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The latest in a long line of green consumer surveys finds that the market for sustainable products is near a tipping point, but that shoppers want a single score to quickly convey the...
A signficant shift is underway in the how shoppers feel about corporate sustainability: They're no longer faulting companies for being less-than-perfect on green issues, but they want to hear...
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Green innovators and marketers can be guilty of hyping every green innovation as the best solution for every need. There are the problems with forcing niche products on the mass market, and...
Conventional wisdom holds that the best way to bring about sweeping culture change is to jettison old ways and jolt the existing culture into a new reality. Management experts offer a different...
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Top scorer Toyota enjoyed positive public perception of its green credentials, largely due to the Prius, but the company has also worked to make its operations more environmentally friendly....
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What effect does a campaign like Greenpeace's "Dirty Laundry" effort have on the companies targeted and their suppliers?
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From grown-at-home jobs to food safety, shoppers are keen on domestically produced goods. So if your products are made in the USA, you should let that flag fly.
Green marketing -- as it's been practiced -- is over. It needs to instead grow a sense of humor and be expressed in all of its market-changing glory.
Clorox has just offered a sneak peek at a new mobile app designed to showcase the ingredients of its cleaning products, while the EPA is urging software developers to harness the agency's...
Green marketing isn't over, and certainly doesn't need a funeral. But companies that market green products need to stay on top of the latest trends, and here are four tips that can help.
Companies face a barrage of bad publicity if their lobbying or trade association memberships run counter to their publicly stated sustainability goals or value.
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