About the Blog

The Blog is dedicated to a global discussion about the ideas, actions and products shaping what we believe will be a cleaner, brighter future.

Two major social issues are shaping our time: energy and the environment. How energy is created, used and even stored must be changed to a more environmentally sustainable model. We are excited to be a part of this important conversation about the role clean technology can play in saving our planet, while also creating jobs and other economic benefits and promoting energy independence. We hope you will join us in contributing to this important dialogue, sharing your thoughts with us as we work together to make the world a better place.

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Discussion Guidelines and Rules of Engagement
This Blog is intended to facilitate respectful dialogue regarding emerging clean technologies and related energy, environmental and social issues. We look forward to growing our Blog community with your feedback and participation. For the Blog to be a useful communication tool, we need everyone to observe certain rules. Please make sure that all comments relate to the subject of this Blog. Keep in mind that you are responsible for what you post, and you shouldn’t post anything inappropriate or that violates or infringes someone else’s rights. We will screen comments, and some comments may not be posted or may be removed. For further information see “Terms of Use” below.

The following general topics are covered in this blog:

Innovations
Each day Applied Materials employees around the world are working to create technologies and services that improve the way people live and work. For the past few years we’ve focused some of our engineering talents on developing products that will enable the world to more effectively generate clean energy as well as more efficiently use energy. The Clean Tech, Applied Blog is the voice of our team – our technologists and global workforce – who strive to make planet Earth a cleaner place to live.

Environment
Some of our brightest minds at Applied will provide their insights into how clean technology can positively affect the global environment from job creation to how energy is created, conserved and stored. We know the enormous impact that conservation of resources can have – especially as those very resources become more precious and constrained. Our goal is to create scaleable manufacturing solutions that will put natural resources to more effective use.

Public Policy
In the policy section of the Applied Blog, we will weigh-in on relevant clean tech global public policy issues and dialogues, providing perspectives on market-changing decisions that will drive how clean technology is implemented, supported and funded at government levels around the world.

The Business
The Blog will highlight the activities taking place at Applied to make our operations more resource efficient. This commitment drives Applied to explore ways to use all resources more effectively and to use our R&D resources to further drive our commitment to making a cleaner environment possible.

Right Things
The Clean Tech, Applied Blog will showcase how the people behind our products and technologies are also committed to making their communities better places to live through their donations and volunteer activities. This blog will provide a window into the Applied workplace and what it takes to be a leading technology provider.

For additional information see our Blog Terms of Use.