The Executive’s Daily Green Briefing

Archive for December, 2007

Risk Expertise, Capital Mobility Will Help FIs Respond To Climate Change

Risk Expertise, Capital Mobility Will Help FIs Respond To Climate Change
Financial institutions should act now to respond to changing demand due to climate change, and also protect themselves against the longer term ...

UN Secretary-General Urges Economic Powers To Demonstrate Leadership

UN Secretary-General Urges Economic Powers To Demonstrate Leadership
At an afternoon press briefing following the opening of the High-Level segment of the Climate Change Conference, United Nations Secretary-General Ban ...

Weyerhaeuser At Bali Business Day

Weyerhaeuser At Bali Business Day
Yesterday we reported on Weyerhaeuser and photosynthesis as a natural solution for carbon capture and storage. Here, Weyerhaeuser's senior vice president ...

Solar Venture Investing Trends

Solar Venture Investing Trends
Venture capital investment in the solar industry has gone from a few deals in 2004 to potentially reach $1B in 2007, vaulting ...

Corporate Leaders Take Bigger Role In Sustainability Reporting

Corporate Leaders Take Bigger Role In Sustainability Reporting
Public relations is taking a backseat to accounting when it comes to sustainability reports, the Financial Times reports. "No longer is this ...

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Green Pressure On Tire Makers Builds

Green Pressure On Tire Makers Builds
Tire makers are being asked to pull their weight when it comes to cutting energy use, the Wall Street Journal reports. ...

Greenwashers Get Site Of Their Very Own

Greenwashers Get Site Of Their Very Own
Green advertisers could soon get more eyeballs than they want. Enviromedia Social Marketing, which has been reporting from Bali for Environmental ...

Look Beyond Data Centers To Cut IT Energy Use

Look Beyond Data Centers To Cut IT Energy Use
Data centers have become the darlings of the green IT movement, but many IT departments haven't yet looked at the rest of ...

Yahoo’s Top Green Search Terms

Yahoo’s Top Green Search Terms
If you use keywords to drive Web traffic, take note. Yahoo has released its top 2007 search trends and the environment ...

Dwell Shifts To Recycled Paper, Cuts Trim Size

Dwell Shifts To Recycled Paper, Cuts Trim Size
Beginning with its February '08 issue, Dwell Magazine will transition to recycled content paper, use more soy-based inks and change the trim ...

Dial’s Casper Discusses Green Products

Dial’s Casper Discusses Green Products
In a recent interview with Forbes.com, Brad Casper, Dial's CEO, discussed his company's sustainability initiatives. "Being environmentally friendly has become a business ...

Cradle-To-Consumer Environmental Impacts Explored

Cradle-To-Consumer Environmental Impacts Explored
The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society has developed a model to assess the cradle-to-consumer environmental impacts from ...

The Paper Consumer’s Guide to Climate Change

The Paper Consumer’s Guide to Climate Change
Business managers at U.S. firms have more leverage to reduce climate change than they may realize because nearly every firm purchases vast ...

Weyerhauser Touts Photosynthesis As Natural Solution For Carbon Storage

Weyerhauser Touts Photosynthesis As Natural Solution For Carbon Storage
As debates on carbon capture and storage continue at the U.N. Conference on Climate Change in Bali, Indonesia, Weyerhaeuser Senior Vice ...

Arby’s To Install Solar Water Heaters At 33 Locations

Arby’s To Install Solar Water Heaters At 33 Locations
Thirty-three Arby's restaurants in North Carolina are switching from conventional natural gas hot water heaters to solar powered hot water heaters. A ...

New California GHG Rules Affect Large Emitters, Supply Chains

New California GHG Rules Affect Large Emitters, Supply Chains
The California Air Resources Board has passed mandatory reporting regulations that require annual reporting from the largest facilities in the state, ...

Rudd Rumored, Yvo ‘A-Go’ At Bali Business Day

Rudd Rumored, Yvo ‘A-Go’ At Bali Business Day
Enter some new blood that might help jump-start the slow-going U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change talks in Bali. Word is new ...

Alcoa Spending $22 Million To Double Recycling Capability

Alcoa Spending $22 Million To Double Recycling Capability
Alcoa has broken ground on a new $22 million project at its Can Reclamation facility at its Tennessee Operations. Improvements include ...

New SEC Rule Saved Sun $500,000 And 100 Million Sheets Of Paper

New SEC Rule Saved Sun $500,000 And 100 Million Sheets Of Paper
For Sun Microsystems, "eco" stands for both ecology, as in the environment, and economy, as in the financial bottom line. Recently ...

Forest Ethics Releases Naughty And Nice List, Gives Sears Lump Of Coal

Forest Ethics Releases Naughty And Nice List, Gives Sears Lump Of Coal
Forest Ethics and its Catalog Cutdown campaign have released its annual Naughty and Nice list (PDF), which grades catalog ...

Today's News

COP 15 Offers Communications Opportunities

COP 15 Offers Communications Opportunities

What is the No.1 event-related global communications opportunity for your carbon messaging of the next 4 years? Here are a couple of clues… •    ... continue »

Greening the Apparel Supply Chain: Tapping the Power of Collective Leverage
Sustainability and its Impact on Brand Value
The Advertising Industry, Sustainability and the Bottom Line
Thoroughly Modernized Milton And Corporate Social Responsibility
Green Efforts Insignificant in Winning, Keeping 3PL Business

Green Efforts Insignificant in Winning, Keeping 3PL Business

The 3PL industry has made significant strides in establishing environmental responsibility as part of broader corporate visions, with companies reporting numerous internal ...

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Google Says Its Data Centers Most Efficient
Fast-Moving Eco-Friendly Consumer Goods Appeal to Many
Environmental Friendliness Not Driving PC Sales
Miller Recycles 99.9% of Packaging Waste

Miller Recycles 99.9% of Packaging Waste

The U.S. beer maker Miller has a goal of zero waste in their breweries and is currently recycling 99.9% of all packaging ...

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Credit Crunch Could Hurt Mitsubishi’s Eco-Car Push
What’s The Price Tag For A Carbon Neutral U.S. Economy?
Interface VP Discusses Biomimicry And Design
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Survey: Apple Most Eco-Friendly, Greenpeace Says Different

Green Inc.: Conservation Organizations Compromised By Corporate Dollars

Office Depot Targets Eco-Conscious Consumers in Europe

Emissions

Ericsson Unveils Wind-Powered Tower Tube

Sun, Pfizer Surpass Carbon Reduction Goals

Constellation Wines Installing 1.2 Megawatt Solar System

Hi-Tech

Google Says Its Data Centers Most Efficient

European Data Centers Face Energy Crisis

Environmental Friendliness Not Driving PC Sales

Efficiency

EPA Announces First WaterSense Partners of the Year

World Steel Association Publishes Sustainability Report

Wal-Mart’s Packaging Scorecard Drives Sustainability, Cuts GHG Emissions

Manufacturing

Greening the Apparel Supply Chain: Tapping the Power of Collective Leverage

ARC Offers Sustainability Strategies for Manufacturers

Sanyo’s Solar Ark: Company Shift or PR Stunt?

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Gap Flips Switch On 1 Megawatt Solar Power System

USDA, DOE Unveil Plans to Accelerate Sustainable Biofuels Development

EU Votes For Tougher Carbon Laws

CSR Reports

AT&T Releases Sustainability Report

Autodesk HQ Cuts Emissions with Lighting Upgrades

Staples Saved Over 540,000 Gallons of Diesel in 2007

Major Players

Green Efforts Insignificant in Winning, Keeping 3PL Business

Critics Say Energy Star Standards Too Lax

Google Unveils $4.4 Trillion Clean Energy Plan

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