Intel and Conflict Minerals

[Okamisan]

The whole concept of "conflict minerals" goes well beyond blood diamonds, and covers materials as relatively commonplace as tin, as rare as tantalum and as precious as gold. Intel has truly been a leader in the effort to not only say they can do business without conflict minerals, but to prove it can indeed be done. Now those efforts are being recognized:

Intel Publicly Sets Goal to Make Conflict-Free Chip by 2013 (from the blog of theEnough Project)

It always feels good for me to see how my employer is making the effort to be a good and responsible corporate citizen.

[seian]

That's very cool. And not an easy task, considering it's impossible to live without unwillingly contributing to some kind of harm elsewhere, just by being a consumer. It's great when you can be proud of the efforts of where you work.

[Okamisan]

It's true; the fact that I can be proud of my employer without really compromising my liberal values is another reason why I feel genuinely blessed to have the job I do, for the employer I have. They're not perfect, of course -- the fact that there are no unions among Intel employees is testament to that -- but they are always in there trying to do the right thing. And they've set an excellent example for other large corporations, that you can be responsible toward your employees and the environment, and still make a heck of a lot of money doing it.