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Using Community Involvement as Part of Your Green Marketing and CSR Strategy

By Sofia_Ribeiro on March 29, 2010 2 Comments bottom line, brand image, Cone Inc, cooperation.local communities, CSR, CSR strategy, customer loyalty, environment, environmental commitment, environmentally responsible, good cause, Green Marketing, increased productivity, Kiwano Marketing, life cycle, Marketing Journal, marketing strategies, Millennial Cause Study, morale, operational efficiency, profit, reputation, retain employees, RFP, socially responsible, sofia ribeiro, word-of-mouth

Community involvement has a number of benefits for businesses implementing green marketing and corporate social responsibility programs. They include: preferential government and regulatory treatment; enhanced reputation and brand image in that community; increased profit and customer loyalty;creates new business opportunities;increased ability to attract and retain employees; increased ability to attract and retain employees; innovation in market through cooperation with local communities; and innovation in market through cooperation with local communities.

New York State Offshore Wind Request For Proposals

By Chris de Morsella on January 7, 2010 1 Comment cleantech, fossil fuel, Great Lakes Offshore Wind Project, green economy, green energy, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario, New York, New York Power Authority, NY, NYPA, offshore wind power, Power Purchase Agreement, PPA, request for proposals, RFP, sustainability, sustainable power, upstate New York, wind energy

The New York Power Authority (NYPA) released a request for proposals (RFP) for the development of offshore wind power projects in the New York State waters of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. by Chris de Morsella, Green Economy Post In order to begin reducing New York State’s dependence on fossil fuel for electric generation and […]

A Day in The Life of a Chief Sustainability Officer

By Kathrin Winkler on November 10, 2009 6 Comments APJ., Battery regulations, best practices, Climate Corps, corporate sustainability, CSO, data sets, DESC, E3, EHS, EMC, energy consumption, energy efficiency, Energy Star, engineering, Engineering's Energy Efficiency and Effectiveness, environment, environmental, Environmental Sustainability Board, eWaste regulation, facilities, GHG emissions, Green Business, Green Champions, Green-IT, Innovation Conference, mentoring, Principles of Environmental Sustainability, procurement, product compliance, ranking, renewable energy, RFP, risks, social, strategy, supply chain, sustainability, The Green Grid, vendor, waste, WEEE, WEF, WRI

The following is an account of one day on the job with Kathrin Winkler. She is Sr. Director and Chief Sustainability Officer at EMC Corporation, where she has a history of taking on entirely new roles in which she has to fill in the interstices between more traditional functions. She took on the full-time sustainability position in July of 2008.

The City of Palo Alto Issues Renewable Energy Request For Proposal (RFP)

By Chris de Morsella on October 22, 2009 1 Comment Bay area, biomass, CA, California, Carolynn Bissett, digester gas, environmental, Fuel Cells, Geothermal, landfill gas, municipal solid waste conversion, ocean thermal, ocean wave, Palo Alto, photovoltaic, renewable electric power, renewable energy, renewable energy request for proposal, renewable energy RFP, request for proposal, RFP, San Francisco, silicon valley, small hydroelectric, solar thermal, tidal energy, wave energy, wind

Palo Alto, a chartered city located in Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area in northern California has put out a Request for Proposal (RFP), seeking proposals to provide electric power generated by renewable resources. The city is seeking contracts for power for terms ranging from five years to 30 years from eligible renewable resources.