The Executive’s Daily Green Briefing

Archive for January, 2007

NFL Plants Trees, Buys RECs & Feels Heat

NFL Plants Trees, Buys RECs & Feels Heat
The National Football League is planting 3,000 mangroves and other trees native to Florida in an effort to tackle the the Super ...

Legislation Would Ban Incandescent Lightbulbs, Favor CFLs

Legislation Would Ban Incandescent Lightbulbs, Favor CFLs
California Assemblyman Lloyd Levine is expected to introduce legislation this week to make his state the first to ban incandescent lightbulbs, Reuters ...

Ricoh Launches Tree Planting Offset Program

Ricoh Launches Tree Planting Offset Program
Ricoh UK has joined the growing list of companies implementing tree growing initiatives by offering its customers the opportunity to plant ...

London Suburb’s Parking Fees Based on CO2 Emissions

London Suburb’s Parking Fees Based on CO2 Emissions
Officials in Richmond, a London suburb with few provate garages and driveways, are basing annual parking fees on how much carbon dioxide ...

Survey: Microsoft has Best Corporate Reputation

Survey: Microsoft has Best Corporate Reputation
Microsoft is the company with the best corporate reputation, according to Harris Interactive's Reputation Quotient survey, USA Today reports. ...

HelioVolt, Exeltech Collaborate on CIGS-Enabled Solar Energy Systems

HelioVolt, Exeltech Collaborate on CIGS-Enabled Solar Energy Systems
HelioVolt and Exeltech are collaborating to provide turnkey systems for solar energy generation. The collaboration will draw on HelioVolt’s FASST technology for ...

Canada’s Environment Commissioner Fired, Too Environmental

Canada’s Environment Commissioner Fired, Too Environmental
Canada's federal environment commissioner Johanne Gelinas, the country's top ranking environment offical, has been fired, Maclean's reports. Sources said auditor general Sheila Fraser ...

GSA Awards $29 Million ESPC to Honeywell for FDA Project

GSA Awards $29 Million ESPC to Honeywell for FDA Project
The U.S. General Services Administration is spending nearly $30 Million to upgrade building systems and reduce energy costs at the new ...

Green Party Warns of Vista ‘Landfill Effect’

Green Party Warns of Vista ‘Landfill Effect’
The UK's Green Party claims Microsoft's latest operating system, Vista, could lead to a mass upgrade of PCs that will result in ...

San Jose Switches 5,600 Traffic Signals to LED

San Jose Switches 5,600 Traffic Signals to LED
New LEDs have replaced incandescent bulbs at thousands of traffic signals in San Jose, California making the lights burn brighter, last longer ...

Kodak Joins Chicago Climate Exchange

Kodak Joins Chicago Climate Exchange
Kodak has commited to reducing greenhouse gas emissions 20 percent from 2003-2008 time period. From 2003 to 2005, Kodak reduced these emissions 10 percent. The release ...

BMW Eliminates Manufacturing Waste Water

BMW Eliminates Manufacturing Waste Water
BMW is using a new recycling process that treats all manufacturing waste water and feeds it back into the production system. The ...

Utilities Fail to Respond to Investor’s GHG Emissions Questions

Utilities Fail to Respond to Investor’s GHG Emissions Questions
Less than half of all listed global electric utilities have responded to an investors request for information regarding their emissions of greenhouse ...

Wells Fargo Leads EPA’s Top 25 Green Power List

Wells Fargo Leads EPA’s Top 25 Green Power List
For the first time, a corporation ­ leads EPA's national Top 25 list of green power purchasers. Wells Fargo & Company claimed ...

Vattenfall, Alcan, Duke Energy, IETA Push for Global Emissions Trading Market

Vattenfall, Alcan, Duke Energy, IETA Push for Global Emissions Trading Market
Vattenfall AB, Alcan Inc., Duke Energy Corporation and the International Emissions Trading Association are cooperating to work with ...

Santa Cruz Hotels Make Move to Solar Energy

Santa Cruz Hotels Make Move to Solar Energy
Three Santa Cruz, California hotels are installing solar systems, Renewable Energy Access reports. A 22kW system installed on the Sunset Inn ...

Mayors Ask for $4 Billion Energy & Environmental Block Grant

Mayors Ask for $4 Billion Energy & Environmental Block Grant
The nation's mayors have called for $4 billion in a Energy and Environmental Block Grant to help cities combat global warming. The ...

Sun to Release First Corporate Social Responsibility Report Today

Sun to Release First Corporate Social Responsibility Report Today
Sun Microsystems plans to release its first corporate social responsibility report today, according to a blog post by Marcy Scott ...

Portfolio 21: Vestas Wind Systems Top Green Company of 2006

Portfolio 21: Vestas Wind Systems Top Green Company of 2006
Portfolio 21 has released its Top 10 financial performers among companies implementing environmental business strategies. The top performers in the fund ...

Scotts Publishes First Corporate Responsibility Report

Scotts Publishes First Corporate Responsibility Report
The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company recently published its first Corporate Responsibility Report. “ScottsMiracle-Gro must set the tone for corporate responsibility and how businesses ...

Today's News

Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

Recycling rates in the U.S. are low and getting lower. The U.S., by far the world's biggest consumer of aluminum ... continue »

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black
Measuring, Managing, Saving: Making Energy Efficiency Visible
Lean And Clean With Green Purchasing
‘Recyclable’ Is So Last-Century
Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of financial institution executives say they plan to build new or undergo a major remodel of an existing ...

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Consumers Want Brands To Solve Climate Crisis
Belief In Global Warming Slips
U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior
Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

This promotional video features restaurateurs discussing sustainable solutions and Conserve, the environmental initiative of the National Restaurant Association....

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Polar Bears On Thin Ice, Listed As ‘Threatened’
HP Exec On Product Takeback
Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Consumers Reward Good Corporate Behavior - Unless There’s A Big Sale

Green Meetings Don’t Have To Cost More Green

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Emissions

Mars Snackfood Unwraps Landfill Gas Project

Honeywell, Airbus, JetBlue, IAE Developing Aviation Biofuel

EnerNOC Buys Offsets To Remain Carbon Neutral

Hi-Tech

EPS Developing Energy Use Monitoring System

Dell To Increase PC Energy Efficiency 25% By 2010

HP Exec On Product Takeback

Efficiency

Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

ASHRAE Best Design Practices Could Cut Warehouse Energy Use 30%

Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Manufacturing

Dupont, Genencor Invest $140M In Cellulosic Ethanol Joint Venture

Smart Papers Installing Honeywell Biomass Co-Gen Plant

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Voluntary Carbon Market Tripled In 2007, Hit $331M

Enel Buys $232 Million Of Carbon Credits From China’s Wuhan Steel

RGGI Cap And Trade To Go Online Sept. 10

CSR Reports

Starbucks Plans Renewable Energy Buy, Green Building Standards

Brazilian, Indian Companies Dominate GRI Reporting Awards

CSR: Chevron To Invest $2.5B in Alternative, Renewable Energy Tech

Major Players

Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

With $100M, Duke Energy Joins Rooftop Solar Movement

Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market

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