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This blog was originally posted on the CA Technologies Corporate Blog:聽 Perspectives. I鈥檓 very proud to announce that CA Technologies is a signatory of the BICEP Climate Declaration, launched today in Washington, DC.聽 We have talked about BICEP previously on this blog, and the Climate Declaration is an example of how the organization is mobilizing business leadership to promote a sustainable world.聽 [...]
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Open, balanced and transparent standards are a critical part of the electronics industry, allowing manufacturers to develop parts that easily connect and interact with each other; better manage materials information in the supply chain; use uniform testing methods to determine regulatory compliance, and even develop the best way to display electronic pictures and videos.聽 More recently, standards have [...]
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Almost 10 years ago, members of the technology industry joined with colleagues from U.S. EPA, the business and government purchasing community, and environmental non-profits to develop a consistent way to measure sustainability attributes of computers and monitors.聽 The results of that work were twofold: 聽the IEEE 1680 standard, which established product criteria, and the related EPEAT program, which [...]
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Two weeks ago, instead of experiencing the D.C. snow storm that never came, I was in California attending the Green Grid Forum 2013.聽 For those of you who don't know about it, The Green Grid (TGG) is an open industry consortium of end users, policy makers, technology providers, facility architects, and utility companies that works to improve the resource efficiency of data centers. With more than 175 [...]
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The President today selected three new leaders for his Cabinet who, together, will be critical for the success of America鈥檚 businesses, and particularly the technology sector.聽 The Secretary of Energy, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) are three individuals whose work will shape the direction of the United States [...]
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Think of helium, and we think birthday balloons and silly high-pitched voices.聽 But helium plays a number of critical roles in our economy 鈥� from health care to high-tech manufacturing.聽 Helium is a key component in MRI machines, for instance, and we couldn鈥檛 make the semiconductors for our computers and other electronics without it.聽 That鈥檚 why a looming cut-off of helium sales is so concerning, and [...]
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In his Inaugural Address today, President Obama combined poetry and prose as he spoke about the priorities that he will bring to his second term in office. 聽For many of these issues,聽the technology sector has put forward ideas with聽backing from both Democratic and Republican Members of Congress.聽 The challenge consistently has been building broader support to move policies from good proposals to new [...]
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Sparky Anderson, who managed World Series-winning teams in Cincinnati and Detroit, once remarked, 鈥淲e鈥檙e getting close to opening day.聽 I don鈥檛 know if that鈥檚 a good or bad thing.鈥澛� January 3rd, 2013 marked American policymaking鈥檚 opening day:聽 the start of the 113th Congress.聽聽 We in the tech industry see the start of a new season of policymaking as a good thing because ours is an industry rooted [...]
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This past Wednesday in Brussels, the European Union (EU) hosted a 鈥淲orkshop on a possible comprehensive 鈥楨U initiative on minerals originating from conflict areas鈥�.鈥� This particular forum was limited to EU officials and invited experts from the OECD, academia, civil society and the business community. The EU will likely advance the initiative in 2013, first with a public consultation and subsequently [...]
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鈥淥ur top priority has to be jobs and growth . . . providing more Americans the chance to learn the skills that businesses are looking for right now; keeping this country at the forefront of research, technology and clean energy.鈥澛犅� That鈥檚 how President Obama opened his first post-election news conference, before spending the majority of time talking about anything but job creation.聽 Ok, in the President鈥檚 [...]
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