The Executive’s Daily Green Briefing

Archive for September, 2007

Philips Wants 30% Of Revenue To Come From Green Products

Philips Wants 30% Of Revenue To Come From Green Products
Philips says that by 2012 it wants 30 percent of total revenues to come from green products, compared with 15 percent ...

Dell Plans To Go Carbon Neutral By Next Year

Dell Plans To Go Carbon Neutral By Next Year
Dell says it will become the first PC maker in the industry to make its worldwide operations carbon neutral by next ...

ING To Offset U.S. Operations With Wind Power Credits

ING To Offset U.S. Operations With Wind Power Credits
ING plans to purchase enough wind energy credits to offset its entire U.S. operations. The financial services company announced its intention ...

Office Depot Releases Corporate Citizenship Report, Announces Green Building Plans

Office Depot Releases Corporate Citizenship Report, Announces Green Building Plans
Office Depot released its 2007 Corporate Citizenship Report, "Fulfilling Our Vision - Living Our Values." The Corporate Citizenship Report is a combined ...

Energy Pulse: Wallets Drive Many Green Purchase Decisions

Energy Pulse: Wallets Drive Many Green Purchase Decisions
Companies that want to sell themselves as “green” and environmentally friendly must address product cost concerns as well as put their own ...

JC Penney Opening Pilot Store For Future Green Construction

JC Penney Opening Pilot Store For Future Green Construction
J. C. Penney is opening a new store in Denver that will pilot a series of sustainability initiatives for new store ...

TheFind Opens Green Shopping Site

TheFind Opens Green Shopping Site
TheFind.com has launched a shopping search website for finding products from eco-friendly retailers and brands. TheFindGreen.com includes products that are organic, developed ...

Roche Global Winner Of FT/Citi Private Bank Environmental Awards

Roche Global Winner Of FT/Citi Private Bank Environmental Awards
Roche, Consolidated Edison and Scottish ice cream company Mackies were named winners of the inaugural FT/Citi Private Bank environmental awards, Environmental ...

Staples Breaks Ground On LEED Store

Staples Breaks Ground On LEED Store
Staples is breaking ground on what it says is Miami's first green retail building registered with the U.S. Green Building Council's ...

Sun Launches B2B Community For Comparing GHG Emissions

Sun Launches B2B Community For Comparing GHG Emissions
Sun Microsystems has launched OpenEco.org, an online community to help organizations calculate, compare, and reduce green house gas emissions. The ...

Costco Installing More Solar Power Systems

Costco Installing More Solar Power Systems
Costco is expanding its solar power initiative at a number of their Southern California facilities with a combined rated output of 2.4 ...

UN’s Ban Says ‘Breakthrough’ Needed To Combat Climate Change

UN’s Ban Says ‘Breakthrough’ Needed To Combat Climate Change
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has ratcheted up the pressure on the U.S. to help achieve a breakthrough on cutting greenhouse-gas emissions, Bloomberg ...

Volvo Opens Carbon Neutral Vehicle Production Plant

Volvo Opens Carbon Neutral Vehicle Production Plant
Volvo Trucks has opened its carbon neutral (what the company has labeled 'CO2 Free') plant in Ghent, Belgium. The factory produces 35,000 ...

Apparel Manufacturers Eye Carbon Labels

Apparel Manufacturers Eye Carbon Labels
Because clothing is responsible for approximately one ton of each individual's CO2 emissions (including washing and drying), we're likely to see more ...

Govts Accelerate HCFC Phaseout

Govts Accelerate HCFC Phaseout
Acting on a U.S. proposal, the world's governments signed up to an accelerated freeze and phase-out of hydrochloroflurocarbons (HCFCs) under the ...

Memorex Launches Tree Planting Campaign For ReNew Product Line

Memorex Launches Tree Planting Campaign For ReNew Product Line
Imation's Memorex has teamed with the Arbor Day Foundation to launch a campaign for its ReNew line of consumer electronics. Each ...

Vail Releases Green Details Of ‘Ever Vail’ Development

Vail Releases Green Details Of ‘Ever Vail’ Development
More details have come out about Vail Resorts' $1 billion Ever Vail development, the largest LEED-certified, multi-use resort development project ...

Wal-Mart To Measure Suppliers’ Energy Use

Wal-Mart To Measure Suppliers’ Energy Use
Wal-Mart will measure the amount of energy used to create products throughout its supply chain, including the procurement, manufacturing and distribution process. ...

CDP5: More Companies Address Climate Change Risk

CDP5: More Companies Address Climate Change Risk
Ninety-five percent of companies that consider climate change to present a commercial risk have implemented a GHG reduction program with a specific ...

Media Gives NGOs Easy Ride

Media Gives NGOs Easy Ride
NGOs often get an easy ride from the media compared with industry and government, a panel of journalists told an international forum ...

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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