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Green Living Pulse is out tomorrow

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

By Suzanne Shelton, CEO Our 2010 Green Living Pulse study publishes tomorrow, and it contains some juicy insights for marketers of green products and services in America.  Here's one of our press releases about it -- enjoy! Polar Ice Cap Is Gone, Kids Can’t Go Outside, Nebraska is a Desert?  Poll Finds ...

An appetite for change?

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

By Karen Barnes, Director of Insight I love it when things come together and you can connect the dots. Here are my dots this week – our latest Green Living Pulse study and the movie Food Inc. In Green Living Pulse (to be released the first week of August), we learned that ...

Doomsday doesn’t work

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

By CEO,  Suzanne Shelton This is good news or bad news, depending on your point of view:  As our Eco Pulse report noted earlier this year, belief in global warming is down 10 points over last year.  Our soon-to-be-published Green Living Pulse study shows the same number (only 48.5% agree it’s ...

Two unanswered questions

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

By CEO, Suzanne Shelton As energy, climate and jobs bills (with Home Star attached) make their way through the halls of Congress, there are some assumptions being made and questions that haven’t yet been answered.  At least, I haven’t seen the concrete answers – if any of you out there have, ...

Show me something I’ve never seen before

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

By Director of Insight, Karen Barnes My family’s really into birds. My parents can name all the species that visit their backyard birdbaths and feeders. My brother is a professional birder – having banded Willow Flycatchers in the Kern River Valley in California for two summers. Me, well, I’m the bird ...

The Big Oil Spill: is it enough to change consumer behavior?

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

By president and CEO, Suzanne Shelton We often talk about how Americans are a see-it-to-believe it lot.  We see it show up in our focus groups and surveys -- if people have a real-world, tangible connection to something (as in, they have a kid with asthma or a relative who lives ...

The power of the small idea.

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

VP of Creative, Larry Washington, puts his small thinking cap on: If you haven’t heard, Betty White will be hosting Saturday Night Live in the near future. If it seems a bit odd to you that an 80-year-old comedic actress will be hosting a show targeting a much younger crowd, join ...

Forget monsters under the bed: Kids are afraid of global warming

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Director of Insight Karen Barnes takes a look at how the youngest members of our society feel about global warming and what the implications might be for marketers. I don’t have kids, exactly. I have two 13-year-old neighbors for whom I am a “sparent” – that means spare parent. They know ...

The Bloom Box: Worth all the Hype?

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Note: Director of Insight Karen Barnes examines the launch of the much-anticipated Bloom Box and adds a few thoughts to the commotion. The official launch of Bloom Energy’s potentially revolutionary new fuel cell technology, the Bloom Box, has tongues everywhere wagging, and there seem to be more questions than answers at this ...

Super Bowl Ads – The good, the bad and the green.

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Creative Director, Larry Washington, weighs in on last night's entertainment. Another year, another round of super bowl commercial hits and misses. I was excited to see that a few more creative concepts broke through this year. Of course there were still an overwhelming amount of bad ideas propped up by expensive ...