Siemens

Siemens AG (NYSE: SI) is a global powerhouse in electronics and electrical engineering, and operates in the industry, energy and healthcare sectors. For more than 160 years, Siemens has built a reputation for leading-edge innovation and the quality of its products, services and solutions. Siemens employs more than 60,000 people throughout all 50 states and Puerto Rico and 400,000 worldwide. At Siemens, while we help our customers create a better world every day, we are also committed to minimizing our own impact on the environment through our policies, practices and performance. We recognize our own responsibility to our communities and to the environment and that is why we have invested so much in our Environmental Portfolio (http://www.siemens.com/responsibility/en/environment/portfolio/). The Siemens Environmental Portfolio accounts for nearly a third of our total revenue, making Siemens the world’s largest supplier of green products and solutions. Our Environmental Mission:

• We have a responsibility to the wider community and are committed to environmental protection.
• In our global operations, we are concerned with sustaining the natural resources essential to life.
• We view the economy, environmental protection and social responsibility as carrying equal weight.
• We support the dissemination of knowledge needed for sustainable development.
• For us, sustainable development in environmental protection means careful use of natural resources.
• It is our aim to avoid pollution altogether or to reduce it to a minimum.

Siemens employees were incredibly motivated by the Acts of Green initiative and worked to mobilize their coworkers and communities. In Boston, Siemens employees started a 501-c3 non-profit to use oysters to clean the waters of Boston Harbor. In Malvern, PA and Iselin, NJ, employees combined Take Your Child To Work Day with Earth Day celebrations to help educate their youth on how their day to day activities affect the environment. To give aid to victims of the Haiti earthquake in an environmentally sound manner, Siemens donated 35 portable alternative energy generators each used to power 35 homes of 6 to 8 people, 30 skyhydrants serving 500 people each and 1320 flashlights. Siemens businesses were also motivated to help make a difference. Siemens Corporate decided to push recycling in DC by converting a number of bus stations into recycling centers for the month of April. All Siemens advertisements, in print, on the web and on the radio, included Environmentally Friendly themes. The STEM academy, a Science, Technology, Engineering and Math education partnership between the Siemens Foundation and Discovery, produced a live webinar: Earth Day: Celebrating Our Past and Future Efforts to Conserve Our Oceans Presented by Philippe Cousteau. They received participation from over 20,000 students.