Intel has set some ambitious new sustainability goals: By 2020,
it wants to reduce direct greenhouse gas emissions by 10 percent
per chip, cut water use to below 2010 levels on a per-chip
basis, decrease the amount of chemical waste it generates by 10
percent from 2010 levels, eliminate all chemical waste going to
landfills and recycle 90 percent of its solid waste. But it
certainly has its work cut out. In the company's 2011 corporate
responsibility report, released today, Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) said
it didn't meet all of its previous goals. It has significantly
cut its greenhouse-gas emissions and it's making more energy-
efficient products – but it also has been using more water and
producing more chemical waste. Cutting its carbon footprint
Intel reduced its carbon footprint by more than 60 percent from
2007 -- tripling its goal of cutting emissions 20 percent by
2012 – via measures such as installing solar panels and buying
other green energy. Even more impressively, it did this while
growing revenue 41 per