Forum One

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Amy Skoczlas Cole from eBay explained how a grassroots employee effort for office-wide green initiatives grew to an online movement around the environmental impact of reused goods. eBay's Green Team began with a group of San Jose employees. eBay's Green Team began with a group of San Jose employees.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 21, 2005

The event was hosted in San Jose by the Community Foundation Silicon Valley. The three entrepreneurs featured were my buddies David Green of Project Impact and Martin Fisher of KickStart (formerly ApproTEC) as well as someone I was delighted to meet and have dinner with afterwards, Kailash Satyarthi.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Boynton High School in San Jose, CA uses stop-motion animation to tackle water conservation. December is Human Rights Month, and it inspired some great work. Check out some of the recent entries: The American Indian Foundation takes you on a tour of India’s slums. Employee Engagement.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

Our local paper, the San Jose Mercury News, did two great pieces on Benetech, a business section feature story and an exceptional column by Mike Cassidy entitled An Executive Does Well By Helping Others. My two closest peers in California have both gotten MacArthurs (Victoria Hale this year and David Green two years ago).

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 20, 2014

. $3,831,628.14. 136,067.00. 1,254,477.80. 164,759.00. 1,515,883.50. 105,809.00. 964,894.77. 967,487.00. 8,795,222.76. Tallahassee. 182,965.00. 1,662,103.19. Gainesville. 125,326.00. 1,124,407.06. 8,971.86.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 23, 2010

From time to time, we get a chance to find out firsthand what some of our TechSoup donor partners are doing in the area of green technology and corporate social responsibility. The occasion for getting to know Adobe better came with the launch of Adobe's new wind turbines at their headquarters building in San Jose.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 26, 2009

The personal webpage has many adherents, and some institutions, like The Tech Museum in San Jose, have been offering them for almost a decade. I worked with the Boston Children's Museum on a project called Our Green Trail (check it out!) There are some obvious positives to this strategy.

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