The Executive’s Daily Green Briefing

Archive for March, 2007

Honda, Tesco, Goldman Sachs Among Top 10 ‘Green Giants’

Honda, Tesco, Goldman Sachs Among Top 10 ‘Green Giants’
Fortune magazine has published a special report “Going Green” which includes a list of ten companies that the editors feel go beyond ...

Meyer Installs Solar Power System

Meyer Installs Solar Power System
Meyer Corporation, the largest cookware company in the U.S., has installed a 580kW solar-electric power system on the roof of its Solano County, ...

Carbon Offset Companies Criticized, TerraPass Responds

Carbon Offset Companies Criticized, TerraPass Responds
A close look at several carbon offset transactions - including those involving the Oscar presenters and Vail Resorts - reveals that some deals ...

BASF Publishes 2006 Corporate Report

BASF Publishes 2006 Corporate Report
BASF has published its 2006 Corporate Report, pointing to its three dimensions of sustainability - the economy, the environment and social responsibility. The ...

PR Must Tout CSR Accomplishments

PR Must Tout CSR Accomplishments
Many companies suffer not from a negative public perception, but from a lack of recognition of their CSR activities, according to a ...

ADVERTISERS

SC Johnson Announces New GHG Emissions Reduction Goal

SC Johnson Announces New GHG Emissions Reduction Goal
SC Johnson has committed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from its U.S. operations by eight percent from 2005 by the end of 2010. In ...

Corporate America’s Love Affair with Green Power More Than PR Fluff

Corporate America’s Love Affair with Green Power More Than PR Fluff
A recent CNNMoney.com article asks, how much of recent corporate renewable energy annoucements are PR fluff? "It's 98 percent real and 2 ...

WEC Calls for Nominations for Corporate Sustainable Development Award

WEC Calls for Nominations for Corporate Sustainable Development Award
The World Environment Center wants nominations for the 24th WEC Gold Medal for International Corporate Achievement in Sustainable Development. Only global manufacturing, ...

Alcoa, DuPont, Merrill Lynch, Others Sign ‘Climate Call to Action’

Alcoa, DuPont, Merrill Lynch, Others Sign ‘Climate Call to Action’
A dozen U.S. companies and dozens of institutional investors managing $4 trillion in assets have called on Washington to enact strong federal legislation to ...

Small Business Energy Efficiency Quiz

Small Business Energy Efficiency Quiz
With the right upgrades, the typical small business can cut its energy bill up to 30 percent and see a payback on ...

SF Giants Installing Solar Panels at AT&T Park

SF Giants Installing Solar Panels at AT&T Park
The San Francisco Giants and PG&E are planning to install 590 solar panels around AT&T Park to generate 123 kilowatts of power ...

Bradford & Bingley Release 2006 CSR Report

Bradford & Bingley Release 2006 CSR Report
Bradford & Bingley's 2006 CSR report is now available on its website. Bradford & Bingley became carbon neutral in January and this year’s ...

Intel Releases Energy Star Implementation Guide

Intel Releases Energy Star Implementation Guide
Intel has released an implementation guide, developed with the EPA, that helps PC manufacturers and system integrators deliver ENERGY STAR-qualified PCs ...

Flexcar Enters Baltimore Market

Flexcar Enters Baltimore Market
Flexcar has expanded to the city of Baltimore through a partnership with The Johns Hopkins University. The initial group of four ...

HP Releases Global Citizenship Report

HP Releases Global Citizenship Report
HP's FY06 Global Citizenship Report is now available on the company's website. According to ReportAlert , HP's major global citizenship accomplishments in ...

IndyCar Goes 100% Ethanol, EPIC Plans National Marketing Campaign

IndyCar Goes 100% Ethanol, EPIC Plans National Marketing Campaign
IndyCar Series is poised to make motorsports history when it turns the first competitive laps with its 3.5-liter Honda Indy V-8 ...

Lennar Increases Number of Solar Homes, Gets $16 Million in Rebates

Lennar Increases Number of Solar Homes, Gets $16 Million in Rebates
Weeks after unveiling plans to build 650 solar-powered homes in Roseville, Miami-based Lennar Corp. said  it will build 1,254 more in the ...

SunPower Tops List of Best Solar Panel Manufacturers

SunPower Tops List of Best Solar Panel Manufacturers
SunPower makes the best solar panels in the world and Kaco makes the best inverters in the world and Direct Power ...

Peterbilt, Eaton, Wal-Mart Partner on Heavy-Duty Truck

Peterbilt Motors Company and Eaton Corporation have jointly developed a hybrid, heavy-duty vehicle based ...

Does Anyone Read Your CSR Report?

Does Anyone Read Your CSR Report?
In the first week following Sun's January 29 release of its 2006 CSR Report, the report was only downloaded from Sun's ...

Today's News

The Evolving Green Challenge for Manufacturing

The Evolving Green Challenge for Manufacturing

Unless you have been incommunicado for the last few years, you realize that the focus on green manufacturing has swept across Europe, ... continue »

COP 15 Offers Communications Opportunities
Greening the Apparel Supply Chain: Tapping the Power of Collective Leverage
Sustainability and its Impact on Brand Value
The Advertising Industry, Sustainability and the Bottom Line
Cause Marketing Can Result In Sales Lift

Cause Marketing Can Result In Sales Lift

Cause-related marketing can exponentially increase sales, in one case as much as 74 percent, resulting in millions of dollars in potential revenue ...

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$5.2 Billion Invested in Cleantech Since January 2007
Green Efforts Insignificant in Winning, Keeping 3PL Business
Google Says Its Data Centers Most Efficient
Geothermal Could Be Answer To Countering Climate Change

Geothermal Could Be Answer To Countering Climate Change

As the world looks for ways to counter climate change and reduce the carbon footprint, the most abundant energy source might be ...

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Miller Recycles 99.9% of Packaging Waste
Credit Crunch Could Hurt Mitsubishi’s Eco-Car Push
What’s The Price Tag For A Carbon Neutral U.S. Economy?
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Cause Marketing Can Result In Sales Lift

Green Mountain Coffee Helps Vermont Cut Energy Use

Payless ShoeSource Launching Eco-Friendly Footwear

Emissions

DHL: Carbon Neutral Supply Chains Possible, Takes Time

Dairy’s Carbon Footprint Drops to 12 Pounds Per Gallon

Toyota Announces Utah’s First LEED-certified Dealership

Hi-Tech

Top 10 Low Power Desktop PCs

Survey: Apple Most Eco-Friendly, Greenpeace Says Different

Google Says Its Data Centers Most Efficient

Efficiency

California Tops ACEEE’s State Energy Efficiency Scorecard

Coffee Bean Opens LEED-Certified Facility in Portland

Applied Materials Unveils 2 Megawatt Solar System

Manufacturing

The Evolving Green Challenge for Manufacturing

World Steel Association Publishes Sustainability Report

Greening the Apparel Supply Chain: Tapping the Power of Collective Leverage

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Financial Crisis Threatens EU’s Carbon Plans

Pepsi Bottling Group Cuts 16,000 Tons of Plastic in 2007

Gap Flips Switch On 1 Megawatt Solar Power System

CSR Reports

AT&T Releases Sustainability Report

Autodesk HQ Cuts Emissions with Lighting Upgrades

Staples Saved Over 540,000 Gallons of Diesel in 2007

Major Players

PR Agency Warned Starbucks About Wasteful Water Policy

Sun, Pfizer Surpass Carbon Reduction Goals

Green Efforts Insignificant in Winning, Keeping 3PL Business

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