Innovate with
Purpose
Purpose
By 2030, we intend to innovate our products to enhance the lives of 500 million people and meet underserved societal needs, while improving the lifecycle impact on the environment of our products and sourcing.
Relevant UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals
Our products are a force for good in the world — helping people climb up out of poverty, improving the environment, building and maintaining vital infrastructure, making our cities more sustainable — especially when produced with responsible consumption in mind.
“Water from the Sun” —
Solar-Powered Wells in India
We are piloting an eco-friendly, low cost solar-powered water pump in India. This product-based innovation drives social good, helping to alleviate poverty and hunger in areas that have little or no access to the electrical grid. Improved irrigation is allowing farmers to boost yields and farm income from high value crops. Our solar water pumps are connected to IoT devices which transmit data back so we are able to measure use and productivity, look for trends and analyze against weather patterns.
The direct current (DC) pumps run on batteries charged by solar panels. They are replacing both diesel pumps (polluting, relatively expensive to run, hard to maintain) and, where the electrical grid extends, alternating current (AC) pumps which run on government-subsidized electricity. In rural areas, the grid is not robust or reliable. Typically, the power comes on at any moment without warning, day or night, for an hour or two, and that is the only time the farmer has to operate any machinery, including water pumps. Farming families attach a light bulb to the powerlines and keep watch to know when the power comes on.
对当地农业社区和大社会的利益无数。太阳能井能够实现可扩展的阶梯，以进一步创新，可以促进用于转型性农业的伙伴关系，从而发挥滴灌，机械化农业，冷库和数字配送网络的可能性。太阳能电池板产生的过量能量可以返回到电网和/或用于关闭电网的房屋。至于环境，太阳能井的井减少碳排放，同时采取防止水位耗尽的预防措施。太阳能井将每年取代1.1亿吨CO2emissions from AC pumps and 20 million tons from diesel pumps.
This profound but simple change will have multiple, concentric effects, leading to the embrace and spread of mechanical, electrical and digital means of transforming how food is grown and how the people who grow it live.
农民获得
产量
Farm Income
Sell-to-Grid Income
Power for Off-Grid Homes
Society Gains
Hunger
Poverty
Fuel Imports
Health
Education
Employment
Planet Gains
Water Table
CO2
Curtailing India’s Annual CO2Emissions by 6%
Scalable Innovation Ladder
Solar Irrigation
Pumps
Solar Micro
Grid
Solar Home
Appliances
Solar Reverse Osmosis
System
Addressing Unmet Societal Needs
Circular Design
Increasingly, we design products for circularity — across the entire lifecycle of the product and its components — encompassing material selection, use and end-of-life considerations. Our major tool brands, including DEWALT, STANLEY, BOSTITCH and BLACK+DECKER, have introduced a recycling policy. When a tool reaches end-of-life, the user can send it to our Towson, Maryland, location and we will properly recycle the product. We’ve partnered with a recycler certified to both the Responsible Recycling (R2) Practices and the Recycling Industry Operating StandardsTM值(RIOSTM值). If users prefer to recycle their products locally, we direct them to Earth 911’s recycling search website to find a local recycler.http://search.earth911.com/
Sustainable Sourcing
We aspire to source our raw materials, finished goods, components and services from suppliers that meet our evolving sustainability criteria. We have already established initial criteria and improved related supplier performance. By 2020, 80% of our supplier spend will have completed CDP Supply Chain Climate Change assessments. We will be instituting additional criteria related to water usage and other factors that go beyond greenhouse gas emissions. We are committed to working with our suppliers of products, goods and services to reduce supply chain emissions by 35%, by 2030.
