http://www.zdnet.com/blog/sustainability/rss en-us 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 has announced it will require annual sustainability disclosure from suppliers.

]]> 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’.

]]> 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?

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

]]> 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 strategic priorities for sustainability but is the board yet united behind a common strategy?

]]> 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.

]]> 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.

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

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