Tuesday, October 16, 2007
SWOP homepageCorrales Comment 10/12/07: 'Green' Excellence Award to Intel Questionned
An excerpt:
...Joining the dialog last month was a former judge and examiner for the Green Zia awards, Lena Hakim, who said the 2001 award to Intel was the most controversial ever handed out. “I have been an examiner for the Green Zia since its inception, and Intel was the most controversial award, as they had very little physical proof of P2 [pollution prevention],” Hakim wrote on September 10.
“Their application [for the excellence award] was written very well. I have examined Los Alamos National Laboratories, General Electric, McKinley paper and many other applications, but Intel was the most controversial of all because they had few physical examples of P2 efforts.”
Hakim said she had also reported abuses of the Green Zia program to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, “but they have taken no action.”
Writing for The Santa Fe Reporter this summer, Hakim explained why she had become disenchanted with the Green Zia program. “Green Zia was supposed to be about assisting companies in becoming more sustainable, and instead the types of corporations which apply do it to clean up their reputations rather than seriously commit to green changes.
“The Excellence level should be reserved only to blatantly obvious green companies who are providing absolute sustainable ways to conduct business.
“It was a mistake, in my humble opinion, to grant Excellence to Intel. It takes away from the worthy Excellence award of the Durango-McKinley paper Company. I believe most people in New Mexico were disgusted when NMED gave Intel an Excellence.”
One of those receiving the e-mailings, Fred Marsh, former spokesman for CRCAW, called for Bartlit to resign. “We have always said Intel’s Green Zia awards were just an unearned and shameless payoff from New Mexico politicians who want continued access to Intel’s deep pockets. Our assertions have now been confirmed by a Green Zia judge and inspector.
“Yet Mr. Bartlit continues to staunchly defend Intel’s sham Green Zia award in his chosen role as an Intel cheerleader. The honorable course of action for Mr. Bartlit would now be to resign his CEWG position, to be replaced by someone who could provide CEWG with the unbiased leadership it deserves.”
Read the whole story here.
...Joining the dialog last month was a former judge and examiner for the Green Zia awards, Lena Hakim, who said the 2001 award to Intel was the most controversial ever handed out. “I have been an examiner for the Green Zia since its inception, and Intel was the most controversial award, as they had very little physical proof of P2 [pollution prevention],” Hakim wrote on September 10.
“Their application [for the excellence award] was written very well. I have examined Los Alamos National Laboratories, General Electric, McKinley paper and many other applications, but Intel was the most controversial of all because they had few physical examples of P2 efforts.”
Hakim said she had also reported abuses of the Green Zia program to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, “but they have taken no action.”
Writing for The Santa Fe Reporter this summer, Hakim explained why she had become disenchanted with the Green Zia program. “Green Zia was supposed to be about assisting companies in becoming more sustainable, and instead the types of corporations which apply do it to clean up their reputations rather than seriously commit to green changes.
“The Excellence level should be reserved only to blatantly obvious green companies who are providing absolute sustainable ways to conduct business.
“It was a mistake, in my humble opinion, to grant Excellence to Intel. It takes away from the worthy Excellence award of the Durango-McKinley paper Company. I believe most people in New Mexico were disgusted when NMED gave Intel an Excellence.”
One of those receiving the e-mailings, Fred Marsh, former spokesman for CRCAW, called for Bartlit to resign. “We have always said Intel’s Green Zia awards were just an unearned and shameless payoff from New Mexico politicians who want continued access to Intel’s deep pockets. Our assertions have now been confirmed by a Green Zia judge and inspector.
“Yet Mr. Bartlit continues to staunchly defend Intel’s sham Green Zia award in his chosen role as an Intel cheerleader. The honorable course of action for Mr. Bartlit would now be to resign his CEWG position, to be replaced by someone who could provide CEWG with the unbiased leadership it deserves.”
Read the whole story here.
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fascinating! who else participates in Intel's Community Environmental Working Group? is it public information?
do you want to get put on the email list? it is fascinating. there's more on that list to mine for stories, that's for sure...
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