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20 Apr 2010
Trials and tribulations of green product innovation
Posted by: Natalya Sverjensky

Waitrose’s innovation looks great on paper (we’re talking recycled paper, of course): a new ‘pouch’ packaging for milk that would use 75% less plastic than its bottled counterparts, in which at least two-thirds of the 18..
Trials and tribulations of green product innovation
06 Apr 2010
How not to do sustainability communications
Posted by: Natalya Sverjensky

This delightful gem comes to us courtesy of Kohler, so let's call it the Kohler Effect: run one ad in National Geographic championing Kohler's "commitment to creating water-saving products", simultaneously run a different ad in Wired ma..
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24 Nov 2009
Becoming a Decarbonised Brand
Posted by: Jeff Melnyk

One of our industry bibles – Marketing – has come up with an initiative to help marketers deal with the difficulty of communicating climate change. “Decarbonising the Brand” - announced in a full page advert within..
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07 Apr 2009
Loss of Innocence
Posted by: Jeff Melnyk

Twitterland was all a flutter today with the news of Innocent slicing off a portion of the smoothie empire to evil multinational Coke. Of course they aren't the first to fail to resist the temptation of a big brand sugar daddy. The B..
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04 Mar 2009
The Unsustainable News at Ten
Posted by: Jeff Melnyk

With the announcement today of huge job losses at ITV (and – a bird tells me – at Five), it appears that broadcasting is the next casualty of the recession. This is actually the second wave of redundancies at both channels in the past 6..
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25 Feb 2009
Further learnings from caffeine
Posted by: Jeff Melnyk

Ok ok ok – I’m a bit obsessed with coffee. But in my defence there are many lessons to be learned around the black gold – beyond its delicious addictive qualities.A new boutique of caffeine has just opened around the corner from F..
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10 Feb 2009
Tall Skinny Soy Recession Proof Latte
Posted by: Jeff Melnyk

A flyer from my local estate agent popped through the door today. They are pleased to announce that they are now offering "quality coffee & croissants".They aren't the first business in the "current economic climate" to bran..
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10 Feb 2009
Green Marketing Conference 2009
Posted by: Henry Hicks

Shameless but much deserved plug for our pal Nyree over at the Peterborough Environment City Trust and this year's Green Marketing conference. A great looking national conference on whether marketing holds the answers to the challenge of sustainabl..
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17 Dec 2008
Are you a target market?
Posted by: Georgina Combes

Who are you? And what do you want? I know they’re rather direct questions and might conjure up memories of Blind Date Cilia’s staple opener “What’s yer name and where d’ya come from?”, but when you’re in th..
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