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A Collaborative Pathway to Net Zero
SEMICON West 2023 is now in the rear-view mirror, yet its impact will be felt for many years to come. For the first time in my experience as a sustainability professional, I witnessed industry leaders coming to grips with an inherent contradiction: the promise of semiconductors marching toward becoming a $1 trillion market, while simultaneously creating a path to Net Zero carbon emissions.
A Collaborative Pathway to Net Zero
SEMICON West 2023 is now in the rear-view mirror, yet its impact will be felt for many years to come. For the first time in my experience as a sustainability professional, I witnessed industry leaders coming to grips with an inherent contradiction: the promise of semiconductors marching toward becoming a $1 trillion market, while simultaneously creating a path to Net Zero carbon emissions.
Semiconductor Industry Sustainability Priorities – A Syst
Reducing emissions and optimizing resources in semiconductor manufacturing is an immensely complex undertaking, with multiple moving parts and several cascading impacts. While semiconductors are key to enabling a sustainable future, fabricating those chips is a notoriously resource-intensive process. Consider: a single fabrication plant can consume up to 10 million gallons of water a day, as much , and, over the course of a year, generate 60,000 tons of waste.
Enabling a Sustainable Chip Industry
Applied Materials has published its Sustainability Report for 2021, which we titled Make Possible® a Better Future. It highlights the significant progress we’ve made in reducing our carbon footprint and transitioning to renewable energy. At the same time, the report underscores the sustainability challenges we continue to face as a company and as an industry.
Enabling a Sustainable Chip Industry Requires a Long-Term Vision and Near-Term Actions
Applied Materials has published its Sustainability Report for 2021, which we titled Make Possible® a Better Future. It highlights the significant progress we’ve made in reducing our carbon footprint and transitioning to renewable energy. At the same time, the report underscores the sustainability challenges we continue to face as a company and as an industry.
Ethics, Compliance and Risk: Creating a Shared ESG Vision
Date/Time: July 20, 2021 (1-2PM ET / 10-11AM PT) Sustainability has long been a practice for many forward-thinking businesses. But a renewed focus on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues from investors, employees, customers and regulators has driven corporate ethics and compliance (E&C) groups to become more involved in sustainability and ESG programs.
eBay and TIME’S UP Partner to Celebrate the Movement’s One-Year Anniversary
Today, eBay and TIME’S UP are launching an initiative to raise funds for the TIME’S UP Legal Defense Fund in celebration of the movement’s upcoming one-year anniversary. Now through December 20th, shoppers can visit eBay.com/TIMESUP to make an impact through a variety of inventory and once-in-a-lifetime experiences.
eBay Revitalizing Main Street by Helping Small Businesses Thrive Locally and Sell Globally
Small businesses are the biggest generator of jobs in America, making up nearly half of all private sector employment. Yet many of those small businesses have been locked into local—and sometimes depressed—markets. Nearly 75 percent of small businesses don’t have any e-commerce presence, and less than 2 percent of U.S. small businesses export.
Retail Revival: Hello Lansing!
Earlier this year, on a chilly January morning in Northeast Ohio, eBay announced a partnership with the city of Akron. A partnership intended to support small business by helping connect local entrepreneurs with eBay’s 175 million customers around the world. Dubbed ‘Retail Revival,’ our only ask of Akron’s business community was an open mind. This was about starting a movement, and shifting a mindset; staying local, but selling global.
Retail Revival: Hello Lansing!
Earlier this year, on a chilly January morning in Northeast Ohio, eBay announced a partnership with the city of Akron. A partnership intended to support small business by helping connect local entrepreneurs with eBay’s 175 million customers around the world. Dubbed ‘Retail Revival,’ our only ask of Akron’s business community was an open mind. This was about starting a movement, and shifting a mindset; staying local, but selling global.
Giving Small Businesses the World - While Keeping Jobs Close to Home
Ceres is proud to partner with Sustainable Brands for the upcoming SB'18 Toronto event. The following blog was written by By Chris Librie, Head of Global Impact and Giving at eBay which is a member of Ceres Company Network. The blog was originally posted on Sustainable Brands. "It means more jobs. People can live where they work.
Giving Small Businesses the World--While Keeping Jobs Close to Home
"It means more jobs. People can live where they work. People can enjoy their community–and also make money–while being part of a global community and economy that’s never been possible before." That’s how Grace Kontur, founder of Kontur Wood Works, describes the impact of complementing the brick-and-mortar businesses she owns with her father and brother with selling on eBay.
Giving Small Businesses the World--While Keeping Jobs Close to Home
"It means more jobs. People can live where they work. People can enjoy their community–and also make money–while being part of a global community and economy that’s never been possible before." That’s how Grace Kontur, founder of Kontur Wood Works, describes the impact of complementing the brick-and-mortar businesses she owns with her father and brother with selling on eBay.
Giving Small Businesses the World-While Keeping Jobs Close to Home
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How HP is preparing for 3 billion connected users
Think about how much data you produce and save. How much of that data goes into the cloud? Have you ever thought about where that cloud is? The fact is, the "cloud" is made up of physical machines humming away in a data center somewhere. Those data centers take heaps of energy to run and keep cool, and are increasingly a necessity in today's connected world.
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