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Consumers express growing interest in purchasing greener products despite growing skepticism about environmental marketing claims. Can both be true?
by Joel Makower
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In the future, it seems, we’re all model green citizens, at least in our minds.
by Joel Makower
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The best of live interviews from GreenBiz events. This episode: Can we move the needle on safe and nontoxic ingredients in the cosmetics industry?
by Joel Makower
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The best of live GreenBiz events. This episode: Justin Whitmore from Tyson Foods on why the company is going beyond just chicken nuggets.
by Joel Makower
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The best of live interviews from GreenBiz events. On this episode: McDonald's engages consumers to be part of the solution to end waste.
by Joel Makower
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There’s been a long-held idea that Americans’ environmental concerns tracks the economy. In fact, the opposite is happening.
by Joel Makower
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It takes more than reward points to lure a city's residents to recycle. It takes behavioral research and more than a little ingenuity.
by Joel Makower
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The economy is back. Are Americans finally interested in environmental issues? My eighth annual round-up of public opinion.
by Joel Makower
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Can the iconoclastic company that advertised "Don't buy this jacket" convince consumers and other companies to change the economy for good?
by Joel Makower
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When it comes to making environmental decisions, consumers are dazed and confused. Who's to blame? Companies, of course.
by Joel Makower
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A former Walmart exec hooks up with a longtime activist and entrepreneur. Can their startup make reusing seem cool?
by Joel Makower
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It's an unprecedented opportunity.What issues would you choose? What messages would you impart? How would you leverage the opportunity to affect behavior change at scale?
by Joel Makower
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Our annual spring roundup of the latest U.S. consumer polling data finds a large trust gap between consumers and companies and a failure to communicate effectively about sustainability.
by Joel Makower
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The second in our series of the 10 biggest trends in corporate sustainability in 2012 looks at the many ways, subtle and not-so-subtle, that companies are working to create business value while reducing overall consumption.
by Joel Makower
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A pair of recent surveys suggest that as Americans get smarter on energy and environmental issues, they’re less willing to take action. Oh, and don't make going green seem too feminine.
by Joel Makower
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What will sustainable products and services look like at the end of this decade? A new study takes a look.
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by Joel Makower
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A seven-year-old company, backed by some A-list venture capital firms, is hellbent on nudging millions of people along a greener path , and making a bundle along the way. It just may pull it off.
by Joel Makower
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There's plenty of hard work to do on the journey from here to sustainability. Dilly-dallying with green marketing come-ons is a distraction. Here are five reasons we should declare defeat.
by Joel Makower
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Each spring brings a bumper crop of new surveys and market research on green consumers. Here's what's sprouted this year.
by Joel Makower
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In the first of our series on the biggest trends in green business practices in 2010, we look at the ways the world's biggest consumer brands -- P&G, Unilever, Kraft and others -- have stepped off the sidelines and into the green arena.
by Joel Makower
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For all the sound and fury over deceptive, disingenuous corporations seeking to falsely create a green image, the biggest offenders of greenwash aren't companies, politicians, the mainstream media or environmental groups.
by Joel Makower
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April brings the latest crop of pre-Earth Day surveys. Spoiler alert: It's not a pretty picture.
by Joel Makower
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The author of the 1990 book "The Green Consumer" (and the founder of GreenBiz.com) looks back at 20 years of green consumerism and ponders whether the whole exercise is a distraction.
by Joel Makower