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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 ...

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 ...

Green Data Center Adoption Stalls

Green Data Center Adoption Stalls
Fifty-one percent of companies have a green data center strategy, according to a Digital Realty Trust survey of ...

Organic Mania Spreads To Clothing

Organic Mania Spreads To Clothing
Gen Y and Millennials, who represent about $520 billion in buying power, are including clothing in their organic purchases, ...

IBM Says Z10 Cuts Energy Costs

IBM Says Z10 Cuts Energy Costs
IBM has unveiled a new mainframe computer, system Z10, which the company says boasts a 50 percent performance boost and dramatically lower ...

New EU CO2 Plans Will Affect Heavy Industry

New EU CO2 Plans Will Affect Heavy Industry
EU officials have acknowledged that a new plan to tighten greenhouse gas admissions will take a toll on the competiveness of some ...

2008 B2B Marketing Forecast

2008 B2B Marketing Forecast
Most B2B marketers (some 60%) plan to increase their 2008 marketing budgets - but fully 79% plan to increase their online ...

Shocker: ‘Natural’ Consumers Willing To Pay More For Green Products

Shocker: ‘Natural’ Consumers Willing To Pay More For Green Products
Most natural-product consumers indicated they would pay more for environmentally friendly products, with seven in 10 consumers willing to pay up to ...

Google Investing Hundreds Of Millions In Renewable Energy Projects

Google Investing Hundreds Of Millions In Renewable Energy Projects
In 2008, Google expects to spend tens of millions on research and development and related investments in renewable energy and to invest ...

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 ...

Japan May Need Tax To Pay Potential Carbon Credit Bill

Japan May Need Tax To Pay Potential Carbon Credit Bill
Japan needs to implement measures to lower greenhouse gas emissions in order to meet Kyoto targets and avoid a bill of as ...

Wal-Mart’s Sustainable Packaging Initiatives Costing Marketers Money

Wal-Mart’s Sustainable Packaging Initiatives Costing Marketers Money
Wal-Mart's sustainability initiative to downsize packaging is costing manufacturers money, AdAge reports. It could cost Procter & Gamble, part ...

Consumer Spending On Green Will Double, Reach $500 Billion In 2008

Consumer Spending On Green Will Double, Reach $500 Billion In 2008
Consumers expect to double their spending on green products and services in the next year, totaling an estimated $500 billion annually or ...

47% Of Gen Y Would Pay More For Green Brands

47% Of Gen Y Would Pay More For Green Brands
Gen Y is split down the middle on the influence a retailer’s environmental policy and sustainability had on their shopping habits with ...

77% Of Companies Anticipate Spending More On Environmental Programs

77% Of Companies Anticipate Spending More On Environmental Programs
Company executives believe that corporate responsibility programs can positively impact their business and help achieve strategic goals, according to a survey of ...

Democrats Want $6.7 Billion To Fight Global Warming

Democrats Want $6.7 Billion To Fight Global Warming
Congress wants to spend as much as $6.7 billion next fiscal year to combat global warming, an increase of nearly one-third from the ...

Developer Yanks Green Village Project

Developer Yanks Green Village Project
After spending $4.8 million and more than two years planning a massive green energy housing and retail project, developer Joshua Knoefler withdrew ...

Equistar Will Spend $125 Million To Address Environmental Violations

Equistar Will Spend $125 Million To Address Environmental Violations
Equistar Chemicals, headquartered in Houston, Texas, will spend more than $125 million on pollution controls and cleanup to address air, water ...

Ford, McDonald’s, IBM, Abbott, Time Inc. To Share Sustainability Strategies

Ford, McDonald’s, IBM, Abbott, Time Inc. To Share Sustainability Strategies
With new sustainability initiatives being launched daily, U.S. companies are under increasing pressure to demonstrate their climate change credentials. Corporate Climate ...

UK Supermarkets Spending Green On Green

UK Supermarkets Spending Green On Green
Most major players in the UK supermarket sector have made pledges to address environmental and sustainability issues, most of which in turn ...

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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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