The Executive’s Daily Green Briefing

Archive for November, 2007

Business Leaders’ Bali Communique Seeks Binding Emission Targets

Business Leaders’ Bali Communique Seeks Binding Emission Targets
On the eve of the UN negotiations in Bali, business leaders of 150 global companies, including Coca-Cola, Dupont, Gap, GE, and ...

U.S. Can Halve Emissions Without ‘Big Changes In Consumer Lifestyles’

U.S. Can Halve Emissions Without ‘Big Changes In Consumer Lifestyles’
The U.S. could reduce projected 2030 emissions of greenhouse gases by between one-third to one-half at manageable costs to the economy and ...

365 Main Customers Pass On Natural-Gas-Powered Data Center

365 Main Customers Pass On Natural-Gas-Powered Data Center
365 Main, a data center developer and operator, wanted to build a new data center in Newark, Calif. fueled entirely by ...

BofA Teams With Brighter Planet On Green Credit Card

BofA Teams With Brighter Planet On Green Credit Card
Bright Planet, which back in March was one of the first U.S. companies to announce plans to offer a credit card ...

Nau CEO Talks Up Company’s ‘Web Front’ Concept

Nau CEO Talks Up Company’s ‘Web Front’ Concept
Chris Van Dyke, CEO of Nau, discusses the company's "webfront" concept that integrates e-commerce with traditional bricks and mortar shopping and Nau's ...

Coke To Add 120 Hybrid-Electric Trucks In 2008

Coke To Add 120 Hybrid-Electric Trucks In 2008
Coca-Cola Enterprises has added five hybrid-electric trucks to their distribution center in the Bronx. The Bronx sales center has 90 trucks servicing ...

Allstate Buys RECs

Allstate Buys RECs
Allstate is purchasing 24.5 million kilowatts of renewable energy credits through Carbonfund.org. The credits are being used to "fund wind energy for ...

Whole Foods, Food Lion Among EPA’s GreenChill Participants

Whole Foods, Food Lion Among EPA’s GreenChill Participants
EPA and the supermarket, refrigeration equipment and chemical refrigerant industries have joined the GreenChill Advanced Refrigeration Partnership – a program ...

Ethanol Losing Its Lustre

Ethanol Losing Its Lustre
Ethanol has gone from the answer for U.S. energy independence to what some are calling a cure that is worse than the ...

IBM, Dell, Others Say IT Key To Tackling Climate Change

IBM, Dell, Others Say IT Key To Tackling Climate Change
Information and communication technologies  are largely contributing to climate change but also hold the key to tackling it,  industry leaders told a ...

Toshiba Launches Plant A Tree Program

Toshiba Launches Plant A Tree Program
Toshiba is promoting a new Carbon Zero Scheme in the UK, which lets customers donate $2.43 in exchange for Toshiba offsetting ...

Discovery, Pratt, Albanese Among Sustainable Design Winners

Discovery, Pratt, Albanese Among Sustainable Design Winners
Global Green USA has announced the winners of its Designing a Sustainable and Secure World Awards. Albanese Organization won ...

How SC Johnson Saved $1.6 Million With Efficient Trucking

How SC Johnson Saved $1.6 Million With Efficient Trucking
SC Johnson recently completed a transportation-logistics project that eliminated 1,882 tons of greenhouse gases over a 12 month period, used 2,098 ...

Sustainable Design Agency Shrinks Washing Machine’s Footprint

Sustainable Design Agency Shrinks Washing Machine’s Footprint
A Sao Paulo design agency, Chelles & Hayashi, aims to help companies create products that reduce the amount of raw material ...

U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Down 1.5 percent In 2006

U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Down 1.5 percent In 2006
Total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions have dropped 1.5 percent. GHG emissions were 7,075.6 million metric tons carbon dioxide equivalent in ...

Barneys Sells Green For The Holidays

Barneys Sells Green For The Holidays
Barneys New York, the high-end retailer, is pushing a "green" holiday this year, according to Good Experience. Slogans being used ...

Tourism Operators Look For Sustainable Solutions

Tourism Operators Look For Sustainable Solutions
The push is on for tourism operators to operate sustainably. Here's a look at the issues New Zealand is facing. A key ...

London 2012 Releases Sustainability Plan

London 2012 Releases Sustainability Plan
London 2012 has outlined its sustainability plans for the 2012 Olympic Games. Highlights of the sustainability plan, Towards A One ...

BASF Scores Big On Sustainability Communications Report Card

BASF Scores Big On Sustainability Communications Report Card
BASF’s corporate website is the most complete and web savvy in the field of online sustainability communications, Jungle Rating – a ...

Logica3 Launches Green Holiday Card Service For Businesses

Logica3 Launches Green Holiday Card Service For Businesses
As businesses prepare for the ritual of sending out their holiday greetings, Logica3, a design communications agency in the Chicago area, ...

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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