The Executive’s Daily Green Briefing

Archive for January, 2008

Marriott, Hilton,Other Hotels Going Green

Marriott, Hilton,Other Hotels Going Green
A 2007 survey conducted by the Association of Corporate Travel Executives and KDS revealed that only one-third of corporate ...

OVG CEO Says Green Pays Off

OVG CEO Says Green Pays Off
Conrad van Oostrom is the Dutch CEO and founder of OVG, a 10-year old real estate development company ...

GM Receives Orders for Hybrid Buses

GM Receives Orders for Hybrid Buses
General Motors said it received orders for more than 1,700 hybrid buses from transit agencies in Washington D.C., ...

L.A. Plastic Bag Ban Unravels

L.A. Plastic Bag Ban Unravels
Los Angeles County supervisors retreated from a threat to ban plastic bags and instead opted for a volunteer program ...

NTT Announces Carbon Offset Program

NTT Announces Carbon Offset Program
NTT America, a wholly-owned U.S. subsidiary of NTT Communications Corporation, announced a new program to offset CO2 emissions ...

Global Inheritance Marketing Green to Gen Y

Global Inheritance Marketing Green to Gen Y
According to research from Mintel International, companies spend more than $1 billion a year on cause-related marketing, much of ...

UK’s Brown Calls For Green World Bank

UK’s Brown Calls For Green World Bank
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Prime Minister Gordon Brown called for the World Bank to assume ...

Green Promotional Item Cuts PC Energy Use

Green Promotional Item Cuts PC Energy Use
The Ecobutton is a promotional item for businesses - company logos, messages and weblinks can be incorporated into ...

Closeup On Honda Clarity

Closeup On Honda Clarity
Steve Ellis, marketing manager for Honda's fuel cell program, talks with Green Fuels Forecast about the retail launch of the Clarity....

Most Americans Say Green Efforts Pay Off For Communities

Most Americans Say Green Efforts Pay Off For Communities
Most Americans believe local efforts to be environmentally sensitive by “going green” will pay off for their communities by attracting new businesses ...

Wal-Mart Chief Pledges to Go Greener

Wal-Mart Chief Pledges to Go Greener
In a speech that promised widespread improvement and reform throughout Wal-Mart and its supply chain, Wal-Mart CEO H. ...

Chrysler Testing Trees To Clean Contaminated Site

Chrysler Testing Trees To Clean Contaminated Site
Chrysler has teamed up with Purdue researchers in a project to use transgenic poplar trees to eliminate pollutants ...

Kyocera Adopts Hybrids As Company Cars

Kyocera Adopts Hybrids As Company Cars
Kyocera Corporation announced that it will begin the full-scale adoption of hybrid vehicles for company cars that are ...

HP Introduces Two Energy-Efficient Business PCs

HP Introduces Two Energy-Efficient Business PCs
HP announced two new energy-efficient business desktop PCs, the HP Compaq dc5800 Business PC and the HP Compaq dc7800 Ultra-slim Desktop ...

Dot Hill Joins Two Green Groups

Dot Hill Joins Two Green Groups
Dot Hill Systems announced it has joined the Green Grid and the Storage Networking Industry Associoation Green Storage ...

EU Sets Emissions Targets

EU Sets Emissions Targets
The European Commission set new emissions targets and called on EU members to increase their use of ...

Greenfleet Offsets Emissions

Greenfleet Offsets Emissions
Greenfleet Car Service announced that through its partnership with Carbonfund.org it has offset the carbon emissions of ...

Marketers Scramble To Put Green Product Differentials To Work

Marketers Scramble To Put Green Product Differentials To Work
Short video of Creative Partners' president of Public Relations Division Fred Thompson talking about green marketing....

Hormel Foods Releases 2007 CSR Report

Hormel Foods Releases 2007 CSR Report
Hormel Foods has released its 2007 Corporate Responsibility Report. "The process of compiling information for this report has taught ...

Lawyers Charge Top Dollar For Climate Change Work

Lawyers Charge Top Dollar For Climate Change Work
Twenty of the top 100 highest-grossing U.S. law firms are billing as much as $700 dollars per hour for ...

Today's News

Industry Needs Energy Star For Servers - Now!

Industry Needs Energy Star For Servers - Now!

The other day while out shopping for Energy Star rated household appliances with my wife, I got to wondering why we ... continue »

Parse The Greens, Pass The Spectacle
Timberland’s Journey to Quarterly CSR Reporting
Peak Carbon
Consumers Understand Greenwash, So Why Can’t The Communications Industry?
MIT Report: World Can Learn From European Cap-And-Trade System

MIT Report: World Can Learn From European Cap-And-Trade System

The EU cap-and-trade system has operated well and has had little or no negative impact on the overall EU economy, according to ...

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Fewer Willing To Pay Premium For Green
EIA Projects 50% Growth In World Energy Use By 2030
Fuel Prices, Environment Drive Consideration Of Hybrids
UK Facing Higher Green Taxes

UK Facing Higher Green Taxes

Political and business leaders are warning that Britain faces a sharp rise in its tax bill to fund the country's move to ...

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Climate Change And Public Health
Commute Program Helps Juniper Employees Reduce Trips
Clean Diesel Talked Up At Mid America Trucking Show
The Bottom Line

Marketing

New Video Shows Innovations In Textile Industry

Enterprise Rent-A-Car Says Thin Clients Will Save $500,000

Parse The Greens, Pass The Spectacle

Emissions

Ericsson Solar Cell Solution Deployed In South America

MIT Report: World Can Learn From European Cap-And-Trade System

Leaving Computers On Over Holiday Weekend Costs Big Bucks

Hi-Tech

Industry Needs Energy Star For Servers - Now!

Novomer Makes Sacrificial Binder From Recycled CO2

‘Old’ IT Doesn’t Have To Mean ‘Inefficient’

Efficiency

Logan Airport Wind Energy Excursion A Success

Ball Aims To Reduce GHG 16 Percent by 2012

Branson Plans Zero Carbon Resort, Launches Eco-Consulting Group

Manufacturing

Lee Company Installs Solar Power System

Anaerobic Digestion Facility At Maker’s Mark Powers Distillery

EPA Web Site Provides Importing, Exporting Environmental Rules

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Harrah’s Pitching Carbon Offsets

Denver International Carbon Offset Program Fails To Take Off

Passengers Will Pay For New EU Airlines Emissions Rules

CSR Reports

GHG Emissions Up At Owens Corning, Energy Use Down

IBM Launches Green Consulting Service

Baxter Aims To Reduce GHG Emissions By 45% By 2015

Major Players

P&W Geared Turbofan Engine Could Help Industry Cut Emissions

Dell Power Supply First To Receive ‘80 Plus Gold’ Certification

Dow Raising Prices, Again

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