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Sustainability: The Green Age of Advertising

While reading through The New York Times on Monday, I came across a giant blue ad proclaiming "It took 125 years to use the first trillion barrels of oil. We'll use the next trillion in 30." More blue boxes showed up on subsequent ...READ»

Information Is Everything

...And everywhere. It's a simple idea: If you want people to solve problems in real time, give them real-time information. Here's a look at how US West, Chevron, and Micron Electronics are using information to empower their people.READ»

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Brightsource Brings Solar Power to the Oil Industry

What do you think of when you hear the phrase "solar power"? Chances are, you don't picture a Chevron oil field. Yet that's exactly where BrightSource Energy wants to put a 29-megawatt solar thermal plant by the end of 2010. As oil ...READ»

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Nuns Pressure Chevron to Track Carbon Emissions

Oil companies aren't usually known for their environmental awareness, but Chevron became the largest company--and the only major U.S. oil company--to track its carbon emissions yesterday. The declaration came partially as a result ...READ»

A Reformer Who Means Business

With legal tenacity, business diplomacy, and media savvy, Cyrus Mehri has tackled racial discrimination at some of America's best-known organizations, from Texaco to the NFL. He has won huge awards and made real change. He's even winning some fans in the executive suite.READ»

He Drills for Knowledge

As Texaco taps oil fields all around the world in search of crude, John Old helps the company's 18,000 people tap their collective brainpower -- and the ideas to help the company operate faster and more productively.READ»

The CSR Industry's Lost Cause

What does the 2009 CRO 100 Best Corporate Citizens list say about the current state of the CSR industry? Perhaps it’s time for a makeover. READ»

Time to Reflect

"It's hard to share knowledge if you don't have enough time to reflect on what you know or what you need to learn. Most companies have squeezed almost all of the reflection time out of their business processes." --John Old, knowledge ...READ»

Time to Reflect

"It's hard to share knowledge if you don't have enough time to reflect on what you know or what you need to learn. Most companies have squeezed almost all of the reflection time out of their business processes." --John ...READ»

Time to Reflect

"It's hard to share knowledge if you don't have enough time to reflect on what you know or what you need to learn. Most companies have squeezed almost all of the reflection time out of their business processes." --John Old, knowledge ...READ»

Digital Matters - Issue 37

"The dotcom crash was like a shark attack."READ»

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UC Davis's Energy Efficiency Center Makes Conservation Sexy

Professor Andrew Hargadon believes energy efficiency can be sexy -- and he's winning fans at Chevron, Samsung, and Wal-Mart, and in Silicon Valley.READ»

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Clean Tech Recession: Winners And Losers

Green energy is still a lightning-fast growth area in venture capital--VC investment in green energy technologies in 2008 exceeded $7.7 billion in more than 350 deals, more than double last year’s dollar totals, according to ...READ»

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How the U.S. Postal Service Is Saving Millions Through Energy Efficient Retrofitting

We've written about the U.S. Postal Service's sustainable endeavors before--namely, its plan to buy 1,600 fuel-efficient vehicles and build the biggest green roof in NYC. As it turns out, sustainability has already paid off big time ...READ»

Hall Monitors

These days, getting involved in public schools is practically a requirement for top companies. Here are some of the most ambitious initiatives.READ»

I'm Gonna Wash That Ad Right out of My Hair

Even if you're not in the WB's target demographic -- and honestly, you'd be reading Tigerbeat's blog if you were -- that's no reason not to tune in tonight at 8 for What I Like About You. According to the WB, this show is about two ...READ»

Fast Talk: Chevron's Underground Researcher

Don Paul Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Chevron San Ramon, California Don Paul, 61, a former research geophysicist who manages Chevron's R&D partnerships, has teamed up with Los Alamos scientists to use ...READ»

The Most Innovative Companies in Clean Energy

You have seen our Fast Company 50. But what are the companies within specific categories doing creative and ground-breaking work? Who is leading an industry into the future? Here we present the top ten firms in Clean Energy.READ»

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Performance Anxiety

Nothing like a good profit motive to accelerate public policy. READ»

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