Help! Not just anybody…
Many of us prefer to investigate the market before an important purchase. We tend to do it in the most practical and timesaving way – grabbing a professional magazine and scrutinising it from the first to the last page. Only then one feels more or less ready to step into store and navigate being exposed to hundreds of options.
Are you for greener IT? There is a way to act!
Computers have for many of us become a natural part of lives. Both at home and at work we are spending hours in front of them. Switching on a computer is as natural as switching on lights. Developing more efficient lighting and transforming that market took over a decade of effort. How will it be with computers?
In from the cold, at wal-mart.
The thing about researching eco-labels is that it tends to follow you around, especially in consumptive moments. There is no escape: apparently not even in wal-mart! How is it that I succumbed to the pre-snowstorm shopping frenzy, and at wal-mart in East Haven CT of all places?
Washing our-selves with green
When is a label an ecolabel? We were almost fooled into thinking that Green Planet Solutions (a UK cleaning and janitorial products company) new marketing campaign was a stand alone eco-label.
Canucks to Overhaul Eco-Tech Verification
According to GLOBE-Net News, Environment Canada is asking for help in re-designing their environmental technology verification (ETV) progamme. The goal is to bring the Canadian ETV in line with international initiatives (we hope this includes the EU) and to reduce emissions.
Another label in the field of electronics
Fujitsu Siemens has launched a new label for its electronic products: the “Green IT Label”.
UK government focuses on sustainable public procurement
What can make an eco-labelling organisation happy? International recognition is definitely rewarding. The UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) commissioned a research report aimed to strengthen governmental sustainable procurement.
The Christmas tree debates
For a while I have been wondering whether artificial Christmas trees are more environmentally-friendly than natural trees. There are a bunch of articles covering the subject. I remember having tough discussions with friends about it.
ecolabelling.org at sustainable brands international
We are gearing up to present on eco-labels at the 'Sustainable Brands International' conference in Miami next week. Anastasia and Elvira are re-analyzing our data, and thinking how to best encapsulate the market penetration of labels in their product categories.
Greening textiles worldwide
Eco-friendliness is on the climb in the textile and fashion world. In attempts of greening their supply chains, some international companies are looking for organic fibres, others are looking to full life cycle based eco-labels and a third group assessing social issues in the textile supply chain.
