Google: A sustainable company
by: Grace Boyd
"Don't be evil."
The companies unofficial slogan.
What is Google?
Google is an American multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, software, and hardware.
Location:
Mountain View, California
About:
Founders: Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Founded: September 8, 1998
Size: over 52,000 employeesLocation: Mountain View, California
Google recognizes that environmental responsibility is integral to producing world-class products.
Environmental Management System
The EMS will be implemented and functioning.
Hazardous Substances
Identify and manage chemicals and other materials posing a hazard to human health, human safety or the environment to ensure their safe handling, movement, storage, use, recycling or reuse and disposal.
Wastewater and Solid Waste
Characterize, monitor, control and treat as required prior to discharge or disposal all wastewater and solid waste generated from operations, industrial processes and sanitation facilities.
Air Emissions
Characterize, monitor, control and treat as required prior to discharge all air emissions of volatile organic chemicals, aerosols, corrosives, particulates, ozone depleting chemicals and combustion by-products generated from operations.
Resource Efficiency
Google is committed to using resources efficiently, supporting renewable power and purchasing high quality carbon offsets. Supplier must work to reduce consumption of resources, including raw materials, energy and water, throughout all aspects of the product lifecycle (e.g., product design, manufacturing process, packaging design, transportation, product use and product end-of-life management).
Materials Disposal
At Google’s request, Supplier will provide documentary evidence acceptable to Google that Supplier has managed and disposed of materials in accordance with this Supplier Code.
In 2015, Google cafés in the Bay Area saved 440,540 pounds of food from going to waste. So far in 2016, that figure is more than 1 million pounds, and the number is rising.
They have had great success securing significant amounts of renewable energy at rates that are competitive with nonrenewable sources.
They have created a program called Sunroof that collets tons of data and provides power to homes and their facilities.
Earth Engine creates a living map of forest loss.
Machine learning finds new ways for data centers to save energy.