Sustainability

Earth Day: How we’re helping our social and environmental systems heal and thrive

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Earth Day: How we’re helping our social and environmental systems heal and thrive

Earth Day was founded in the United States on April 22, 1970, to mark the emergence of the modern environmental movement, and it inspired more than 20 million Americans to take action. By 2020, Earth Day had grown to become an international movement, with more than 1 billion worldwide participating in Earth Day actions. More than fifty years later, the world is more connected than ever before, but we’re suffering from new forms of disconnection:…

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Turning Cisco’s Tuition Reimbursement Green

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Turning Cisco’s Tuition Reimbursement Green

There are seasons in life when change is inevitable, and often, these moments propel personal transformation. For me, one such moment was the passing of my mother in 2021. In the wake of this loss, I decided to return to school to pursue an Executive MBA with a concentration in sustainability. It was the perfect program. Tuesday night classes that fit with my family’s schedule, an in-person option at a faith-based university, and a two-year…

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Coding for a Greener Tomorrow: Developer Sustainability Week Takes Center Stage

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Coding for a Greener Tomorrow: Developer Sustainability Week Takes Center Stage

The search for sustainable technology solutions has become a growing concern for developers. In support of this effort, the Cisco DevNet team is hosting Developer Sustainability Week, an online event that coincides with the celebration of Earth Day. Whether you’re a seasoned developer or a tech enthusiast eager to contribute to a greener planet, this is your chance to be part of the change. Developers are playing a major role in crafting solutions that not…

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Retail Tech Deep-Dive: Meraki MT Sensors

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Retail Tech Deep-Dive: Meraki MT Sensors

Join us as we dive deeper into Cisco and Cisco partner technology deployed at the Cisco Store! We asked Angela Huang (Product Manager, Meraki MT Sensors) to discuss how the sensors are used in the Cisco Store and the larger retail industry.   How do Meraki sensors improve a retailer and shopper’s in-store and/or virtual shopping experience? What problem are they solving? Our Meraki MT sensors are designed to support healthy, safe spaces. They do…

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Innovative Financing for Amazon Region Preservation and Restoration

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Innovative Financing for Amazon Region Preservation and Restoration

This is the third blog in our three-part series about Cisco Foundation partner organizations working in the Amazon and South America region. You can read the other two, and more Climate Impact & Regeneration blogs here! This series introduces you to eight Cisco Foundation partner organizations working to support the preservation and protection of the Amazon basin through three main avenues, all of which are deeply entangled and in tandem, serving to promote enduring environmental protection…

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Retail Tech Deep-Dive: CAE Labs

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Retail Tech Deep-Dive: CAE Labs

Join us as we dive deeper into Cisco and Cisco partner technology deployed at the Cisco Store! We asked Ali McKeand (Chief Technologist for Innovation at CAE Labs) to discuss how their technology boosts sustainability efforts at the Cisco Store and larger retail environments. His work is focused on Cisco-based innovation and programmability, and he has been working with Cisco and various technologies over the last two decades.   How do CAE Labs improve a…

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Empowering Partner Success: How 3 Black Female CEOs lead the charge with AACPC

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Empowering Partner Success: How 3 Black Female CEOs lead the charge with AACPC

The Empowering Partner Success blog series highlights the African American Cisco Partner Community (AACPC), supporting channel partners, and individuals positively impacting partner diversity and the communities they serve.   Celebrating Women’s History Month recently inspired us to kick off the first installment in this series by featuring three African American Cisco Partner Community (AACPC) members that are women-led. Cisco committed $50 million to the AACPC to diversify our partner ecosystem as part of its commitment…

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Build for Better Code Challenge Focuses on AI and Sustainability

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Build for Better Code Challenge Focuses on AI and Sustainability

During our 10 years of DevNet celebratory webinar on March 14th, Shannon McFarland, VP of Cisco DevNet announced a coding challenge for the DevNet community. We call it the Build for Better Code Challenge and this year’s topics are AI and sustainability. We give you a bit more than a month, from March 14th to April 22nd to build an application on AI or sustainability or both that will hopefully amaze the judging panel and…

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Making applications more sustainable with Cisco

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Making applications more sustainable with Cisco

Global greenhouse gas emissions in the tech sector are significant as they are on par or larger than that of the aviation industry. Building applications more sustainably and reducing cloud carbon footprint have become increasingly important as part of organizations’ operational goals. For instance, ebay aims to source 100% renewable electricity for all eBay-controlled data centers and offices by 2025. Organizations have started to practice green coding, with some even re-coding their applications with older programming…

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Sustainability 101: What is environmental reporting?

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Sustainability 101: What is environmental reporting?

Do you feel a bit lost when people refer to certain environmental sustainability topics and aren’t sure where to start when it comes to learning more? Sustainability 101 is a blog series that you can turn to for information about different environmental terms that may come up at work, during discussions with friends, and even at your annual holiday gathering. Companies play a pivotal role in addressing the climate challenges of today and tomorrow, with initiatives and…

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