NEW YORK (Reuters) - With the technology industry reconsidering how much energy it uses and whether it can find ways to live greenly (see story ID:nN21445323), executives attending the Reuters Global Technology, Media and Telecoms Summit this week were asked to describe what they are doing in their own lives to reduce their carbon footprint.
Here are some of their answers:
RICK SIMONSON, CFO, NOKIA (NOK1V.HE: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz)(NOK.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz):
"One of my daughters just went vegan. We literally went and tried to figure out what's the carbon footprint of that. So I'm learning."
MIKE SPLINTER, CEO, APPLIED MATERIALS (AMAT.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz):
"My kids think I'm nuts now because I'm changing every light bulb in our home to compact fluorescents. What I'm finding is that you never go and count all your light bulbs until you're actually going to change them all. I first counted the ones we used the most and got to 50 and found another 100 light bulbs that are all over the place.
"My wife is driving a Prius, my daughter is driving a Prius. I call my wife now the heating and cooling police."
BILL WATKINS, CEO, SEAGATE STX.N:
"I'm actually doing nothing ... I get on a private jet and fly to New York, so it's kind of hard for me to talk about separating my cans from plastic. Continued...
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