15 Year-Old Helps Motivate Dell Ocean Plastics Program
Last week, I joined Dell and Adrian Grenier as we hosted the … READ MORE
Environment
It’s Time to Vote…on the Dell Circular Economy People’s Choice Award
Let’s face it: we’re all ready for this election season to be over. Amidst all the negativity and divisive choices, I would like to offer you an opportunity to feel good and cast your vote for one of the six great entrepreneurial companies competing for the Dell Circular … READ MORE
Raise a Glass to the New Dell XPS 13 Rose Gold
Thursday night was unlike most PC product launches I’ve done over the years. Rather than gather a bunch of reporters, bloggers and influencers in a ballroom or conference room, we hosted them in the Serge Sorokko Gallery and paired each new device with a delicious wine from Jackson … READ MORE
How One Dell Business Partner Has Grown Their Sustainable Idea Into Success
Business Insider and author Erin Brodwin recently reported how a startup founded by two college friends is turning mushrooms into furniture, wall tiles, insulation and sustainable packaging —and doing business with major companies including Dell. Co-founders Eben Bayer and Gavin McIntyre built the company on the breakthrough idea to … READ MORE
Instrumenting the Physical World Around Us
The following is a guest post by actor, filmmaker, entrepreneur and sustainability champion Adrian Grenier. As Dell’s Social Good Advocate, Grenier collaborates with us to promote healthier, more sustainable choices and actions through digital storytelling and advocacy. Dell also supports Adrian’s ocean conservation work through technology. You can follow … READ MORE
Technology and Its Lead Role in Our Shift to a Circular Economy
This article can be read in full as originally reported by CIOReview.com. Dell’s Chief Supply Chain Officer Kevin Brown recently authored an article in CIOReview.com about the benefits of a circular economy and how technology can lead our shift to one. This is a change Dell strongly believes in. … READ MORE
Electronics Recycling, People and Second Chances Through Dell Reconnect
Did you know your recycled printer may be a part of my new Dell computer? That’s right. We are leading the industry in efforts to recycle computer plastic. In 2016, we used 3.4 million pounds of closed-loop plastics in enclosures for new Dell products! These plastics were used … READ MORE
Dell Awarded 2016 Texas Environmental Excellence “Pollution Prevention” Award
Trucost estimates an environmental cost savings to society of $700 million per year if the entire computer manufacturing industry switched to closed-loop recycled plastic. That’s just one reason we’re honored that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) recently recognized our work pioneering a circular economy for IT … READ MORE
And the Winner of the Legacy of Good Short Film Contest is…
Those of you who follow me on the web have likely seen many references to the “Circular Economy” over the last year. Whether familiar with the term or not, you probably agree that designing out waste and getting smarter with our resources is a good thing. But at … READ MORE
Earth Day: Dell Cloud Client-Computing is Enabling Energy Efficient IT Environments
In my role, I have the opportunity to speak with many customers all over the world. For the ones that I do not get to speak with personally, I hear their stories through my colleagues that work with them in deploying VDI solutions. While our customers continue to … READ MORE
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle… and Dance?
“Everyone Matters.” It’s painted on the wall inside the Goodwill® Central Texas Resource Center—above 125,000 square feet of second-hand goods and distribution machinery. This is where each of the 150 employees at the Resource Center made recycling over 7,500 tons of material possible last year. In 2015, they … READ MORE
How Dell Will Divert 820,000 Pounds of Carbon Fiber from Landfills
Dell garnered some news headlines earlier this week when we announced that, as part of our circular economy initiatives, we would be increasing the amount of recycled materials we use to make our hardware. Specifically, we will be the first in our industry to use recycled carbon fiber. … READ MORE