The Executive’s Daily Green Briefing

Archive for August, 2007

55% Of Companies Have ‘Green Data Center Action Plans’

About 55 percent of companies have established detailed strategies for making their data centers more energy efficient, ...

Schwarzenegger Meets With German Minister To Discuss Carbon Trading

Schwarzenegger Meets With German Minister To Discuss Carbon Trading
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Germany's foreign minister, plan to begin talks today about how California could work with the European ...

Qantas Plans September Takeoff For Carbon Offset Program

Qantas Plans September Takeoff For Carbon Offset Program
Qantas says that beginning in September, consumers and businesses will be able to purchase carbon credits to offset their carbon dioxide emissions, ...

GM Plant Eliminates Waste, Goes Landfill-Free

GM Plant Eliminates Waste, Goes Landfill-Free
General Motors' Baltimore transmission plant has reached zero landfill status. The plant is the eighth GM facility to be tagged as landfill-free.   The ...

Volkswagen To Offset Projected Emissions Of Cars

Volkswagen To Offset Projected Emissions Of Cars
Volkswagen of America plans to offset the carbon emissions of projected consumer use. From September 1, 2007, until January 2, 2008, vehicles ...

Stora Enso Installs New Sustainability Management Software

Stora Enso Installs New Sustainability Management Software
Paper, packaging and forest products company Stora Enso is installing sustainability management and reporting software from Proventia Solutions. The system ...

Ford Turns Paint Fumes Into Energy

Ford Turns Paint Fumes Into Energy
Ford Motor Co. is purchasing a fuel cell from FuelCell Energy for its Oakville, Ontario, facility to reduce paint solvent ...

Enterprise, GM, VeraSun, Kroger Step Up FlexFuel Marketing Efforts

Enterprise, GM, VeraSun, Kroger Step Up FlexFuel Marketing Efforts
Enterprise Rent-A-Car has dubbed one of its Cincinnati rental locations as an official "VE85/FlexFuel branch." On June 28, a similar VE85/FlexFuel ...

New York’s Dormitory Authority To Require LEED Standards

New York’s Dormitory Authority To Require LEED Standards
The Dormitory Authority, a New York state agency that provides financing and construction services to public and private universities and nonprofit ...

Starbucks Finds CSR Silver Lining In Box Office Failure Of Arctic Tale

Starbucks Finds CSR Silver Lining In Box Office Failure Of Arctic Tale
Arctic Tale, a Paramount Classics documentary co-financed by National Geographic Films, has only grossed roughly $600,000 domestically since its release July 25, The ...

Snyder’s Increases Efficiency, Makes Changes To Packaging, Transportation

Snyder’s Increases Efficiency, Makes Changes To Packaging, Transportation
Pretzel maker Snyder's of Hanover has increased sustainability and cost-savings by making changes to packaging specifications and the way it transports ...

Office Depot Cuts CO2 Emissions 10% Through Efficiency Upgrades

Office Depot Cuts CO2 Emissions 10% Through Efficiency Upgrades
Office Depot has reached a 10.1% absolute reduction in carbon dioxide emissions from natural gas and electricity consumed in its North American ...

ARB Issues CO2 Vehicle Emissions Instructions

ARB Issues CO2 Vehicle Emissions Instructions
The California Air Resource Board has issued a mail-out (PDF) to inform all off-road and on-road engine and vehicle manufacturers ...

UPS Pushes Paperless Billing, Sort Of

UPS Pushes Paperless Billing, Sort Of
With less than one percent of UPS's small- to medium-sized business customers using the electronic billing option, UPS recently surveyed its customers to find ...

Airlines Kiss Paper Tickets Goodbye

Airlines Kiss Paper Tickets Goodbye
The global airlines body IATA has placed its last order for paper tickets, CNET reports. "In just 278 more days, ...

Citigroup Plans $232 Million LEED Data Center

Citigroup Plans $232 Million LEED Data Center
Citigroup plans to build a $232 million LEED-certified data center in Frankfurt, Greener Computing reports. The data center, which the ...

SC Johnson Cuts GHG Emissions With Cogeneration

SC Johnson Cuts GHG Emissions With Cogeneration
SC Johnson says that powering the company's largest global manufacturing plant with cogeneration turbines that run on natural gas and ...

25% Of Americans Don’t Recycle

25% Of Americans Don’t Recycle
While three-quarters of American adults recycle something in their own home, 23 percent still recycle nothing at all. One may think that ...

Weather Channel Updates ‘Forecast Earth’ Campaign

Weather Channel Updates ‘Forecast Earth’ Campaign
The Weather Channel has updated its “Forecast Earth" campaign to include internal green initiatives, dubbing the new campaign "Forecast Earth -? Going ...

Raymour & Flanigan Furniture Touts Recycling Efforts

Raymour & Flanigan Furniture Touts Recycling Efforts
Raymour & Flanigan Furniture says it's on track to recycle 15.2 million pounds of waste this year "Furniture ships from our ...

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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