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Why Good Environmental Policy Is Good Business
The World Environment Center just awarded its annual Gold Medal award for International Corporate Achievement in Sustainable Development to IBM. The company was recognized for its commitment to...
View ArticleWorld Community Grid Answers Call for Quicker, Cheaper Advanced Materials
Today, the White House is bringing academia together with the public and private sectors to discuss progress on President Obama’s Materials Genome Initiative. Announced last June, the effort seeks to...
View ArticleGiving Time, Talent and Expertise
With IBM’s release of our 2011 Corporate Responsibility Report, we demonstrate clearly and convincingly how we are interweaving our citizenship efforts and business strategy into an integrated approach...
View ArticleLaying the Foundation for Nairobi’s – and Kenya’s – Economic Growth
Today marks the launch of a new IBM Research facility in Nairobi, Kenya. In Kenya alone, IBM has deployed seven Corporate/Executive Service Corps and Smarter Cities Challenge teams to help improve...
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Creating a More Sustainable Economy: Honoring IBM Vermont’s Leadership on...
Contrary to the conventional wisdom that Washington can’t find common ground on anything, there is at least one issue on which we can all agree: Using less energy is a good thing. It’s simply common...
View ArticleSustainability or Bust
We all now know the reality of climate change and its devastating impact on the planet. We are beginning to see it in our daily lives through the dramatic, disturbing, confusing weather we are having...
View ArticleEight Years of Advancing Critical Humanitarian Research
Today, World Community Grid celebrates eight years of bringing together volunteers from around the world to support humanitarian research. World Community Grid taps the spare computational power of...
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Supporting Singapore’s National Movement for Green Schools
When the Singapore Green Building Council (SGBC) was formed, one key priority was the education of the next generation. In order to pursue this goal, SGBC worked with IBM and the Ministry of Education...
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IBM Brazil Wins 30th Annual AmCham ECO Award
(Versão em Português / pt-BR abaixo) AmCham Brasil (the American Chamber of Commerce) – a nonprofit organization that represents around 5,000 small, medium and large companies in Brazil and throughout...
View ArticleTransforming Citizen Services by Moving Big Data to the Cloud
Perhaps the most exciting aspect of innovation is its potential to enable positive societal change. Citizens around the world will reap the benefits of this change as the cost of computing power...
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The Making of a Smarter Geraldton
What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Geraldton, Australia? Our city of 40,000 is located 400 kilometres (249 miles) from Perth, itself regarded as “the most isolated city in the...
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Ensuring Tucson’s Water Future
For thousands of years, people living in the Sonoran Desert Valley have valued water. In the last century, as the Tucson region population has grown to nearly one million, the City of Tucson and our...
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Townsville-IBM Smart Water Partnership Wins Smart Infrastructure Project Award
As you can tell in the photo below, I was extremely proud to accept the Smart Infrastructure Award we took home with IBM from Infrastructure Partnerships Australia 2013 National Infrastructure Awards...
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STEM Education and Our Children’s Future
I recently had the pleasure of joining several IBM engineers and computer scientists in a visit with fifth grade students at Oak Hill Elementary School in South Austin, a new part of my congressional...
View ArticleIBM World Community Grid Powers Hunt for Organic Solar Cell Materials
What if you could capture and convert sunlight into electricity with a material as inexpensive, versatile and easy to produce as the one used for plastic bags? What if a liquid version of this material...
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2012 Corporate Responsibility Report Details Service to a Smarter Planet
IBM’s SmartCloud Brings Relief to Storm-Ravaged Areas In the aftermath of one of the largest and most destructive storms to strike the heavily populated U.S. East Coast, IBM responded with pro bono...
View ArticleOn a Smarter Planet, Every Day Is Earth Day
Today is Earth Day, when the world recognizes ways to make our planet greener and more environmentally sustainable. Unfortunately, the way the world works isn’t smart enough to be sustainable. Click...
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Answering the President’s Call to Support Climate Change Research
President Obama’s Climate Data Initiative is an ambitious new effort to help give communities across America the information and tools they need to plan for current and future climate impacts. This...
View ArticleIBM and Dow Collaborate on Sustainable Solutions for Ethiopia
Starting this week, a team of experts from IBM’s Corporate Service Corps (CSC) and Dow’s Leadership in Action program – brought together with the assistance of PYXERA Global – will collaborate with...
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2013 Corporate Responsibility Report Captures IBM’s Moment of Transformation
Cloud computing. Data analytics. Mobile computing. Social business. Evolving individually, any one of these developments would be a disruption in the way individuals, societies and businesses relate to...
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