The Executive’s Daily Green Briefing

Archive for May, 2008

Companies Respond To Climate Change Shareholder Resolutions

Companies Respond To Climate Change Shareholder Resolutions
Of the 20 shareholder resolutions filed with companies by Domini Social Investments for the 2008 proxy season, six concerned ...

Virtual Hotel Aims To Improve Industry Sustainability

Virtual Hotel Aims To Improve Industry Sustainability
InterContinental Hotels Group has announced an online Innovation Hotel, to gather feedback from travelers about "green" features that ...

Popularity Of Energy Efficiency Utilities Grows

Popularity Of Energy Efficiency Utilities Grows
Efficiency Vermont, an independent nonprofit provider of energy-efficient services, has helped close to 60 percent of the state's electricity ...

Study: Builders Slow To Embrace Green

Study: Builders Slow To Embrace Green
A green building study by the Boston College Institute for Responsible Investment and investment management group Calvert Group found ...

Starwood Going Green With Element Hotels

Starwood Going Green With Element Hotels
Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide is introducing Element Hotels, a green hotel chain, scheduled to open this July ...

Environmental Throwdown At Duke Shareholders’ Meeting

Environmental Throwdown At Duke Shareholders’ Meeting
Duke Energy's plans for new coal and nuclear plants did not please all who attended the company's recent shareholder ...

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 ...

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

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

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First
Ford has become the first automaker to join The Climate Registry. Ford recently became the first U.S. auto ...

Slower Trucks Could Save 31.5M Tons Of CO2 Emissions

Slower Trucks Could Save 31.5M Tons Of CO2 Emissions
The American Trucking Associations has launched the first-ever industry-wide environmental sustainability program under the banner Trucks Deliver a ...

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

Adam Werbach’s Answer To Consumerism’s Global Warming Blues
In an article in AdvertisingAge, Adam Werbach, CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi S, says that with a tougher regulatory environment, and ...

EBay Tops List Of Largest Solar Installations In San Jose

EBay Tops List Of Largest Solar Installations In San Jose
Energy efficiency was the winning bidder in the construction of the first new building eBay has built in its ...

Brazilian, Indian Companies Dominate GRI Reporting Awards

Brazilian, Indian Companies Dominate GRI Reporting Awards
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has announced the winners of the Readers' Choice Awards for sustainability reporting The winning reports, as ...

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

CSR: Chevron To Invest $2.5B in Alternative, Renewable Energy Tech
Chevron's latest Corporate Responsibility Report highlights future investments of $2.5 billion through 2009 in alternative and renewable energy technologies, reduced total ...

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

China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers
As plastic bags litter China's countryside the government is putting the pressure on the manufacturers, good news for China's cloth bag industry....

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking
Seventy-one percent of North Americans want to know about the socially responsible behavior of brands they buy - but the majority of ...

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 ...

Cutting The Internet’s Carbon Footprint

Cutting The Internet’s Carbon Footprint
Academics and researchers from Intel and Microsoft are putting the Internet under the microscope, developing strategies to cut the ...

eCommerce Goes Green

eCommerce Goes Green
B2B and B2C online sellers are increasingly adopting environmentally friendly business practices, according to research (download here) from Online Market World. The ...

Dell Fends Off Blog Critics With Sustainable Packaging Fixes

Dell Fends Off Blog Critics With Sustainable Packaging Fixes
Earth Day posts on blogs like The Consumerist and Gizmodo (the photo is from Gizmodo) prompted Dell ...

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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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