Strive for green

This Wednesday at Santa Clara University, the Silicon Valley Leadership Group (SVLG) group will host “Clean and Green,” a community forum aimed at presenting and discussing the greening of business in Silicon Valley. Each year SVLG releases a future projections report, and this year the major focus was on “clean tech” and how it is becoming big business in the area. All the corporate focus on greening this last hear has been a welcome development, and it seems companies are realizing that striving to be green is not just socially conscious, but economically beneficial as well.

Take a look at the mission statement on the SLVG website:
The Silicon Valley Leadership Group is organized to involve principal officers and senior managers of member companies in a cooperative effort with local, regional, state, and federal government officials to address major public policy issues affecting the economic health and quality of life in Silicon Valley.

Their mission does not directly mention environment, but given the focus of this year’s report and forum, its obvious they consider environment one of the “major public policy issues affecting the economic health and quality of life in Silicon Valley.” Hopefully corporations across the rest of the country will follow their lead and take real and meaningful steps to ensure a better future for all of us.