The Executive’s Daily Green Briefing

Archive for March, 2007

Recent CSR Reports

March 2007 >>REI >>ABN AMRO >>Bradford & Bingley >>Akzo Nobel >>Adidas >>Starbucks >>Henkel >>Phillips >>Procter & Gamble Feb 2007 >>Sun >>Danske Bank >>Mitsubishi >>Toyota >>Scott...

Green Decisions: Weighing Today’s Bottom Line Against Future Rewards

Green Decisions: Weighing Today’s Bottom Line Against Future Rewards
Frank Gillett, a principal analyst at Forrester Research, says that admirable as HP, IBM, and other companies' purported green aspirations might be, ...

Colleges Develop Green Tech Programs to Meet Demand

Colleges Develop Green Tech Programs to Meet Demand
More U.S. college students are looking into careers in alternative energy, leading U.S. universities to add new courses on clean energy technologies ...

American Orders Fuel Efficient 737s

American Orders Fuel Efficient 737s
American Airlines will buy 47 Boeing 737 jets four years earlier than planned to begin replacing some of its oldest planes with ...

Green Resort Opens, Two More in Works

Green Resort Opens, Two More in Works
Wen-I Chang hopes to build a series of resorts that will blend environmental consciousness with the creature comforts consumers have come to ...

Fed Partnership Cuts Manufacturers Energy Consumption

Fed Partnership Cuts Manufacturers Energy Consumption
The U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute for Science and Technology have created a partnership to ...

CA City Launches Electric Vehicle Pilot Program with ZAP

CA City Launches Electric Vehicle Pilot Program with ZAP
The City of Richmond, California and Bay Area electric car company ZAP are launching a pilot fleet program to demonstrate ZAP electric ...

Telus, CVS, UNICCO Among CSR Award Winners

Telus, CVS, UNICCO Among CSR Award Winners
CVS, Telus, Nike, Newlink Communications and Timberland were among the twelve corporations that took home PR News awards for outstanding Corporate Social ...

Corporations Find It Hard To Impress Green Bloggers

Corporations Find It Hard To Impress Green Bloggers
Lloyd Alter, a blogger at Treehugger, says he first began using the term "greenwashing" about two years ago when he was upset ...

Travel Toolkit Outlines Corporate CSR Success Stories

Travel Toolkit Outlines Corporate CSR Success Stories
The Institute of Travel Management has launched a Environmental Impact Reduction Toolkit, part of ITM’s CSR initiative Project ICARUS, launched at the ...

Etheco Passes Green Power Commission to Customers

Etheco Passes Green Power Commission to Customers
In what the company describes as an industry first, the UK's Etheco is paying people to use green energy, passing all commission back ...

Northern Trust Saves Energy with VFDs

Northern Trust Saves Energy with VFDs
A project Honeywell completed at Northern Trust's Chicago headquarters that involved installing more than 40 varibale frequency drives onto air-handling motors in the building ...

HP to Reduce Energy Use 20 Percent by 2010

HP to Reduce Energy Use 20 Percent by 2010
Hewlett-Packard has set a goal to reduce its global energy use by 20 percent by 2010. To accomplish this reduction below ...

Cost Savings, Not Environment, Top Motivation for Buying Green Home

Cost Savings, Not Environment, Top Motivation for Buying Green Home
Sixty-three percent of homeowners report lower operating and maintenance costs as the key motivation behind buying a green home, according to research sponsored ...

House Passes Emissions Legislation for Shipping

House Passes Emissions Legislation for Shipping
The U.S. House of Representatives has approved legislation to to curb emissions from ships using diesel fuel, ABC News reports. Under the House ...

Virgin Trains Launches Green Marketing Blitz

Virgin Trains Launches Green Marketing Blitz
Virgin Trains this week kicks off a £3.5m marketing campaign to tell potential passengers that Pendolino trains are at least four ...

IT Departments Must Reduce, Replace & Reuse

IT Departments Must Reduce, Replace & Reuse
IT departments must exploit technology in a commercially productive way for the benefit of the entire business, and in a sustainable way ...

Carmanah’s Solar Power Systems Head to U.S. Base in Kuwait

Carmanah’s Solar Power Systems Head to U.S. Base in Kuwait
A U.S. army base in Kuwait has ordered 39 of Carmanah's stand-alone MAPPS solar power systems. They will be used by a ...

Recent RFPs

March 2007 (via CEEP) Rural Housing Economic Development Healthy Homes Demonstration Program Healthy Homes and Lead Technical Studies Healthy Homes Lead ...

Recent Incentives

March 2007 (via DSIRE)  Financial Incentives Arizona APS - Energy Efficiency Solutions for Business Trico Electric Cooperative - SunWatts Incentive Program Tucson - Permit ...

Today's News

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black

Today's combination of dwindling natural resources, economic uncertainty, and the growing threat of global warming underscores the urgent need to embrace "being ... continue »

Measuring, Managing, Saving: Making Energy Efficiency Visible
Lean And Clean With Green Purchasing
‘Recyclable’ Is So Last-Century
Successfully Enticing LOHAS Consumers to Grocery Stores
U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior

U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior

The National Geographic Society and the international polling firm GlobeScan have unveiled a new mechanism for measuring and comparing individual consumer behavior ...

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Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking
eCommerce Goes Green
82% Of Execs Say Climate Change Will Alter Their Business Models
Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Joe Sprouls gives a tour of Citigroup's $310 million Green Skyscraper.

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China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers
Customer CSR Expectations Top Of Mind For CEOs
DuPont On Sustainable Packaging
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Adam Werbach’s Answer To Consumerism’s Global Warming Blues

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Green-Themed Email Marketing Sees Big Bump

Emissions

Companies Respond To Climate Change Shareholder Resolutions

Starwood Going Green With Element Hotels

Environmental Throwdown At Duke Shareholders’ Meeting

Hi-Tech

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black

Cutting The Internet’s Carbon Footprint

Report: Data Center Energy Efficiency Needs To Double By 2012

Efficiency

Virtual Hotel Aims To Improve Industry Sustainability

Popularity Of Energy Efficiency Utilities Grows

EBay Tops List Of Largest Solar Installations In San Jose

Manufacturing

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First

China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers

IBM, GSK, Herman Miller See Healthy ROI From Green Purchasing

Carbon Offsets/RECs

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

RGGI Cap And Trade To Go Online Sept. 10

NAM, ACCF: Lieberman-Warner Bill Will Cost U.S. Big

CSR Reports

Brazilian, Indian Companies Dominate GRI Reporting Awards

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

Colgate-Palmolive Improves Production Efficiency

Major Players

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Food Services Industry Hammered On Climate Performance

HP Partners With Calif. On Print Cartridge Recycling

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