This week, The Energy Collective , a blog on energy and climate, posted an article on smart cities and smart grids. The article looks at how transportation can be made more sustainable by moving people and goods in a cleaner, safer, greener, and healthier...

Getting people out of their cars is a huge part of how a company can reduce its environmental footprint. That’s why Microsoft introduced The Connector five years ago . The Connector is a shuttle service for Puget Sound-based Microsoft employees that now...

This week, Environmental Leader posted an article discussing how many companies lack long-term water strategies. According to consulting firm KPMG , 60 percent of the world’s 250 largest companies have no strategy for long-term water use. Some industries...

We’ve written before about how cloud computing has the potential to reduce energy use by 30 to 90 percent when organizations migrate from smaller data centers to Microsoft’s cloud. That’s one reason why the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently...

Each quarter, the company gives out an Environmental Sustainability Action Award in recognition of an employee or team who has shown leadership, exemplifying how Microsoft and its employees can have a positive impact. These leaders help us improve not...