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- August
2011
Google-Motorola Deal Accelerates Fusion of Mobile Economy and Smart Green Economy
Yesterday, 15 August 2011, Google announced its acquisition of Motorola Mobility for $12.5B. At $40.00 per share this equals a premium of 63% compared to the closing price of the Motorola share on Friday. Given that I entered the Mobile Economy back in 2000 and went green in 2010, I want to comment on the impact of the Google-Motorola deal for the Mobile Economy and the Smart Green Economy which are growing together faster than ever. This deal makes Google really powerful but it will also make the users more powerful due to ubiquitous intelligent devices enabling a more sustainable lifestyle.
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- May
2011
Sustainability in everything we do – Michael Bueltmann presents Nokia’s Sustainability Management
Sustainability in everything we do – that’s one of the key principles of Nokia’s Sustainability Management presented by Michael Bueltmann, Managing Director (Public & Legal Affairs) of Nokia Germany. Another green success factor is lifecycle thinking, i.e. measuring and optimising the product carbon footprint across the whole product lifecycle. This includes the management of recycling processes. Michael says the key problem is the laziness of consumers who prefer to keep old devices at home. Here’s my idea: Renting smartphones instead of selling them and offering a reward for returning the old device to upgrade to the new one. Easy device upgrading also accelerates the rollout of new innovations.
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- April
2011
Ecosummit TV ECO11 Mix 1.0
Ane Mari Aakernes, Gernot Toegel and Jan Michael Hess have been busy producing Ecosummit TV during the last 10 days. Our first Ecosummit TV ECO11 Mix offers you some funky 10 minutes of ECO11 experience including many speakers, startups, investors and participants. A great opportunity to relive Ecosummit 2011 on 24-25 March in Berlin. The groovy Jazz music you can hear is the song “Lost in Bogota” by Erik Truffaz on his new album “In Between”. When shall we do the next Ecosummit to celebrate and accelerate the Smart Green Economy?
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