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IBM, one of the world’s largest technology firms, recently announced they would require its suppliers to install new management systems for tracking their environmental impacts. The primary data to be collected and reported include energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, waste generation, and recycling efforts. Suppliers must also set environmental goals and make their progress public (via the Internet or annual reporting) in meeting those goals. In turn, these companies must ask their subcontractors to do the same. IBM currently holds contracts with 28,000 suppliers in over 90 countries. Read More-> IBM’s Environmental Push

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”

As we continue to evolve as a nation and adapt to the changing American landscape, we continue to impress upon ourselves new and innovative ways of conducting business and government. The educational system is no different. Despite the chronic cycle of slashed budgets and growing classroom sizes (thanks in most part to State officials and value shifts), technology always seems to find a way of reducing the stress and anxiety on school boards, teachers, and administrators. Take the State of California’s Digital Textbook Initiative as an example.

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Product stewardship means whoever designs, produces, sells, or uses a product takes responsibility for minimizing its environmental impact through all stages of the product’s life cycle. Producers of technological goods have always passed the cost of disposal onto local and state waste municipalities. Local government, plagued by many unfunded mandates and lack of enforcement ability, want and need product stewardship laws in place. This constant strain has created tensions between the private and public sectors. The movement tries to change the way in which manufacturers and producers design, transport, and dispose of material. Read More-> Technology and Going Green