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Green Ad Recall Good, Trust Another Story

Green Ad Recall Good, Trust Another Story
Consumer recall of advertising with “green” messaging is high - more than one-third of consumers (37.1%) say they frequently recall green ...

Environmental News Snippets: Toyota, Hummer, Royal Caribbean - 4.25.08

Environmental News Snippets: Toyota, Hummer, Royal Caribbean - 4.25.08
MillionTreesNYC Announces Toyota as a New Driving Force Behind Campaign to Plant One Million Trees by 2017 MillionTreesNYC, a public-private ...

Price Sensitivity of Environmentally-Friendly Products

Price Sensitivity of Environmentally-Friendly Products
According to Natural Marketing Institute’s 2007 LOHAS Consumer Trends Database, price is still a very important factor for determining purchase propensity. ...

As Goes Wal-Mart…Retailer Says Green Product Adoption Up In 2007

As Goes Wal-Mart…Retailer Says Green Product Adoption Up In 2007
Wal-Mart has announced an adoption rate increase of 66 percent from last year in its sustainability Live Better Index, which has ...

Kraft, Marks & Spencer Among Sustainable Packaging Award Winners

DuPont has announced the winners of the 20th DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation, which recognized "achievements that improve the ...

Planet Green Prepares For Launch

Planet Green Prepares For Launch
Planet Green is hoping to tap into corporate America's new focus on eco friendliness. The channel will launch June 4th and its ...

Environmental News Snippets: Unilever, Dell, Goodyear, Evian - 4.23.08

Environmental News Snippets: Unilever, Dell, Goodyear, Evian - 4.23.08
Unilever targeted in orang-utan protest Environmental protesters dressed as orang-utans today staged demonstrations against the consumer goods giant Unilever to ...

Recession Or Not, Consumers Pay More For Green Products

Recession Or Not, Consumers Pay More For Green Products
While consumer spending has fallen in many categories due to a weakened U.S. economy and budget tightening, Americans are still willing to ...

Environmental News Snippets: Yahoo, Shell, AMD, Ricoh, Think - 4.22.08

Environmental News Snippets: Yahoo, Shell, AMD, Ricoh, Think - 4.22.08
Think To Bring All-Electric Cars To U.S. Next Year Think Global, the Norwegian company making an all-electric town car, has ...

Stop & Shop, Gen Mills Partner On Earth Day Promo

Stop & Shop, Gen Mills Partner On Earth Day Promo
Supermarket company Stop & Shop and General Mills have launched an Earth Day initiative. From April 18 to April ...

Coke’s Quest For Eco-Friendly Vending Machines Hits Snag

Coke’s Quest For Eco-Friendly Vending Machines Hits Snag
Companies like GE, Wal-Mart, and Procter & Gamble have found it difficult at times to get their customers and ...

MIO Founder Jaime Salm On Sustainable Design

MIO Founder Jaime Salm On Sustainable Design
Greenerbusiness interview with Jaime Salm, founder of MIO, the sustainable design firm based out of Philadelphia....

Carbon Cutting On Bon Appetit’s Menu

Carbon Cutting On Bon Appetit’s Menu
Beginning on Earth Day, national food service contractor Bon Appetit Management Company, which serves 80 million meals a ...

Staples Launches Online Green Catalog For Contract Customers

Staples Launches Online Green Catalog For Contract Customers
Just one week after Office Depot announced a new line of green products, Staples, has launched the ...

McDonald’s Trims Trips To The Landfill

McDonald’s Trims Trips To The Landfill
McDonald's has been running a trial program at 11 Sheffield, UK restaurants to save on the rising cost of ...

Anheuser-Busch Plans New Environmental TV Spots

Anheuser-Busch Plans New Environmental TV Spots
Starting the week of April 21, Anheuser-Busch will air four new TV spots featuring employees discussing the company's environmental ...

Shipping Industry Floats Emissions Tax

Shipping Industry Floats Emissions Tax
Transport costs for raw materials are likely to rise due to a new marine fuel tax planned by the ...

Enterprise Opens Green Branches

Enterprise Opens Green Branches
Enterprise Rent-A-Car has designated four of its locations in Atlanta "Green Branches." Hybrids and fuel-efficient vehicles will make up around ...

More Than 70% Of Public Aware Of Energy Star Label

More Than 70% Of Public Aware Of Energy Star Label
Public awareness of the Energy Star label has grown to more than 70 percent in 2008, an increase of about 20 percentage ...

Air New Zealand Launches Carbon Offset Program

Air New Zealand Launches Carbon Offset Program
Air New Zealand has launched a voluntarily carbon offset program. It's only for New Zealanders at this stage, but will be ...

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 ...

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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....

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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

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