The Executive’s Daily Green Briefing

Archive for August, 2007

Rising Energy Costs Force Changes At Hitachi Unit

Rising Energy Costs Force Changes At Hitachi Unit
With the price of products such as laptops always coming down, and energy prices going up, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Singapore ...

Top Agencies Pitch Al Gore For Alliance Account

Top Agencies Pitch Al Gore For Alliance Account
Crispin Porter & Bogusky, Bartle Bogle Hegarty, the Martin Agency and Y&R are squaring off for the Alliance for Climate Protection ...

Virgin Games Installs Green Storage System

Virgin Games Installs Green Storage System
As part of the Virgin Group's global drive to develop and promote environmentally-friendly businesses, Virgin Games -brands include Virgin Poker, Virgin Bingo, ...

Perry Ellis Launching Line Of ‘Eco-Friendly’ Outdoor Garments

Perry Ellis Launching Line Of ‘Eco-Friendly’ Outdoor Garments
Economics are making it difficult for mainstream garment manufacturers to go green, The New York Times reports. Most synthetic materials are ...

Companies Focus On Cutting Energy Use

Companies Focus On Cutting Energy Use
With oil, gas and electricity prices soaring, companies are beginning to pour more money into making old equipment energy-efficient or upgrading to ...

Milliken & Company Launches Green Initiative

Milliken & Company Launches Green Initiative
Georgia-based Milliken & Company has launched an energy conservation initiative ­to reduce energy consumption. The company says that the initiative will increase ...

iLinc Positions Video Conferencing As Emissions-Cutting Tool

iLinc Positions Video Conferencing As Emissions-Cutting Tool
Web and audio conferencing software company iLinc Communications says that customers, partners and employees participating in its iReduce program have saved ...

Could Cap-And-Trade Work For Water?

Could Cap-And-Trade Work For Water?
John Regan, founder of Environmental Credit Corp., a carbon-credit supplier on the Chicago Climate Exchange, thinks a model similar to ...

BP Backs Down On Higher Lake Michigan Discharge Limits

BP Backs Down On Higher Lake Michigan Discharge Limits
BP says it will not invoke provisions of a new permit that allows it to release significantly more ammonia and suspended solids into ...

Coalition Turns Up Heat On AES Hydro Projects

Coalition Turns Up Heat On AES Hydro Projects
AES Corporation is facing increased pressure from The Center for Biological Diversity, along with more than 50 indigenous and environmental ...

IBM Helps Clients Calculate & Cut Carbon Footprints

IBM Helps Clients Calculate & Cut Carbon Footprints
Green Wombat has an article about IBM's move into carbon consulting. "We’re working with customers that want to take carbon out ...

Alcoa Installs 588 kW Solar Power System

Alcoa Installs 588 kW Solar Power System
Alcoa has completed a 588 kW, roof-mounted photovoltaic solar power system at its Alcoa Building and Construction Systems’ Kawneer manufacturing ...

44% Of UK Shoppers Would Buy Brand With Smaller Carbon Footprint

44% Of UK Shoppers Would Buy Brand With Smaller Carbon Footprint
More than half of UK consumers want information about the carbon footprint of the products they purchase and nearly half would switch ...

Multinationals Accused of Violating China’s Water Pollution Regs

Multinationals Accused of Violating China’s Water Pollution Regs
Multinational companies are operating in a far more environmentally damaging fashion in China than they do at home, according to the Beijing-based ...

Has U.S. Reached Green Turning Point? Depends Which Survey You Read

Has U.S. Reached Green Turning Point? Depends Which Survey You Read
Eighty-seven percent of consumers are seriously concerned about the environment, according to the 2007 GfK Roper Green Gauge. The survey ...

Woolworths Slammed For Using Sustainable Forests Logo

Woolworths Slammed For Using Sustainable Forests Logo
Woolworths, Australia's biggest supermarket chain, has told shoppers that two of its home brand products are environmentally sustainable, but at least ...

EBSCO Installs Solar Power System

EBSCO Installs Solar Power System
EBSCO Publishing has installed a photovoltaic array on the roof of their building on Union Street in Ipswich, Massachusetts. The 192 solar ...

Western States Pledge To Cut GHG Emissions

Western States Pledge To Cut GHG Emissions
Six Western states and two Canadian provinces pledged (PDF) Wednesday to work together to cut greenhouse gas emissions 15 percent below ...

Riverstone Installing Recyclable Carpet

Riverstone Installing Recyclable Carpet
Riverstone Residential Group, the nation's largest independently owned property management company, is installing recyclable carpet into 5,000 of its rental apartment ...

Retailers Push Green Products On Back-To-School Crowd

Retailers Push Green Products On Back-To-School Crowd
Retailers are pushing eco-friendly products for back-to-school season, The Boston Globe reports. In recent weeks, Wal-Mart began selling a $350 eco-friendly computer, the ...

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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