By Marisa Greenwald (Green Marketing & Sustainability Practice, Grossman Marketing Group) Ceres’ report, titled “21st Century Corporation: The Ceres Roadmap to Sustainability” which it released earlier this spring, contains noteworthy proposals for corporate governance and green marketing. As a network of investors, environmental organizations and public interest groups, Ceres incorporates the private sector perspective into [...]
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Highlights of Ceres Roadmap to Sustainability
Posted in Data/Report, sustainability, tagged apple, best practices, ceres, green marketing, grossman marketing group, sustainability, zipcar on June 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Green business: chief sustainability officers, product innovation and employee education
Posted in External Resources, sustainability, tagged CNBC, conscious consumers, CSO, employee education, product innovation, sustainability on January 15, 2010 | 2 Comments »
An interesting article was posted on CNBC.com last week by Aman Singh, who is an editor with Vault and works with Fortune 500 companies on reporting their diversity recruitment strategies and initiatives. The piece started: Let’s face it. Even though nothing came out of Copenhagen, awareness of easily avoidable phrases like “climate change,” “green careers,” [...]
Follow up to key idea from the Environmental Defense Unconference: Corporate Collaboration on Sustainability
Posted in External Resources, sustainability, tagged best practices, collaboration, Environmental Defense, going green, New York Times, sustainability on November 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On this blog, my summer colleague, Lenora Deslandes, discussed her observations on the Environmental Defense Unconference in Boston. One of the main ideas she highlighted was the need for companies to share best practices in sustainability in order to advance our common good. Therefore, I was excited to read in the New York Times this [...]
Preview of Graphic Design USA’s Green Issue
Posted in External Resources, tagged GDUSA, green design, green marketing, green printing, grossman marketing group, sustainability on October 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Graphic Design USA, a leading industry magazine, published a Green Issue last fall which included some very useful resources for marketing professionals. They are releasing this year’s issue on October 15th. They distributed a preview e-newsletter yesterday and I was excited that my firm, Grossman Marketing Group, was included along with some other excellent design [...]
Highlighting some best practice leaders in sustainable political communication
Posted in green printing, sustainability, tagged fundraising mail, sustainability, Waxman-Markey, wind power on September 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The recent passage of the American Clean Energy and Security Act, better known as Waxman-Markey (named for its sponsors Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA)), marks the beginning of a long-term effort to rein in greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. At the same time, to ensure a bright clean energy [...]
Highlights from Environmental Defense Green Business Unconference
Posted in Data/Report, sustainability, tagged Boston University, citizens bank, dig in, Environmental Defense, sodexo, Stop & Shop, sustainability, unconference on June 26, 2009 | 6 Comments »
By Lenora Deslandes (Green Marketing & Sustainability Practice, Grossman Marketing Group) Sustainability and the environment have been my main areas of study for the past three years at Boston University. After speaking with professors about issues and serving as an active member of a wide array of sustainability initiatives on the BU campus, I decided [...]
An inside look at the greening of Harvard Business School
Posted in Data/Report, External Resources, sustainability, tagged best practices, co2, environment, fossil fuels, going green, harvard, hbs, Renewable Energy, solar energy, sustainability on June 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’m pleased to include a guest post from Katharine Randel, who is a staff member of the Marketing Unit at Harvard Business School, as well as a member of the school’s Green Team. I met Kathy earlier this year when I gave a presentation on green marketing and green business issues to the HBS Green [...]
Recent award for green marketing leadership
Posted in External Resources, PR, sustainability, tagged green marketing, green printing, grossman marketing group, NEDMA, sustainability, wind power, zipcar on May 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was honored and humbled to receive the 2009 New England Direct Marketing Association Prodigy Award, for my work in the green marketing and sustainability space. I received the award at the NEDMA 2009 Annual Conference held earlier this month at Bentley College in Waltham, Massachusetts. According to NEDMA, the Prodigy Award is given each [...]
The critical importance of transparency as part of sustainable communications – Ad Age
Posted in Data/Report, External Resources, sustainability, tagged advertising age, clownfish, conscious consumers, green marketing, sustainability on May 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As most of those who read Sustainable Ink regularly know, I’ve been an advocate for transparency in everything individuals and companies do. I’m pleased to share an article that Diana Verde Nieto (CEO of Clownfish, a sustainability and communications consultancy based in the U.K.) wrote for Advertising Age, titled: The Four C’s of Survival: How [...]
