The Executive’s Daily Green Briefing

Archive for January, 2008

Corporate Knights Lists 100 Most Sustainable Companies

Corporate Knights Lists 100 Most Sustainable Companies
Corporate Knights Inc. and Innovest Strategic Value Advisors announced its fourth annual list of the 100 ...

Yale Cuts GHG Emissions

Yale Cuts GHG Emissions
In a speech at the University of Copenhagen, Yale President Richard Levin said that since committing to a steep ...

Western Digital Promotes Its Sustainability Efforts

Western Digital Promotes Its Sustainability Efforts
Western Digital Corporation has launched a new section on its corporate website that provides information on the ...

GEMI Updates Business And Climate Web Tool

GEMI Updates Business And Climate Web Tool
The Global Environmental Management Initiative has launched a new version of its Business and Climate web tool that ...

Govt Could Save $1 Billion With Green Tech

Govt Could Save $1 Billion With Green Tech
Two new reports, one focusing on data centers, the other on PCs and related gear, find that the federal ...

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Alcoa Wants To Increase Aluminum Recycling

Alcoa Wants To Increase Aluminum Recycling
Alcoa announced a goal to raise the industry's used beverage can rate in North America from 52 percent ...

BT Unveils Green Home Phones

BT Unveils Green Home Phones
BT has unveiled a new range of green home phones and says that by July 2008, more than ...

Survey: 16% Of IT Pros In ‘Anti-Green Camp’

Survey: 16% Of IT Pros In ‘Anti-Green Camp’
Forty-one percent of corporations have deployed virtualization or server consolidation strategies to save on energy cost, according to a Harris Interactive survey ...

Panda Turns Manure Into Energy

Panda Turns Manure Into Energy
In Texas, Panda Ethanol is nearing completion of the first-ever manure fired ethanol plant in the world, Reuters reports. The world's first ...

BMW Wants Green Brand

BMW Wants Green Brand
BMW is looking for a new green brand. Some have speculated that the Triumph badge will be revived as ...

Xynergy Opening Hydrogen-Powered Restaurant in Boulder

Xynergy Opening Hydrogen-Powered Restaurant in Boulder
Xynergy has announced that it plans to open its flagship hydrogen-powered restaurant this summer in Boulder, CO.  The company said that ...

AT&T Burned by Green Tech

AT&T Burned by Green Tech
On Christmas this past year at an AT&T facility in Wisconsin, a series of fires sparked by explosions of green backup batteries ...

Super Bowl Powered Completely With Green Energy

Super Bowl Powered Completely With Green Energy
This year's Super Bowl in Glendale, Arizona, will be the first ever powered completely with renewable energy by using solar, wind and ...

Clean Air Lawn Care Begins Franchising Nationally

Clean Air Lawn Care Begins Franchising Nationally
In 2005, Kelly Giard opened Clean Air Lawn Care, a carbon neutral lawn care business that uses biodiesel in its riding ...

Cruise Ships Worse For Environment Than Planes

Cruise Ships Worse For Environment Than Planes
Cruise ships emit three times more CO2 than airplanes, reports the Telegraph. In its annual report, Carnival, which comprises 11 ...

ZFS Launches Climate Initiative

ZFS Launches Climate Initiative
Under a newly launched initiative, Zurich Financial Services Group has established an internal office that will oversee the study and understanding ...

Lockheed Helps the Private Sector Conserve

Lockheed Helps the Private Sector Conserve
Relying on expertise it gained in managing government and military energy programs for over two decades, Lockheed Martin doubled the sales of ...

Sustainable ‘Designers Accord’ Could Revolutionize Industry

Sustainable ‘Designers Accord’ Could Revolutionize Industry
Over a year ago, product designer Valerie Casey wrote what she called "a ‘Kyoto Treaty' of design," an accord to focus the ...

The Benefits Of Sustainability: Purchase, Loyalty And Influence

The Benefits Of Sustainability: Purchase, Loyalty And Influence
Consumers have high expectations with regard to corporate sustainability, according to the Natural Marketing Institute's 2007 LOHAS Consumer Trends Database. Nearly 80 ...

General Mills’ Sustainability Chief Discusses Green Issues

General Mills’ Sustainability Chief Discusses Green Issues
In this Ceres' video from last spring, General Mills vice president of sustainable development Gene Kahn speaks about the company's sustainability issues....

Today's News

The Evolving Green Challenge for Manufacturing

The Evolving Green Challenge for Manufacturing

Unless you have been incommunicado for the last few years, you realize that the focus on green manufacturing has swept across Europe, ... continue »

COP 15 Offers Communications Opportunities
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
Cause Marketing Can Result In Sales Lift

Cause Marketing Can Result In Sales Lift

Cause-related marketing can exponentially increase sales, in one case as much as 74 percent, resulting in millions of dollars in potential revenue ...

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$5.2 Billion Invested in Cleantech Since January 2007
Green Efforts Insignificant in Winning, Keeping 3PL Business
Google Says Its Data Centers Most Efficient
Geothermal Could Be Answer To Countering Climate Change

Geothermal Could Be Answer To Countering Climate Change

As the world looks for ways to counter climate change and reduce the carbon footprint, the most abundant energy source might be ...

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Miller Recycles 99.9% of Packaging Waste
Credit Crunch Could Hurt Mitsubishi’s Eco-Car Push
What’s The Price Tag For A Carbon Neutral U.S. Economy?
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Apple Unveils ‘Industry’s Greenest Notebook’

Cause Marketing Can Result In Sales Lift

Green Mountain Coffee Helps Vermont Cut Energy Use

Emissions

Italy’s Metal Industry: EU’s Carbon Law Hurts Competitiveness

DHL: Carbon Neutral Supply Chains Possible, Takes Time

Dairy’s Carbon Footprint Drops to 12 Pounds Per Gallon

Hi-Tech

Top 10 Low Power Desktop PCs

Survey: Apple Most Eco-Friendly, Greenpeace Says Different

Google Says Its Data Centers Most Efficient

Efficiency

California Tops ACEEE’s State Energy Efficiency Scorecard

Toyota Announces Utah’s First LEED-certified Dealership

Coffee Bean Opens LEED-Certified Facility in Portland

Manufacturing

The Evolving Green Challenge for Manufacturing

World Steel Association Publishes Sustainability Report

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

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Financial Crisis Threatens EU’s Carbon Plans

Pepsi Bottling Group Cuts 16,000 Tons of Plastic in 2007

Gap Flips Switch On 1 Megawatt Solar Power System

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

PR Agency Warned Starbucks About Wasteful Water Policy

Sun, Pfizer Surpass Carbon Reduction Goals

Green Efforts Insignificant in Winning, Keeping 3PL Business

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