The Executive’s Daily Green Briefing

Archive for June, 2007

HSBC To Spend $90 Million To Reduce Environmental Impact

HSBC To Spend $90 Million To Reduce Environmental Impact
HSBC will spend $90 million over five years on a "Global Environmental Efficiency Program" to reduce the bank’s environmental impact through ...

PG&E Customers Can Pay Extra To Offset Emissions

PG&E Customers Can Pay Extra To Offset Emissions
Pacific Gas & Electric says its residential and business customers can voluntarily join a ClimateSmart program that will calculate a ...

Ford Issues Sustainability Report

Ford Issues Sustainability Report
Ford Motor Company has released its latest sustainability report. The company reports a reduction in global energy use by 27 percent and water use ...

Dell To Sell Advanced Cooling Systems To Data Centers

Dell To Sell Advanced Cooling Systems To Data Centers
Dell and Emerson Network Power have struck a deal to sell advanced cooling systems and services to data center owners, ...

JPMorgan Taps William Daley To Head New CSR Office

JPMorgan Taps William Daley To Head New CSR Office
JPMorgan Chase has named William Daley to head its new Office of Corporate Social Responsibility. Daley also joins the firm's Operating ...

Systematic Sustainability Requires Coordination Across Biz Units

Systematic Sustainability Requires Coordination Across Biz Units
Shifting to a systematic, sustainable approach to doing business is challenging to put into practice because change within any organization is hard ...

Switzerland To Tax CO2 Emissions

Switzerland To Tax CO2 Emissions
Switzerland will introduce a tax - which it likes to refer to as an incentive - on carbon dioxide emissions from January ...

TNT Express Discusses Strategy To Combat Climate Change

TNT Express Discusses Strategy To Combat Climate Change
Speaking at the CSR Summit in Dubai, Mike Patrick, Director of CSR, TNT Express said that there is a need for ...

Coke, Yahoo Steal Thunder From Live Earth’s Sponsors

Coke, Yahoo Steal Thunder From Live Earth’s Sponsors
Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Yahoo, and MSN have the highest awareness of any brands in connection with the upcoming Live Earth concerts, according to ...

Sony ‘Biggest Loser’ In Greenpeace’s Latest Electronics Guide

Sony ‘Biggest Loser’ In Greenpeace’s Latest Electronics Guide
Apple has moved up Greenpeace's latest Guide to Greener Electronics as a result of Steve Job's Greener Apple pledge to phase ...

WM To Spend $400 Million On Landfill Gas-To-Energy Facilities

WM To Spend $400 Million On Landfill Gas-To-Energy Facilities
Waste Management Inc. is rolling out an initiative over the next five years that will create an additional 60 renewable energy ...

Barclays’ Suppliers Fill Out CSR Questionnaire

Barclays’ Suppliers Fill Out CSR Questionnaire
Barclays has given a new corporate social responsibility questionnaire to 57 of the group's "medium to high-risk" suppliers, Supply Management reports. When ...

Ford, Chrysler Join United States Climate Action Partnership

Ford, Chrysler Join United States Climate Action Partnership
Ford Motor Co. and the Chrysler Group have joined the United States Climate Action Partnership, AP reports. General Motors joined ...

Vodafone Releases CSR Report

Vodafone Releases CSR Report
Vodafone has released its corporate responsibility report. The network carbon dioxide emissions per unit of data transmitted has reduced by 29 percent. Total ...

Fujifilm To Power Manufacturing Facility With Methane

Fujifilm To Power Manufacturing Facility With Methane
Fujifilm will begin using methane gas from a South Carolina landfill to power its nearby manufacturing center, CNET reports. By ...

Keen Launches Consumer Campaign To Fund Sustainability Ideas

Keen has launched Hybrid.Stand, a consumer campaign that will fund sustainability ideas and initiatives.  Keen says ...

U.S. Firms Slow To Join U.N.’s Global Compact

U.S. Firms Slow To Join U.N.’s Global Compact
U.S. firms have been slow to join a U.N. initiative on social and environmental responsibility in business because of perceptions it has ...

PSE&G Investing In More Energy Efficient Transformers, Electrical Wires

PSE&G Investing In More Energy Efficient Transformers, Electrical Wires
PSE&G says it will use more energy efficient primary and secondary wires for new overhead installations, install more energy efficient transformers ...

Big 4 Labels Make Green Moves

Big 4 Labels Make Green Moves
The biggest brands across the music business are changing their environmental habits, MediaPost reports. Every major label is on board in one ...

Qantas To Offer Travellers Way To Offset Emissions

Qantas To Offer Travellers Way To Offset Emissions
Qantas will offer a way for travellers to pay extra to offset the carbon emissions caused by their flights, The Sydney Morning Herald ...

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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