Tag: google

Google Retains Rank as World’s Most Reputable Employer in Reputation Institute’s 2019 Global Workplace 100 Study

Stuart Mitchell

Google is the world’s most reputable employer for the second consecutive year and, along with The LEGO Group and Microsoft, is one of only three companies to earn a strong global rating, according to the 2019 Global Workplace 100 released today by Reputation Institute. The largest reputation study of its kind, the 2019 Global Workplace 100 is based on 230,000 individual ratings collected in the first quarter of 2019. While Google maintained its first-place ranking, perceptions of the company as a top employer declined since last year’s study. The company’s…

Read More

Google launch new pilot aiming to measure the environmental impact of the fashion industry

Stuart Mitchell

Google have started working together with the Stella McCartney Foundation on a new pilot to measure the environmental impact that the fashion industry has on the environment. Nick Martin, Head of Retail, Google Cloud, has written a blog post about the new pilot which I have reproduced below: Now more than ever, the fashion industry is heeding the call to sustainability. Its environmental impact is significant and growing—among other statistics, the fashion industry accounts for 20 percent of wastewater and 10 percent of carbon emissions globally. Much of this impact…

Read More

“Diversity Pledges” Are Not Enough: Women Startup Challenge at Google to Showcase 10 Finalists Who Are Spearheading Innovation

Stuart Mitchell

To combat the severe lack of funding for women-led startups, Women Who Tech, one of the largest organizations that funds and showcases women-led ventures, announced the ten finalists selected for the Women Startup Challenge at Google. These early-stage, technology startups who are addressing serious gaps in innovation pertaining to Biotech, Education, Agriculture, Humanitarian issues, and more, were selected from 800+ applications. The Women Startup Challenge aims to close the gender gap in the tech sector, providing founders a platform to showcase their ventures which are propagating meaningful change. On May…

Read More

Google commits to first-ever solar power agreement in Asia – Greenpeace statement

Stuart Mitchell

Google has signed a long-term contract to buy 10MW of solar power generated from 40,000 solar panels in Tainan, a city in southern Taiwan, in its first ever Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) in Asia. The electricity Google has purchased from the solar farm will be wheeled to the same grid to help power Google’s data center in Changhua County, and the solar project will be built on commercial fishing ponds and coexist with local ecology. Greenpeace Taiwan’s Energy project manager Chih An Lee said: “For years, Greenpeace has been challenging…

Read More

London Mayor launches world’s largest air quality monitoring network

Stuart Mitchell

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has launched the world’s most advanced and comprehensive network of air quality monitors to help investigate and improve London’s toxic air. Breathe London will use a range of cutting-edge fixed and mobile sensors to build up a real-time, hyperlocal image of London’s air quality. The data these monitors collect from across the capital will provide an unprecedented level of detail about London’s air quality crisis and deliver new insight into the sources of pollution.   To deliver this world-leading project, the Mayor has collaborated with…

Read More