The Executive’s Daily Green Briefing

Archive for December, 2007

5 Stages Of Corporate Sustainability

5 Stages Of Corporate Sustainability
In a recent AMR Research newsletter, John Davies wrote about five Elisabeth Kubler-Ross-like stages that a business might go through when ...

OfficeMax Releases Corporate Social Responsibility Report

OfficeMax Releases Corporate Social Responsibility Report
OfficeMax has issued its first Corporate Social Responsibility report (PDF). According to the report, OfficeMax reduced its greenhouse gas ...

Shocker: ‘Natural’ Consumers Willing To Pay More For Green Products

Shocker: ‘Natural’ Consumers Willing To Pay More For Green Products
Most natural-product consumers indicated they would pay more for environmentally friendly products, with seven in 10 consumers willing to pay up to ...

U.S. Energy Bill Phases Out Incandescent Light Bulb

U.S. Energy Bill Phases Out Incandescent Light Bulb
The energy bill, which passed the Senate last week and which the U.S. House could pass as early as today, will ...

New Plant Could Make Cereplast Leading Player In Bioplastics

New Plant Could Make Cereplast Leading Player In Bioplastics
Cereplast recently announced plans for a new facility in in Seymour, Indiana that will add 500 million pounds a year to ...

Half Of U.S. Adults Will Make Green New Year’s Resolution

Half Of U.S. Adults Will Make Green New Year’s Resolution
Forty-nine percent of all American adults say they will make a green New Year's resolution this year, according to ...

PG&E To Purchase Wave Power From Finavera

PG&E To Purchase Wave Power From Finavera
Pacific Gas & Electric has signed a power purchase agreement with Finavera Renewables for 2 megawatts of electricity that will ...

DuPont Uses Support Programs & Incentives To Encourage Energy Efficiency

DuPont Uses Support Programs & Incentives To Encourage Energy Efficiency
DuPont has in place several programs to encourage and support its business units to implement energy efficiency goals to reduce its greenhouse ...

Gap Exists Between Corporate Citizenship Rhetoric And Reality

Gap Exists Between Corporate Citizenship Rhetoric And Reality
Positive attitudes about corporate citizenship among U.S. business leaders are not yet matched by positive actions, according to the State of ...

Beluga Skysails Prepares For Maiden Voyage

Beluga Skysails Prepares For Maiden Voyage
"MV Beluga Skysails" cargo ship has been fitted with a giant kite, which is attached to a 15-metre high mast and ...

Daimler Takes Orders From NYC, Ottawa For Over 1000 Hybrid Buses

Daimler Takes Orders From NYC, Ottawa For Over 1000 Hybrid Buses
Daimler Buses North America has received orders totaling 1,052 Orion VII Next Generation diesel-electric hybrid transit buses from some of ...

AMD Study Reveals Shifting Patterns In Worldwide Datacenter Energy Use

AMD Study Reveals Shifting Patterns In Worldwide Datacenter Energy Use
Based on current growth trends, the U.S. share of total world server electricity use from datacenters will likely decline from 40 percent ...

NY Moving Company Greens Operations

NY Moving Company Greens Operations
Movers, Not Shakers says it is the first moving company in New York to incorporate green moving practices in its operations ...

Supply Chain Leaders Should Prepare For Carbon Labeling

Supply Chain Leaders Should Prepare For Carbon Labeling
Companies should be preparing for carbon labeling, according to the latest edition of MIT's Supply Chain Strategy newsletter, developed by the MIT ...

GM Turns To Workers To Help Trim Energy Bills

GM Turns To Workers To Help Trim Energy Bills
General Motors is trying to get workers to turn off lights and computers, and alert managers to window leaks and other energy ...

Amtrak Launches Carbon Offset Program For Passengers

Amtrak Launches Carbon Offset Program For Passengers
Amtrak has launched a program that lets passengers offset the carbon emissions footprint generated by their train travel. Offsets start at $3, ...

De Boer’s Closing Press Briefing From Bali

De Boer’s Closing Press Briefing From Bali
In his closing press briefing, UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer describes the outcome of the two-week conference and the successful adoption ...

Bali Compromise Leads To ‘Action Plan’

Bali Compromise Leads To ‘Action Plan’
Over the weekend, in a matter of minutes, the U.S. rejected and then accepted a compromise at Bali that sets the stage ...

Recycline Takes Boost Your Business Award

Recycline Takes Boost Your Business Award
Last week, Recycline, an eco-friendly consumer-products company based in Waltham, MA, won the grand prize of the Forbes.com Boost Your ...

1% Of UK Businesses Know Their Carbon Footprint

1% Of UK Businesses Know Their Carbon Footprint
More than a quarter (26 percent) of all UK businesses, and 43 percent of large businesses, have been affected by climate change. ...

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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