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  • US Chamber of Commerce accused of undermining conflict minerals regulation. So who is backing the Chamber?

    By James Farrar | October 19, 2011, 3:55pm PDT

    The US Chamber of Commerce is accused of lobbying to water down regulation to control conflict minerals in the supply chain. But who is supporting the US Chamber on this?

  • Microsoft to pressure supply chain on sustainability

    By James Farrar | October 13, 2011, 6:40am PDT

    Microsoft has announced it will require annual sustainability disclosure from suppliers.

  • Cloud Wars: Green & Clean or a Cockroach Motel?

    By James Farrar | October 11, 2011, 6:20pm PDT

    Dreamforce and Oracle Open World surfaced a rhetorical war of corporate responsibility: the clean cloud versus a cloud so compromised on privacy and security it can be characterised as the ‘roach motel of clouds’.

  • Conflict minerals: some progress in the Congo?

    By James Farrar | October 7, 2011, 4:38pm PDT

    The US government is kick starting an effort to get a ‘conflict free’ certification program off the ground for electronics manufacturers who sources minerals in the Democratic Republic of Congo. But does this thing have legs?

  • Is Oracle going green?

    By James Farrar | October 7, 2011, 10:53am PDT

    With the introduction of some new sustainability solutions and the appointment of a Chief Sustainability Office is Oracle going green?

  • Steve Jobs: the anti-Davos, Davos man

    By James Farrar | October 6, 2011, 8:26am PDT

    Steve Jobs didn’t spend a lot of time trading personal influence with the canape crowd. He didn’t scrub up well to role play CEO as statesman. But then he didn’t need to all that much. He let his products do the talking instead.

  • Ethical investors weigh in on HP's sustainability future but is the board strategy yet clear?

    By James Farrar | October 3, 2011, 5:45pm PDT

    Ethical investors weigh in on HP’s strategic priorities for sustainability but is the board yet united behind a common strategy?

  • Unwatchable: dial R for rape. How much does your handset really cost?

    By James Farrar | September 28, 2011, 7:36am PDT

    Unwatchable is a graphic new film highlighting sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo as a tactic in the control of minerals used for electronics manufacturing. It’s part of a campaign asking UK consumers to demand manufacturers control their supply chains and that governments introduce legislation to control the trade.

  • Leo Apotheker's HP legacy: a global vision

    By James Farrar | September 23, 2011, 1:13pm PDT

    As Leo Apotheker departs HP, perhaps his lasting legacy is to give HP a truly global vision and a strategy of capturing the markets, rather than just the corporate treasury, to drive sustainable development.

  • Will HP get greener with Meg Whitman at the helm?

    By James Farrar | September 22, 2011, 1:16pm PDT

    Meg Whitman is set to take the helm at HP so what can the environmental movement expect of her leadership?