This morning I turned on my computer and saw this video. It’s worth watching. I was one of the 1,400 women at BlogHer, and I always find an outsider’s view interesting.
I immediately sent an email off to him and it was followed up by a phone call. Michael Schott is a writer in Chicago and he was kind enough to allow me to ask five follow up questions. I’m going to publish without editorial. He’s clearly a bright man, and I’d like you to hear his voice, both on video and in print.
If you live in Washington, D.C., keep your eyes open this April. PepsiCo, the makers of Pepsi, Mountain Dew, and Aquafina, have begun field-testing 30 green vending machines. The machines feature a redesigned Pepsi logo and are prominently marked as green technology.
PepsiCo, owner of the Tropicana brand, has announced the green-quotient it figures accompanies the production of a meager half-gallon carton of orange juice: 3.75 pounds of carbon dioxide. Most of that stems from the emissions of just growing the oranges, which tend to include sizeable doses of nitrogen fertilizer.
What now? Pepsi isn’t sure. According to a report today in the New York Times:
(PepsiCo) figured that as public concern grows about the fate of the planet, companies will find themselves under pressure to perform such calculations. Orange juice seemed like a good case study.
The business case for reducing corporations’ water footprints was explored at last week’s Corporate Water Footprinting conference held in San Francisco.
“Water is the new carbon,” said Gil Friend, President and CEO of Natural Logic, during his moderation of a session on “The Outlook for Water Supply Shortages.”
The conference, held December 2 and 3 and organized by Green Power Conferences, engaged corporations to discuss how to become more proactively involved in the water management of their facilities. Companies such as The Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo International, Nestle Waters, MillerCoors, and Cadbury were represented. Professors, water experts and consultants from a variety of firms, including Business for Social Responsibility and Natural Logic, also participated in panels.
Indra K. Nooyi: Image source: Sivacracy.netBusinessWeek next week has a few articles on PepsiCo’s Chairwoman and CEO Indra Nooyi’s vision of “performance with purpose”. It focuses on Nooyi’s earnest passion to fundamentally transform the company into a sustaining portfolio strategy:
The slogan may sound like the kind of marketing ploy that’s in vogue these days, especially coming from a company that’s best known for making soda and potato chips.
Indra K. Nooyi: Image source: Sivacracy.netBusinessWeek next week has a few articles on PepsiCo’s Chairwoman and CEO Indra Nooyi’s vision of “performance with purpose”. It focuses on Nooyi’s earnest passion to fundamentally transform the company into a sustaining portfolio strategy:
