By Kathrin Winkler November 10, 2009 APJ. , Battery regulations , best practices , Climate Corps , corporate sustainability , CSO , data sets , DESC , E3 , EHS , EMC , energy consumption , energy efficiency , Energy Star , engineering , Engineering's Energy Efficiency and Effectiveness , environment , environmental , Environmental Sustainability Board , eWaste regulation , facilities , GHG emissions , Green Business , Green Champions , Green-IT , Innovation Conference , mentoring , Principles of Environmental Sustainability , procurement , product compliance , ranking , renewable energy , RFP , risks , social , strategy , supply chain , sustainability , The Green Grid , vendor , waste , WEEE , WEF , WRI
The following is an account of one day on the job with Kathrin Winkler. She is Sr. Director and Chief Sustainability Officer at EMC Corporation, where she has a history of taking on entirely new roles in which she has to fill in the interstices between more traditional functions. She took on the full-time sustainability position in July of 2008.
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Last week, Sierra Magazine named the nation’s top 20 “coolest” schools for their efforts to stop global warming and operate sustainably. The magazine’s September/October cover story spotlights the schools that they believe are making a true impact for the planet, and marks Sierra’s third annual listing of America’s greenest universities and colleges. The […]
