Posts by: Scott Cooney

With significant health risks hanging in the balance, who should pay for pharmaceutical disposal?

By On March 2, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Policies of Sustainability, Sustainability Information

Another externality that doesn’t receive much attention is the disposal of petrochemically-derived pharmaceuticals. Studies show that drugs leach from landfills and are often flushed down toilets, allowing the chemicals to infiltrate drinking and irrigation water. Results from wildlife studies have shown that these endocrine disrupters can have significant impacts on sex and other reproductive characteristics. […]

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Happy Meals May Cause Childhood Obesity, Diabetes, and ADD. San Francisco’s New Law Aims to Curb That…and Is Sharply Rebuked by Republicans

By On March 2, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Policies of Sustainability

New law in San Francisco asks McDonald’s to make Happy Meals healthy meals, or not include a toy with them. Republicans slam the effort as socialism…and ignore external health costs borne by the children, and financial costs borne by the taxpayer resulting from childhood health problems like diabetes, ADD, ADHD, and the […]

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Price Premiums for Green Products: How Much Will the Market Bear?

By On March 2, 2012 · 2 Comments · In Marketing Green, Sustainable Business Strategy

It’s plain that many consumers are just fine paying a bit of a price premium for green products. It’s also plain that many others are not. It gets interesting when you look at the stats across industries. In some, a large price premium is common and accepted. In others, the […]

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Simple Shower Device a Great Way to Save Energy and Water for Businesses and Home Offices with Showers

By On March 2, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Green Your Business

This simple device is one of those pieces of the green economy that just immediately makes so much sense you wonder why someone didn’t do this decades ago.

For $20, the UZLOW empowers users to control the flow of water from their showerheads, without affecting the temperature of the water, […]

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New Leaf Paper CEO Jeff Mendelsohn on Successful Green Entrepreneurship

By On March 2, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Interview

New Leaf Paper’s Eco-Audit allows a company to determine (and advertise) its environmental footprint from a particular print job

Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with Jeff Mendelsohn, an icon of the green business community. Mendelsohn founded New Leaf Paper in 1998 as an alternative to the waste he saw in […]

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7 Effective Customer Service Strategies for Green Business: Lessons from Zappos’ Tremendous Success

By On March 2, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Sustainable Business Strategy

Zappo’s, a company founded on online sales of shoes, has always had a culture that was a few degrees off from true north. Succeeding in a crowded marketplace with a business model that most investors would have scoffed at as completely untenable, the company’s success tells us that unconventional sometimes works despite its […]

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New Smart Strip from BITS Limited is a Foolproof Energy Saver

By On March 2, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Green Your Business

Vampire power is becoming a well-known example of low-hanging fruit for energy efficiency and savings for small businesses. The name refers to power that is ‘sucked’ out of sockets despite the electronic device not even being on, but simply because it is plugged in, it can draw power from the wall for […]

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