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installed so far, provide better lighting for employees (people). The third
major project that GE has undertaken for the last 15 years has been their
support of a “Pollution Prevention/Energy Efficiency Team” that includes
six engineers and chemists focused on cost-effective reduction of GE’s
“environmental releases and greenhouse gases.”
So what is GE doing for us?

Good citizenship is our way of life. A natural part of what we do at GE.

Bob corcoran
Vice President—Corporate Citizenship

They are being good corporate citizens with green projects like:

• They are helping in health care in Cambodia by donating critical
medical equipment.
• In 2008, GE and the GE Foundation donated $1.2 million to address the
crisis in Darfur and more than $5 million in assistance to the region.

Africa is a continent where we can help people with some of our most inno-
vative products.
Brackett Dennison III
Senior Vice President and General Counsel

An important part of the commitment was $500,000 in health care
equipment to support International Medical Corps’s efforts in Darfur, the
Central African Republic (CAR), and Chad. Learn firsthand the difference
these donations are having on a population in the middle of a humanitar-
ian crisis by going to http://gereports.com/ges-medical-equipment-hits-
the-ground-in-africa.
GE certainly is a diverse company. One of their products, Centricity
Electronic Medical Records (EMR), is helping hospitals and physicians
provide better health care by being able to quickly and accurately access
patients’ medical records (people). For the planet, GE produces emission-
monitoring equipment and emission control technology. It is also one of the
largest suppliers of wind turbines in the world. According to a December
2009 press release, “GE Receives $1.4 Billion Contract to Supply Turbines
for Largest Wind Farm Ever Built in the US—Caithness Energy’s Oregon
Wind Farm to Use GE’s Advanced 2.5xl Machines.” The project, to be
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