Jane Wales, President and CEO of the World Affairs Council of Northern California, interviews Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, along with Dr. Larry Brilliant, Executive Director of Google.org, at the Global Philanthropy Forum's 6th Annual Conference, hosted at the Googleplex in Silicon...
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Featuring Jim Woolsey, Chelsea Sexton, Larry Brilliant and others, this video describes plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, vehicle to grid (V2G) as part of Google.org’s RechargeIT project.
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I’ll tell you a little bit now about our five core initiatives. We started off with those 10,000 ideas. We boiled them down to 900 concrete initiatives, and then we held the equivalent of a mock court which went on for about six months, where anyone who wanted to bring forth an initiative that w...
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And I really am very optimistic because what has happened against this background of all of these grave issues that we face, largely out of Stanford and colleges like Stanford, a new breed of entrepreneurs and philanthropists have emerged; the Pierre Omidyars, the Jeff Skolls, the Mark Benioffs,...
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So when I got to Google, Larry and Sergei had created this organization called Google.org. They tried to do something new. Instead of making a 501(c)(3), a regular foundation that used tax advantage money, instead, they made a pledge to shareholders that they would put 1% of Google’s equity, 1% ...
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So the question is, "Does Google.org train other companies?" First of all, I want to say that we stole the idea of Google.org from another company, from Salesforce.com and Mark Benioff. So Mark, if you’re listening, thank you. It was his idea to have the 1% equity and the 1% profit and the staff...
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We talk about strategic philanthropy in a way that’s different than charity and a way that's different than just giving money. It's trying to find something in the world that is wrong or could be better that you can fix, and use all the skills that you're learning right now in school, at Stanfor...
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The problem is that if you are basing an initiative on money that comes either through Congress or through a foundation, it is not reliable. It’s not sustainable. We call Congress the Disease-of-the-Month Congress because they change their mind everyday. The Cost-of-the-Month Congress if you loo...
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Google is the dominant name in Internet search engine wars, but all that data being processed uses a lot of power. That’s why Google has vowed to become carbon neutral with their data centers, experimenting with hydroelectricity and solar power. Now Google wants to turn renewable energy into a n...
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A Climate Change Conversation with Google Founders & Dr. Larry Brilliant of Google.org, moderated by Tom Friedman, held at the World Economic Forum's Annual General Meeting in Davos, January 2008.
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google.org ,als ,umweltschuetzer! ,google inc., engagiert sich stark im Umweltschutz, mit eignen Generatoren usw. Ist Google,Inc. von vielen als der 'Spion' im Internet bezeichnet im Grunde vielleicht nicht noch aktiver als viel selbst ernannte Umweltschuetzer die auf der Strasse mit Zigaretten ...
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Google.org invited the non-profits attending Clinton Global Initiative to a half-day technology training on tools to improve their operations and enhance their websites. Romanus Berg from Ashoka moderated the session and Suzanne DiBianca and others from Salesforce talked about how non-profits can...
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