The Executive’s Daily Green Briefing

Archive for December, 2007

Bali Morning Brief - Financial Component ‘Key To Success’

Bali Morning Brief - Financial Component ‘Key To Success’
As formal talks continued at the climate negotiations in Bali, UNFCCC Executive Secretary, Yvo de Boer, said that the process on shaping ...

Report From Bali - Hotel Waste Piles Up

Report From Bali - Hotel Waste Piles Up
The Four Seasons, Bali Inter-Continental and Ritz-Carlton are among a handful of resorts that are doing it right when it comes to ...

Upward Trend Continues For Online Sustainability Buzz

Upward Trend Continues For Online Sustainability Buzz
EL has received some new charts from Nielsen Online measuring the amount of noise certain sustainability terms are seeing on blogs, ...

Johnson Controls Pledges To Reduce Emissions

Johnson Controls Pledges To Reduce Emissions
Johnson Controls has pledged to reduce its total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions intensity per dollar of revenue by 30 percent from ...

Toyota Releases Environmental Report, Plans 2.2 MW Solar Power System

Toyota Releases Environmental Report, Plans 2.2 MW Solar Power System
Toyota Motor Sales, USA has issued the first update on progress toward the goals and targets in the its 2011 Environmental Action ...

ADVERTISERS

Nokia Unveils Evolve, Green Phone In Green Packaging

Nokia Unveils Evolve, Green Phone In Green Packaging
Nokia has launched a new phone, the 3110 Evolve, which the company says has "bio-covers" made from more than 50 percent ...

Ireland Moves Forward On Incandescent Bulb Ban

Ireland Moves Forward On Incandescent Bulb Ban
Ireland will ban incandescent light bulbs in favor of energy-saving alternatives from 2009, making it the first country to take specific steps ...

House Sends Energy Bill To Senate, White House Promises Veto

House Sends Energy Bill To Senate, White House Promises Veto
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a comprehensive energy bill on Thursday on a 235 to 181 vote. The Energy Independence and ...

Luxury Brands Earn Average Or Worse Grades On Environmental Report Card

Luxury Brands Earn Average Or Worse Grades On Environmental Report Card
A report (PDF) launched by WWF , called "Deeper Luxury," examines the environmental and social record of some of the ...

Green Brands Overview

Green Brands Overview
An overview of the issues to consider when developing brands for environmentally responsible businesses, presented by Scamper Brand Strategy....

Emerson Releases ‘Roadmap’ To Data Center Energy Optimization

Emerson Releases ‘Roadmap’ To Data Center Energy Optimization
Emerson Network Power has released a report that the company says provides data center and IT managers with a prioritized approach to ...

Report From Bali - JP Morgan Talks Up Cap And Trade

Report From Bali - JP Morgan Talks Up Cap And Trade
It's only a matter of time before the U.S. joins the global carbon trading community, according to Odin Knudsen, JP Morgan's managing ...

Evo Launches Green Shopping Site

Evo Launches Green Shopping Site
A new green shopping site, Evo has launched, MarketingVox reports. The site covers everything from food and clothes, ...

NYC Earmarks $800 Million For Green Projects

NYC Earmarks $800 Million For Green Projects
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has released a short-term action plan (PDF) to begin reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas ...

Coors Announces Plans To Cut Emissions

Coors Announces Plans To Cut Emissions
Coors Brewing Company plans to reduce total greenhouse gas emissions by 12 percent, indexed to its production level, by 2010. The ...

Corporate Express Takes Green Cleaning Product Nationwide

Corporate Express Takes Green Cleaning Product Nationwide
Corporate Express has introduced a line of environmentally friendly commercial cleaning products. Sustainable Earth products – previously available only in the ...

Hobie Cat Cuts Energy Costs 20% With Lighting Retrofit

Hobie Cat Cuts Energy Costs 20% With Lighting Retrofit
Hobie Cat has completed a lighting retrofit that will save about $24,000 in annual energy costs. The Oceanside, Calif. company ...

The Morning Briefing From Bali - Things ‘Looking Good’

The Morning Briefing From Bali - Things ‘Looking Good’
Describing progress so far, UNFCCC Executive Secretary, Yvo de Boer, said that things are “looking good.” He pointed to the first meeting ...

Environmental Activists Get Media To Run Bogus USCAP Story

Environmental Activists Get Media To Run Bogus USCAP Story
Rising Tide North America, a loose-knit group of students and workers for nonprofit organizations, posed as phony public ...

Hybrid Owners Are Rich, Older And Active

Hybrid Owners Are Rich, Older And Active
Rich, older and active are adjectives that describe today’s hybrid vehicle owners, who also tend to be Democrats and Independents, according ...

Today's News

False Economies

False Economies

Thanks to the sub-prime crisis and issues like the global credit crunch, many economies are in poor shape. Oil prices are continuing ... continue »

‘Shovel Ready’ Stimulus – Projects That Should Be Supported
Going Green Starts with Design
How Business Influences Climate Change Policy
Is The ‘Green’ In Green IT Dead? No, Because It Was Never Really Alive
Retailers Find Environmental Concerns Playing Larger Role In Reputation

Retailers Find Environmental Concerns Playing Larger Role In Reputation

Retailers have entered a new age of corporate citizenship in which not only working conditions but environmental impacts of production and products ...

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LOHAS Consumers Drive Charitable Donations
UN: CDM Increasing Emission-Saving Initiatives, Critics Disagree
CSR Reporting Efforts: Electronics, Financial, and Metals
Air New Zealand Completes Flight Powered By Jatropha Biofuel

Air New Zealand Completes Flight Powered By Jatropha Biofuel

Air New Zealand utilized a biofuel blend of 50:50 jatropha and Jet A1 fuel to power one of the Air New Zealand Boeing ...

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Autodesk Green Design Software
Is Sustainability A Fad Or Here To Stay?
China’s Recycling Rate Plummets
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Greenwash Brigade Looks Back At 2008

Green Business 2008 - Environmental Leader’s Most Popular Stories

StubHub To Plant a Tree For Every Ticket Bought For NFL Post-Season

Emissions

Iowa Council Suggests Ways To Cut Emissions 90% By 2050

Dirty Coal A Likely Winner in 2009

Grand Canyon Visitors Center Taps Sun for Power

Hi-Tech

Connecticut DEP To Finalize Details of Statewide ‘E-waste’ Program

Speedy ROI with Quick Green IT Fixes

IT Leaders’ Green-Tech Predictions for 2009

Efficiency

Restaurants To Become ‘Greener,’ Offer More Local Produce In 2009

‘Smaller is Better’ Movement to Progress in 2009

Lenovo Meets, Exceeds EPA Energy Star Criteria Ahead of Deadline

Manufacturing

WSJ Slams Dell Over Carbon Neutral Claim

Product Stewardship Policy Gains Support

Rio Tinto Likely To Receive Free Carbon Permits Worth $462M in 2010

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Japan Airlines Jumps on Carbon Offset Bandwagon

SFO Kiosks To Sell Carbon Offsets

Critics: Bentley’s Plan To Cut CO2 With Ethanol Flawed

CSR Reports

Bombardier Meets 5-Yr Reduction Targets

CSR Reporting Efforts: Electronics, Financial, and Metals

Sustainable Silicon Valley Members Cut CO2 Emissions 27%

Major Players

McDonald’s To Rollout Energy Efficient Systems

Wind Not Quite Enough to Fill Staples’ Sails

False Economies

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