The Executive’s Daily Green Briefing

Archive for May, 2008

UPS Orders 500 Hybrid, CNG Delivery Trucks

UPS Orders 500 Hybrid, CNG Delivery Trucks
UPS is expanding its U.S. Green Fleet from 50 hybrid electric trucks to 250 (the largest commercial order ...

EU Says ICT Will Lead The Way To Carbon Neutrality

EU Says ICT Will Lead The Way To Carbon Neutrality
The European Commission said it would promote information and communications technologies to help cut EU energy use by 20 percent by ...

DOE: Wind Could Supply 20 Percent of U.S. Electricity By 2030

DOE: Wind Could Supply 20 Percent of U.S. Electricity By 2030
A U.S Department of Energy report examines the possibility of harnessing enough wind power to provide up to ...

Nissan Electric Car Headed To U.S. By 2010

Nissan Electric Car Headed To U.S. By 2010
The Nissan Motor Company has announced plans to sell an electric car in the U.S. and Japan by 2010, ...

Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better
Recycling rates in the U.S. are low and getting lower. The U.S., by far the world's biggest consumer of aluminum ...

Alcoa, Ford, Arcelor Mittal, Wal-Mart Among Brazil GHG Protocol Members

Alcoa, Ford, Arcelor Mittal, Wal-Mart Among Brazil GHG Protocol Members
Twelve founding members of the newly launched Brazil Greenhouse Gas Protocol Program have voluntarily agreed to report their global-warming emissions, the World ...

Consumers Want Brands To Solve Climate Crisis

Consumers Want Brands To Solve Climate Crisis
Consumers are calling on brands to take responsibility for reducing the impact of climate change as governments fail to make progress, according ...

HP Exec On Product Takeback

HP Exec On Product Takeback
Renee St. Denis discusses how Hewlett-Packard's corporate processes and design strategies have evolved in dealing with e-waste, or outdated and discarded PCs, ...

With $100M, Duke Energy Joins Rooftop Solar Movement

With $100M, Duke Energy Joins Rooftop Solar Movement
Duke Energy has invested $100 million in commercial-scale rooftop solar panels, VentureBeat reports. The Charlotte, N.C.-based electric utility will ...

Consumers Reward Good Corporate Behavior - Unless There’s A Big Sale

Consumers Reward Good Corporate Behavior - Unless There’s A Big Sale
While consumers are willing to pay a premium for ethically made goods, they will also buy unethically made products ...

Green Meetings Don’t Have To Cost More Green

Green Meetings Don’t Have To Cost More Green
Corporate social responsibility mandates are one factor that is leading to more green, and, for planners, more complicated meetings, ...

McCain Calls For Mandatory Limit On Emissions

McCain Calls For Mandatory Limit On Emissions
Sen. John McCain has called for a mandatory limit on greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S., the New York ...

Green Job Sector Booming

Green Job Sector Booming
With the help of billions of dollars in private investment and local and state government incentives, the alternative energy ...

Kohl’s Installing Solar Power On 50 More Stores

Kohl’s Installing Solar Power On 50 More Stores
Kohl's Department Stores plans to convert more than 50 of its existing stores in New Jersey, Connecticut and Maryland ...

Westpac Demands Sustainability From Suppliers

Westpac Demands Sustainability From Suppliers
Australian banking company Westpac will ask more than 10,000 of its suppliers to meet its new Sustainable Supply Chain ...

Belief In Global Warming Slips

Belief In Global Warming Slips
The proportion of Americans who say that the earth is getting warmer has decreased since January 2007, mostly because of a decline ...

Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market

Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market
Big companies are pushing research to bring greener products to market, according to this CNN video....

Prince Of Wales Among Rainforest Alliance Sustainability Award Winners

Prince Of Wales Among Rainforest Alliance Sustainability Award Winners
The Rainforest Alliance announced the companies and individuals it is recognizing for their work with the alliance on making sustainable supply chain ...

Don’t Let The Economy Shut Down Your CSR Initiatives

Don’t Let The Economy Shut Down Your CSR Initiatives
CRO has compiled a list of ways companies can stay responsible during an economic slowdown: Make corporate responsibility initiatives a bigger priority ...

Used Fry Grease Rich Target For Grease Gangs…Seriously

Used Fry Grease Rich Target For Grease Gangs…Seriously
With grease being used to make biodiesel, and its price tripling in the past two years, thieves are breaking ...

Today's News

Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

Recycling rates in the U.S. are low and getting lower. The U.S., by far the world's biggest consumer of aluminum ... continue »

Using Green IT To Get Out Of The Red And Into The Black
Measuring, Managing, Saving: Making Energy Efficiency Visible
Lean And Clean With Green Purchasing
‘Recyclable’ Is So Last-Century
Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of financial institution executives say they plan to build new or undergo a major remodel of an existing ...

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Consumers Want Brands To Solve Climate Crisis
Belief In Global Warming Slips
U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior
Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

This promotional video features restaurateurs discussing sustainable solutions and Conserve, the environmental initiative of the National Restaurant Association....

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Polar Bears On Thin Ice, Listed As ‘Threatened’
HP Exec On Product Takeback
Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Consumers Reward Good Corporate Behavior - Unless There’s A Big Sale

Green Meetings Don’t Have To Cost More Green

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

Emissions

Mars Snackfood Unwraps Landfill Gas Project

Honeywell, Airbus, JetBlue, IAE Developing Aviation Biofuel

EnerNOC Buys Offsets To Remain Carbon Neutral

Hi-Tech

EPS Developing Energy Use Monitoring System

Dell To Increase PC Energy Efficiency 25% By 2010

HP Exec On Product Takeback

Efficiency

Restaurants Explore Sustainability With ‘Conserve’ Initiative

ASHRAE Best Design Practices Could Cut Warehouse Energy Use 30%

Environmental Initiatives Top Of Mind For Financial Services Execs

Manufacturing

Dupont, Genencor Invest $140M In Cellulosic Ethanol Joint Venture

Smart Papers Installing Honeywell Biomass Co-Gen Plant

Ford Racks Up Another Environmental First

Carbon Offsets/RECs

Voluntary Carbon Market Tripled In 2007, Hit $331M

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

RGGI Cap And Trade To Go Online Sept. 10

CSR Reports

Starbucks Plans Renewable Energy Buy, Green Building Standards

Brazilian, Indian Companies Dominate GRI Reporting Awards

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

Major Players

Recycle To Save Energy–The Sooner The Better

With $100M, Duke Energy Joins Rooftop Solar Movement

Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market

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