Shifting Consumer Behavior: The New Performance Indicators For Being Green Brita's Filter for Good campaign inspires concert goers to move away from plastic waste and toward a smart filtered solution when hydrating during the show. Such behavioral influences in our "play" environments can only serve to shift the way we relate to water and waste in our every day lives.
Updated Fri Jun 10, 2011
Green Leadership at The Grammys When leadership in an industry converges on a stage to discuss how their individual programs have lead to a collective shift in the entire equation, you have to admire the process unfolding in front of your eyes.
Updated Tue Mar 1, 2011
Throwing the Light Bulb Out With the Bath Water There are hidden costs to "going green." While many companies are manufacturing products made from plant or corn-based polymers, others are quick to point out that the corn industry may use as much--if not more--petroleum. And There are other perceived hypocrisies.
Thu Nov 4, 2010
Women in Corporate Leadership Today - More About Necessity Than Equality Over the past few years, I have been watching the role of women increase at the global level. Corporate initiatives such as that of Cisco, Nike, and The Cola Cola Company have embraced the position of women not only within the corporation, but also within the communities they operate. Micro-lending is done predominantly to women with the knowledge that bringing women into the world economy is the predominant ingredient in developing a community, if not a nation.
Sun Oct 17, 2010
Healthier Families & Homes: How Consumer Product Companies Are Stepping up Chemical Safety With all of the conversation in the Gulf and the health effects of humans and wildlife, toxicity is a growing concern among Americans. This article outlines some ways we can educate yourself about chemical safety in consumer products, and personal care products, for our families and in our homes.
Wed Jun 9, 2010
The Green Education of Our Future Leaders The most important thing we can being doing today is educating our kids and future leaders on sustainability and environmentalism.
Tue Apr 27, 2010
METHOD, More of an Organism Than an Organization? “We are not in the soap business, we are in the clean business” - Adam Lowry, Co-founder of Method Products
Thu Mar 11, 2010
GreenBuild, Opportunity Green and Good And Green: Overall Trend in Companies who Are Planning to Stay Green Conference in Fall of 2009 are showing the companies with the strongest strategies who are planning for the future.
Posted Wed Nov 25, 2009
An Interview with a Corporate Green Hero Bonnie Nixon, HP's corporate sustainability director, drives major change and serves as a leader for us all.
Posted Mon Nov 2, 2009
What Can The USA Learn From Iceland Regarding Clean Energy? Yesterday (September 22), President Obama addressed the United Nations Climate Change Summit with a speech focused on how the United States is "determined" to combat Climate Change. While the Waxman-Markey bill has been held up in the Senate, and the president's attentions have centered around Healthcare reform, many of us have been left wondering where we stand on the issue, eight months into this new administration.
Posted Wed Sep 23, 2009
Companies Embrace Innovation Through Their Buildings This morning, I attended a private tour of the new Eco Office at Southface Energy Institute in Atlanta, Georgia.
Posted Fri Jul 24, 2009
Big Businesses Move Closer to Real Sustainable Innovation This month seems to be the season for corporate gatherings, particularly in the sustainability world. Perhaps the “green” enthusiasts prefer to gather when the weather is warmer. Two weeks ago, I participated in the Sustainable Brands (SB) ‘09 conference in Monterey, Ca. This was my third SB conference and I noted a very big transition from those that I had previously attended.
Posted Wed Jun 17, 2009
How to Reduce Restaurant Waste and Cost by Over 50% AND Power a City
Last week I had the benefit of meeting the team that is revolutionizing the way restaurants will look at their waste. The group is Fox Pollutions Systems from the UK and Germany and I met them in the corporate offices of Ted’s Montana Grill. They have developed a unit which is installed in restaurants to capture the food prep and table scraps that would otherwise be hauled off with the garbage. In the case of some dense communities (such as Manhattan), the cost of hauling off food waste is attached to a tip fees in the hundreds of millions of dollars annually.
Posted Wed May 13, 2009
Leader in Corporate Sustainability Arena Comments on Wal-Mart's Position Scott Seydel remarks on my recent post on Conscious Capitalism as it relates to Wal-Mart.
Posted Wed Apr 1, 2009
Jack Welch, A Proponent of Conscious Capitalism? Right now, denizens of young corporate leaders and entrepreneurs who are fighting the good fight –getting investors and their corporate leaders on board with new and more sustainable ways to view business – are perking up at the recent words from former GE Chairman and CEO, Jack Welch. If you have been reading my blog, you have followed my discussions of sustainability as a part of corporate consciousness for the past months. Today, I was pointed towards the latest word from Mr. Welch, publically stating that it was “a dumb idea” for executives to focus so heavily on quarterly profits and share price gains. Wait, wasn’t it Welch who originally created the “shareholder value movement” in the early 80s?
Posted Wed Mar 25, 2009
Building Green Cities Online with Renewable Energy Online games which teach us how to retool our world are extremely valuable in educationing ourselves and the next generation, but we must be mindful that the lessons are real.
Posted Mon Mar 16, 2009
Free and Clean for All: Corporate Global Responsibility Issues of Water: It’s our responsibility to take a stronger position with water that’s not just about water pollution (that position should be table stakes to any corporation in business in the world today), but more about ready and available sources. It’s about a desire to reduce our TAKE from the total supply; our responsibility to not draw water from sources which cannot be replenished or taken from communities who have no other source of clean available water and turn around and sell it back to them.
Posted Wed Feb 25, 2009
New Shades of Green: Adapting to Our Partner's Green Goals As I reach out to my partners in the world of corporate sustainability directors, we are all asking how we can provide our corporations with truly ROI-driven sustainable programs. And, how can we bring these projects to our companies in a timely manner to yield immediate returns in the form of corporate profits.
Posted Tue Feb 17, 2009
Mother Nature Network: Online Media Finally Catches up to Sustainability Needs January launched many new beginnings for our country. One I want to highlight today is the launch of the Mother Nature Network(www.mnn.com), a website created by marketing guru and veteran Joel Babbit, and tree farmer and music industry legend Chuck Leavell (keyboardist for the Rolling Stones).
Posted Wed Feb 4, 2009
Can a New Administration Spur Innovation in Design? Regardless of political leanings, for most of us, we agree that this has undoubtedly been a significant week in history. I have contemplated all week about how I could speak about this momentous transition and not just be one more blog entry about Barack Obama. Clearly, our country is poised for change. Yet, this change does not simply surround financial stimulus or halting terrorism or overhauling healthcare.
Posted Fri Jan 23, 2009
