Work Goes Green

Abt Electronics, Becoming Green is Part of Their Retail Model

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:00:00 GMT

Abt Electronics’ Green Program includes a recycling center, windmills and energy efficient products that save money in an uncertain economy.

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eBay: Greening From The Inside Out

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:22:00 GMT

GreenTech TV sat down with eBay to find out what’s driving their sustainability success. (The eBay Green Team started out as an employee group — just 40 colleagues getting together to talk about how to make eBay a greener company. Today, more than 2,400 employees are members, representing 23 countries around the world.) http://www.ebaygreenteam.com/green-at-ebay

Recently, GreenTech TV Editor, Karen Nelson had the privilege to interview Libby Reder, eBay’s Head of Environmental Initiatives, and co-founder of the eBay Green Team to find out what is driving eBay’s green successes.

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Green At Work: High Technology

Fri, 28 May 2010 14:30:00 GMT

Find out how the passion for sustainability reached a tipping point at Synaptics and unleashed a flood of green change.

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Green From the Ground Up

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:00:00 GMT

Find out how start-up companies like SolarCity can make environmentally sustainable work practices work for the bottomline...

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Work Goes Green: High Technology

Fri, 21 May 2010 15:30:00 GMT

Find out how the passion for sustainability reached a tipping point at Synaptics and unleashed a flood of green change.

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Work Goes Green: Yale is a Certifiably Green University (Part 1)

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:45:00 GMT

As part of Yale's continuing commitment to creating a sustainable campus, the Yale Office of Sustainability has developed a set of Green Certification programs for workplaces, labs, and events. The green certification program is designed to educate faculty and staff about sustainable practices they can implement to reduce Yale's impact on the environment. GreenTech TV spoke with Melissa Goodall, Assistant Director of Yale’s Office of Sustainability, to learn more about the programs and talk about the environmental leadership role that Yale is playing among universities around the world.

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Work Goes Green: Hospitals

Fri, 07 May 2010 14:00:00 GMT

At Rush University Medical Center, Chicago’s first full-service green hospital, and a leader among green hospitals in the U.S., they’re taking dramatic action to reduce their carbon footprint. In fact, they are one of only four hospitals in the country to be Gold LEED certified.

Part of their success comes from the support and commitment of the employee-based Rush Green Team. Mary Gregoire, PhD, and head of the team, talks about what they’re doing and how they’re doing it. In Part I of this two part series we focus on some of their biggest wins.

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Work Goes Green: Hospitals

Thu, 13 May 2010 16:30:00 GMT

Green teams are self-organized, grassroots and cross-functional groups of employees who voluntarily come together to educate, inspire and empower employees around sustainability. Find out how the Rush University Medical Center’s Green Team is taking smalls steps that are driving big change.

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Work Goes Green: NetApp

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:30:00 GMT

NetApp’s egalitarian culture and down-to-earth management methods catapulted them to the #1 spot on Fortune Magazine’s Top 100 Companies to Work For in 2009. It has infused their green work culture with a uniquely creative, communal flavor. Laura Pickering, Vice President at NetApp, talks about their unique e-waste reduction program, creative solutions to going green during tough economic times, and the impact green commitment can have on employee recruitment.

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Work Goes Green: NetApp (Part 2)

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:00:00 GMT

Today’s data centers are the epicenter of the enterprise and the demand for more and more powerful IT equipment just keeps rising, as well as driving increased demand on the world’s power grids. NetApp talks about what they’re doing to reduce their own data centers’ carbon footprints by 80 percent and how they’re helping customers do the same.

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