Dr. Letitia Wright, LA Business Book Review Examiner, wrote the following about The Secret Green Sauce: “This is a different way to thinking about the green market. Need a human resources plan? He covers it. Need to engage your CFO? He covers it. Need a strategic plan? He covers that too! Most business books will [...]
Is this picture our renewable energy future? Look at the technology deployed. There are the obvious solar panels. But there is also a battery storage system that would enable this outdoor light to operate at night using solar electricity generated and stored during the day. And there is the worker installing this technology on an [...]
Top 10 Cities Buying Organic:
1. San Diego
2. Seattle/Tacoma
3. Philadelphia
4. San Francisco/Oakland/San Jose
5. Washington DC/Hagerstowon, MD
6. Portland, Ore
7. Denver
8. Baltimore
9. Sacramento/Stockton/Modestso, CA
10. Colorado Springs/Pueblo, Colo.
Source: MRI’s Market-by-Market study
The following are the top 10 CEOs identified in a Harvard Business Review article:
1. Steve Jobs
2. Yun Jong-Yong, Samsung Electronics (South Korea)
3. Alexey B. Miller, Gazprom (Russia)
4. John T. Chambers, Cisco Systems (U.S.)
5. Mukesh D. Ambani, Reliance Industries (India)
6. John C. Martin, Gilead Sciences (U.S.)
7. Jeffrey P. Bezos, Amazon.com (U.S.)
8. Margaret C. Whitman, eBay (U.S.)
9. Eric E. Schmidt, Google (U.S.)
10. Hugh Grant, Monsanto (U.S.).
Why these [...]
Thank you to those who wave the flag of “Greenwashing” at those who are not walking their talk.
I work with businesses across the country and I can confirm that the fear of being tarred with greenwashing is a motivating force firmly in place inside Corporate America. However, I am also beginning to see evidence [...]
Read this research by Experian Simmons. It is a fantastic example of pricing execution by the oil companies. It also begs a public policy question of whether the exceptional pricing ability of the oil companies is contributing toward “memory loss” by consumers of gasoline’s longer term price consequences? Is short term price signals helping or [...]
Much has been promised in terms of job growth by going green. Next 10 has just released a study that reports California, currently mired in double digit unemployment has achieved double digit green job growth.
The study concludes that “California green businesses have increased 45 percent in number and 36 percent in employment from 1995 to [...]
Article published in RenewableEnergyWorld.com by Annie Carmichael and Shaun Chapman of Vote Solar profiles how 15 states have now passed legislation enabling a local government to offer financing for solar and energy efficiency additions to a building through property tax payments.
In the mid-1990’s while serving as the General Marketing Manager for Georgia Power I had the honor of managing the team of exceptionally bright people that designed an industry-pioneering meter-linked, integrated real time pricing/demand side management program. Today I understand this legacy system now bills $2 billion annually on the Southern Company system, a utility [...]
Research by Scarborough Research, http://www.weknowthelocals.com identified the following cities where the most adults have consumed organic food in the past month:
San Francisco Bay Area
Seattle/Tacoma
Austin, Texas
Denver
Portland, Oregon
San Diego
Honolulu
Washington, D.C.
Boston
LA
What’s missing? The South and Midwest!
ANALYSIS: In 2008 the United States consumed $25 billion of organic foods. The industry has been experiencing 15+% annual growth rates. With this [...]
