey, where my socially-isolated spirits have been raised by my afternoon session in the garden. I just spent some time perusing the news for positive news related to the coronavirus crisis, and came across this update from Apple: it has released an app with…
Entrepreneurship
It’s time for tech companies to show their conscience
If my 30-something-years experience as a journalist holds true, this will be the week many U.S. tech companies emerge from the relative radio silence that has characterized their public response to economic upheaval being wreaked by coronavirus to talk about how they plan to help — not just with immediate…
No Amazon, Now Is Not the Time to Be Quiet About Climate Change
Last spring, a group of Amazonians — collectively known as Amazon Employees for Climate Justice (AECJ) — earned national headlines with their very vocal and very public advocacy for meaningful climate action. Their employer, they argued, had a responsibility to be more agressive about reducing its footprint and to be…
I Knew This Podcast Powerhouse When He Was ‘Just’ a Marketing Powerhouse
Over the past six months, my long-time friend Christopher Lochhead — the same guy who convinced me I COULD write a book, resulting in the July 2018 release of our book about entrepreneurship, Niche Down — has become a totally-on-fire host of not one but TWO podcasts. They’re related, of…