{"id":13408,"date":"2011-09-06T12:01:29","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T18:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sustainablog.org\/?p=13408"},"modified":"2011-09-06T12:01:29","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T18:01:29","slug":"dell-csr-report-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/dell-csr-report-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dell CSR Report 2011: How's the Greenest Company in America Doing?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A glimpse of the graphic notes from the March DellCAP meeting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve got to admit: I don’t read many corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports any more. Not that there aren’t many companies doing great things on this front; if anything, it’s got a lot to do with so many corporations now issuing such reports. And, with our focus on “small,”<\/a> I’ve chosen more and more to let those who like to focus on big players – Triplepundit<\/a> and GreenBiz<\/a>, for instance – do the heavy lifting here.<\/p>\n

But I made an exception for Dell this year… mainly because the company was kind enough to invite me to its Customer Advisory Panel (CAP) Day event in March<\/a>\u00a0(along with some other great folks in the space such as Paul Smith<\/a>, Derek Markham<\/a>, George Dearing<\/a>, Karen Solomon<\/a>, Ingrid Vanderveldt<\/a>, Heather Clancy<\/a>, and a number of other really impressive folks… and, yes, the company paid for our trips). The event itself was unique, in that the management folks there delivered on the promise of a conversation about their sustainability and corporate social responsibility initiatives and objectives: we all talked as much as we listened. As important, we got tons of insight into the company that Newsweek<\/em> named the Greenest in America in 2010<\/a>… including areas that they still found challenging.<\/p>\n

Since I’ve gotten to know some of the players in the company’s sustainability efforts, reading the report was a no-brainer: I’m interested in what they’re doing (so kudos to the folks who conceived of CAP Days… it worked on the PR front, too!). And, as you might expect, Dell continues to impress. Some quick accomplishments (which I pulled from VP of Corporate Responsibility Trisa Thompson’s blog post<\/a> today):<\/p>\n