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September 22nd, 2010

“Sustainable Products” to Get a Boost from the EPA

by Perry Goldschein

EPA Sustainable Products

Even as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) just announced transition out of its popular Climate Leaders Program, it looked to get more involved with “sustainable products.”

EPA announced last week that it’s currently defining its role and developing a strategy to further the development, manufacture, designation, and use of sustainable products. Organizations impacted by this new EPA effort may include those that “manufacture, distribute, label, certify, verify, and purchase or use . . . products that may be considered as ‘green,’ ‘sustainable,’ or ‘environmentally preferable.’”

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September 14th, 2010

Integrate Corporate & Brand Sustainability Efforts for Greater Impact

By Beth Bengtson

As many of the Global 2000 companies kick their sustainability initiatives up a notch or two, we are consistently seeing a disconnect between these programs at the corporate and brand levels.  Much of the work being done at the corporate level is not effectively being shared and integrated into the relevant brands owned by a corporation; and vice versa, there are often cause-related campaigns, for example, occurring via a specific brand that do not get included in corporate communications around sustainability issues.

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September 2nd, 2010

FTC Ending Green Marketing’s “Wild West?” Top 4 Things to Know

by Perry Goldschein

The FTC’s imminent release of its first new “Green Guidelines” since 1998 has gotten lots of recent attention, along with how marketers will be impacted. Some good, but I believe incomplete or even inaccurate pieces have been written about it, as well as related events and trends. I summarize the current environment (no pun intended) and then cover the top four things you need to know about green marketing in the coming months and years to gain more benefit with less risk.

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