The Executive’s Daily Green Briefing

Archive for ‘Education’

Colleges Get Web-Based Environmental Compliance Tool

Colleges Get Web-Based Environmental Compliance Tool
A new Web site that provides environmental compliance assistance and pollution prevention information for colleges and universities has ...

Green Stadium Planned For University Of Minnesota

Green Stadium Planned For University Of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota wants to build the most environmentally friendly major sports stadium in the country, according to Discovery News Video....

NCAA Schools Big On Environmental Initiatives

NCAA Schools Big On Environmental Initiatives
With March Madness upon us, Juice Energy has put together a list of what the leading conferences are ...

Zurn, Eaton Launch Green Building Website

Zurn, Eaton Launch Green Building Website
Eaton Corporation is the first company to join a new green initiative launched by commercial plumbing products manufacturer Zurn ...

Demand For Organic Food Grows On Campuses

Demand For Organic Food Grows On Campuses
College students are demanding that schools purchase regional produce, AdAge reports. That's forced major food-service companies to look ...

IBM Launches PowerUp - Online Climate Change Game

IBM Launches PowerUp - Online Climate Change Game
A new IBM promotion comes in the form of a free multiplayer online game, PowerUp, that challenges players to help save ...

CCCCD Solar Installation Could Save $70 Million Over 25 Years

CCCCD Solar Installation Could Save $70 Million Over 25 Years
Contra Costa Community College District has completed the first phase of the largest solar power installation ever constructed ...

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 ...

MBAs Pick Gold Over Green

MBAs Pick Gold Over Green
Ninety-five percent of 527 MBA students surveyed by PR firm Hill & Knowlton  ranked "career opportunites" among the most important factor ...

Colleges On Board With Virtualization

Colleges On Board With Virtualization
Following the lead of corporate counterparts, colleges and universities are adopting the green technology of server virtualization.Server virtualization is the process ...

Green Awareness Remains High, Green Purchases Up

Green Awareness Remains High, Green Purchases Up
“Going Green” awareness continues to be high, according to research from Intellitrends. Relative to recent news regarding the environment and “going ...

U.S. and Iran Agree More Environmental Education Needed

U.S. and Iran Agree More Environmental Education Needed
Despite their many differences, Iran and the U.S. seem to agree on something these days. At the U.N. Conference on Climate Change ...

Fresno State Solar Installation To Provide 20% Of Power Needs

Fresno State Solar Installation To Provide 20% Of Power Needs
Fresno State has completed a large-scale solar power installation that will supply 20 percent of the university's annual power needs. The 1.1-megawatt ...

Colleges Get Graded On Sustainability

Colleges Get Graded On Sustainability
Colleges across the U.S. and Canada are stepping up green practices and policies, with more than two out of three schools improving ...

Gore, IPCC Win Nobel For Global Warming Work

Gore, IPCC Win Nobel For Global Warming Work
Al Gore and to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the Nobel Prize for its work to alert the world ...

BP Strikes In-Game Ad Deal, Becomes SimCity’s Alt Energy Provider

BP Strikes In-Game Ad Deal, Becomes SimCity’s Alt Energy Provider
Electronic Arts and BP have collaborated to include climate change education within SimCity Societies, the next iteration of the city-building ...

SustainLane Opens Government Knowledge Base To General Public

SustainLane Opens Government Knowledge Base To General Public
The SustainLane Government Knowledge Base was open only to government officials until just recently, which it became accessible to the general ...

Nokia, Vodafone Back Mobile Services Info Site For NGOs

Nokia, Vodafone Back Mobile Services Info Site For NGOs
Nokia and Vodafone have launched a new website designed to help share ideas on how to use mobile communications for social ...

College Leaders Pledge To Go Carbon Neutral

College Leaders Pledge To Go Carbon Neutral
Representatives of 284 colleges introduced the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment, a pledge to make their operations carbon neutral, ...

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
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 ...

click to view full size chart »

U.S. Lags Behind On Green Consumption And Behavior
Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking
eCommerce Goes Green
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....

click to view video »

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper
China’s Plastic Bag Crackdown Is Windfall For Cloth Bag-Makers
Customer CSR Expectations Top Of Mind For CEOs
The Bottom Line

Marketing

Green Meetings Don’t Have To Cost More Green

Green Marketing Campaigns Not Sticking

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

Emissions

McCain Calls For Mandatory Limit On Emissions

Kohl’s Installing Solar Power On 50 More Stores

Companies Respond To Climate Change Shareholder Resolutions

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

Starwood Going Green With Element Hotels

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

Sony, Mohawk Bring Greener Products To Market

Tour Of Citigroup’s Green Skyscraper

Food Services Industry Hammered On Climate Performance

See All Topics »