ESPOO, Finland – The natural reaction at Nokia may be to blush coyly with news that it has today been named the world’s most sustainable technology company, according to the freshly released Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes for 2009-10. However, here on Conversations we’re unabashedly proud to see Nokia earn the top slot as the most sustainable technology company in the world, because we’ve been keen followers, eagerly writing about many of the great stories, projects and initiatives that Nokia has been committed to in order to help get it to the position it has achieved today.
Of course, most of the folk directly involved with bringing the ethos of innovative sustainability to life at Nokia are indeed of the blushing breed, but as we’re not (remember Conversations is written by an Anglo-Brazilian, a couple of Americans and an Irishman!) we’ll happily shine a light on some of the smart projects and some lesser-read public Nokia documents that go some way to understanding how and why Nokia continues to be so focused on being a company actively in pursuit of employing great sustainability practices.
ESPOO, Finland – The folks at Nokia Singapore had a little issue. They wanted to have a round table discussion with journalists to discuss the environmental activities we have at Nokia. One problem: all the people they wanted to talk to were in Espoo. It seemed silly to make a special event and have the speakers fly down. While the event would have been good, the flights, time, and money spent would not have been proper.
We do have this amazing HALO system for really good video conferencing. And we have a HALO room in Espoo and Singapore, so it made sense to invite the journalists in Singapore to connect to the people in Espoo via HALO.* We sat in on the round table discussion and took some video of what it was like (see below). Also, there were some great things said and some choice presentations. But we’ll hold off on those because we’re possibly having another round table in the near future.
So, read on to see what it was like and to see some video of the round table event.
GLOBAL – A couple of weeks ago we posed you the question, what do you think is the most important aspect of eco phones? The poll has now closed, the votes have been tallied up, and the results are in.
Click through to find out what you and your fellow Nokia Conversations readers reckon are the top requirements of an environmentally savvy handset. Continue reading>>
GLOBAL – Welcome to the first ever poll on Nokia Conversations! Each week we’ll be asking you to vote on hot topics. The ambition is that your responses will help steer some of what we write about here – no doubt there will be controversial consensuses and surprise results, both of which will lead us to probe deeper and write follow-up stories on the subjects that interest you most.
Plus, of course, we want you to suggest poll questions (visit our suggest a topic page) – questions you’d like seen answered by the Nokia Conversations community. So to kick things off we thought we’d run a poll on eco phones and ask what do you think is most important?
ISTANBUL, Turkey – Nokia is tremendously aware that improving sustainability and raising eco awareness, when it comes to mobile devices, can’t solely be addressed with the introduction of environmentally-minded products and practices – it has to stretch further than this, both internally, externally via projects such as we:recycle, and more gradually through the education of children and projects such as the recent Dreams Workshop recycle-themed art exhibition in Turkey.
Read on to find out more about the Recycling Dreams exhibition, and click through to see a gallery of the artwork created by the kids involved.
GLOBAL – 2008 was the year that saw mobile phone chargers become a serious talking point and their shortfalls actively and openly addressed. The lifeblood of our devices, phone chargers have in many cases been rightly demonized for wasting energy, but this year we’ve witnessed the beginnings of a revolutionary change.
BARCELONA, Spain – Would you buy a phone over the counter, if it didn’t come in a box? That’s just one of the ideas the environmental people at Nokia are looking at, taking the move to smaller, more efficient, packaging to its very logical conclusion. I don’t think it’d work myself, but I’ve no doubt we’ll end up somewhere between that and the packs we currently see shipping.
GLOBAL – Only last week I posed the big phone charger question, and it was great to see so many of you get involved in the debate and post a heap of interesting and extremely well considered points.
LONDON, England - I have on my desk three boxes. One contained the N96 currently residing in my pocket, the other contains the 5310 I’ll start playing with when Comes With Music launches on Thursday and the third is the N85 I’ve got to play with Nokia viNe. Why does all that matter? Well, it’s all to do with the boxes, actually. See, the difference in size, between the N96 and the N85 is huge. Or at least, the N96 box is huge, whilst the N85 isn’t.
GLOBAL – Sometimes it takes someone else to notice something you do before you really take notice of it yourself. I like to think I’m well up on Nokia’s Corporate Social Responsibility strategy, particularly given that we write a fair amount about it here on Conversations.
But a piece today on Earth911.org brought home just how dramatic Nokia’s activities in that regard are.
ESPOO, Finland – The natural reaction at Nokia may be to blush coyly with news that it has today been named the world’s most sustainable technology company, according to the freshly released Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes for 2009-10. However, here on Conversations we’re unabashedly proud to see Nokia earn the top slot as the most sustainable technology company in the world, because we’ve been keen followers, eagerly writing about many of the great stories, projects and initiatives that Nokia has been committed to in order to help get it to the position it has achieved today.
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