The Executive’s Daily Green Briefing

Archive for January, 2008

Republicans And Dems Equally Likely To Perform ‘Green Actions’

Republicans And Dems Equally Likely To Perform ‘Green Actions’
Political party affiliation has little bearing on the number of "green" actions people take, a new study by Porter Novelli and George ...

Corporations Step Up Recycling Efforts

Corporations Step Up Recycling Efforts
According to the EPA, consumer electronics accounted for almost 1.5 percent of 250 million tons of trash in 2006, ...

Publicis Buys Sustainability Consultancy Act Now

Publicis Buys Sustainability Consultancy Act Now
Advertising giant Publicis Groupe has bought sustainability consultancy Act Now and renamed it Saatchi & Saatchi S. ...

Nokia Promises More Energy-Efficient Chargers

Nokia Promises More Energy-Efficient Chargers
Nokia has joined the WWF Climate Savers program and pledged to cut the power consumption of its battery chargers ...

Green Interior Design Getting Profitable

Green Interior Design Getting Profitable
Last week, during the annual three-day Winter Market at the San Francisco Design Center, the emphasis was not only ...

Austin Joins LED Cities and Saves Money With Green Lighting

Austin Joins LED Cities and Saves Money With Green Lighting
Cree Inc. announced that the City of Austin joined the LED City program to deploy and promote ...

British Gas Reprimanded for Greenwashing

British Gas Reprimanded for Greenwashing
The Advertising Standards Authority said that British Gas broke advertising rules by describing its "greenest" dual fuel ...

Pro Sports Go Green

Pro Sports Go Green
When the Philadelphia Eagles launched its Go Green campaign in 2003, it was the first pro athletic team ...

RecycleBank Gets Airtime At Davos

RecycleBank Gets Airtime At Davos
Here's a short promotional video on RecycleBank that Coca-Cola shared at the 2007 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. While we don't ...

DOE Abandons FutureGen CO2 Project

DOE Abandons FutureGen CO2 Project
The U.S. Department of Energy plans to pull its support of a $1.8 billion FutureGen project to build a ...

Demand Drives GMA Sustainability Initiative

Demand Drives GMA Sustainability Initiative
Sustainability initiatives are taking on greater urgency for consumer products companies as consumers, retailers, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and their own employees push ...

Companies Going Green Should Ignore Green Consumer

Companies Going Green Should Ignore Green Consumer
A company wishing to go green should focus on the green consumer, right? Not so, argues Steve Bishop, global ...

Green Plug Debuts Universal Power Supply

Green Plug Debuts Universal Power Supply
Green Plug introduced a universal power supply technology for consumer electronics devices at Demo 08. The power ...

Blair to Advise ZFS on Climate Change

Blair to Advise ZFS on Climate Change
Tony Blair said that he will advise Zurich Financial Services on climate change and political issues, Business Week ...

Dole Converts Farm Equipment to Biodiesel

Dole Converts Farm Equipment to Biodiesel
Dole Fresh Vegetables Company, a division of Dole Food, announced that it has converted 95 pieces of its ...

HP Innovates Cartridge Recying Program

HP Innovates Cartridge Recying Program
HP has developed the ability to use recycled plastics in the production of new HP inkjet print cartridges, according ...

CIA Gets Green, Clinton Library Gets Greener

CIA Gets Green, Clinton Library Gets Greener
The CIA is adopting green building designs and technology in its new campus facilities in northern Virginia. ...

States Petition EPA on GHG of Nonroad Engines

States Petition EPA on GHG of Nonroad Engines
California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. announced a petition to the EPA asking it to adopt GHG ...

HTC Purenergy to Launch New CO2 Capture System

HTC Purenergy to Launch New CO2 Capture System
HTC Purenergy announced that they have launched the world's first modular, pre-engineered CO2 Capture System, called the ...

Most Investors Say Companies Focus On Green For PR Value

Most Investors Say Companies Focus On Green For PR Value
Investors view the environment as a major long-term investing opportunity, according to the results of a survey of investors released by ...

Today's News

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black

Today's combination of dwindling natural resources, economic uncertainty, and the growing threat of global warming underscores the urgent need to embrace "being ... continue »

Measuring, Managing, Saving: Making Energy Efficiency Visible
Lean And Clean With Green Purchasing
‘Recyclable’ Is So Last-Century
Successfully Enticing LOHAS Consumers to Grocery Stores
U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior

U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior

The National Geographic Society and the international polling firm GlobeScan have unveiled a new mechanism for measuring and comparing individual consumer behavior ...

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Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking
eCommerce Goes Green
82% Of Execs Say Climate Change Will Alter Their Business Models
Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Joe Sprouls gives a tour of Citigroup's $310 million Green Skyscraper.

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China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers
Customer CSR Expectations Top Of Mind For CEOs
DuPont On Sustainable Packaging
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Adam Werbach’s Answer To Consumerism’s Global Warming Blues

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Green-Themed Email Marketing Sees Big Bump

Emissions

Companies Respond To Climate Change Shareholder Resolutions

Starwood Going Green With Element Hotels

Environmental Throwdown At Duke Shareholders’ Meeting

Hi-Tech

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black

Cutting The Internet’s Carbon Footprint

Report: Data Center Energy Efficiency Needs To Double By 2012

Efficiency

Virtual Hotel Aims To Improve Industry Sustainability

Popularity Of Energy Efficiency Utilities Grows

EBay Tops List Of Largest Solar Installations In San Jose

Manufacturing

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First

China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers

IBM, GSK, Herman Miller See Healthy ROI From Green Purchasing

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Enel Buys $232 Million Of Carbon Credits From China’s Wuhan Steel

RGGI Cap And Trade To Go Online Sept. 10

NAM, ACCF: Lieberman-Warner Bill Will Cost U.S. Big

CSR Reports

Brazilian, Indian Companies Dominate GRI Reporting Awards

CSR: Chevron To Invest $2.5B in Alternative, Renewable Energy Tech

Colgate-Palmolive Improves Production Efficiency

Major Players

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Food Services Industry Hammered On Climate Performance

HP Partners With Calif. On Print Cartridge Recycling

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