5 Tips for Engaging With Your Community in a New Location
Obviously, you can’t do much to convince a community that you’re local when you’re not. It would be foolish to even try. But you can involve yourself in the community and in the activities that support...
View ArticleLabor and Environment Issues Plague Apple for Third Year
Environmental issues and labor complaints at Chinese plants have put Apple under the microscope for the third year. Suicides, a plant explosion in 2011 and environmental pollution are raising questions...
View ArticleCDP Connects Climate Action and Financial Results
The CDP S&P 500 Climate Change Report 2014, from the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) is good news for those who see a financial payoff from environmental action.
View ArticleNote to Tim Cook: We Need Corporate Action, Not Another ‘It Gets Better’ Story
If you’re going to take a stand on a social issue – with all of Apple’s power and might – make it matter!
View ArticleData Center Renewables Starting to Have a Ripple Effect
Data center advocacy has moved tech companies to renewable energy at an alarming rate. In some cases, it even helped change laws.
View ArticleApple Invests $3 Billion in Solar Energy
“We know that climate change is real,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said. “Our view is that the time for talk has passed, and the time for action is now."
View ArticleEven Apple Gaming Apps Reveal Tech is Still a Boy’s World
One 12-year-old girl, writing in an op-ed for the Washington Post, shows how bias against women in the tech sector is even showing up in games available in Apple’s App Store.
View ArticleApple Forges Historic Partnership on Forests
Apple is making waves in conservation and green energy as well as Internet and computing technology. On April 16, Apple and the Conservation Fund announced they are partnering to protect over 36,000...
View ArticleBig-Time Companies Hop Aboard the Climate Pledge
Thirteen well-known companies have signed President Barack Obama’s climate pledge, each promising to tackle environmental issues in its particular field. Here are their commitments.
View ArticleCompanies, Communities Step Up to Inspire Nations to Help Syrian Refugees
If Nova Scotia's Mi'kaq First Nations are successful in their petition to the Canadian government, the island of Cape Breton will be a new home for Syrian refugees. And if the Israeli company...
View ArticleIndividual Investors Can Now Divest From Fossil Fuels with One ETF
A new exchange-traded fund offers investors a means to match their portfolios with their values backed by data. And get this, it's outperformed the S&P.
View ArticleGoogle Buses Symbolize A Tale of Two Cities
Coined “Google buses,” the long-haul commuter shuttles (most operated by third-party vendors) transport Google, Facebook, Apple, Yahoo and other tech employees day-in and day-out. But not everyone in...
View Article7 Pioneer Companies Shaking Up Sustainability
Read how seven companies are transforming business, and sending strong messages to shareholders and consumers about sustainability.
View ArticleClicking the Way To a Clean Power Future
If the World Wide Web were a country, its energy consumption would rank sixth in the world.
View ArticleApple’s White-Male Board Votes Down Diversity Proposal
Despite an outward commitment to diversity, when push comes to shove, Apple's white- and male-dominated leadership isn't willing to give up its seats for women or people of color.
View ArticleYour Smartphone May Be Linked to Child Labor
Amnesty International found child labor in the supply chains of 16 multinational tech companies, including Apple, Samsung, Daimler and Microsoft.
View ArticleNew Data Debunks Some Data Centers’ Clean Energy Claims
Recent claims by owners of large data centers that a large part of their operations are powered by renewable energy have skeptics coming out of from under their solar panels. Now, there is hard data...
View ArticleCan ‘Han Solo’ Hack the San Bernardino Phone?
The battle between free data access and personal security grabbed headlines this week, around the iPhone belonging to San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook. Apple refused an FBI request to build a...
View ArticleHow ‘Siri’ and AI Tech Are Failing Us In Times of Crisis
A recent study commissioned by Stanford University and the University of California concluded that several smartphone AIs from Apple, Samsung, Google and Microsoft might not be so helpful after all.
View ArticleWill Digital Voice Assistants Bring AI to Everyday Life?
Digital voice assistants like Apple’s Siri and Microsoft's Cortana bring artificial intelligence into the palm of our hands. And a new AI platform promises software that essentially "writes itself."...
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