tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-554312 2009-12-18T18:35:47-05:00 Your Comprehensive Source for Green Consumer Marketing and Research TypePad tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83492f95053ef012876683573970c 2009-12-18T18:35:47-05:00 2009-12-18T18:35:47-05:00 Kara Davidson Happy Holidays from ecoAmerica! We hope you have a wonderful holiday season. From, The ecoAmerica Team Jenni, Kara, Lee, Lia, Meighen, Rafael and Robert<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EcoamericaNewsBlog?a=WMOAaHPaGSU:jli_bpGVX4Y:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EcoamericaNewsBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EcoamericaNewsBlog/~4/WMOAaHPaGSU" height="1" width="1"/>http://ecoamerica.typepad.com/blog/2009/12/happy-holidays-from-ecoamerica.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83492f95053ef0120a760aa83970b 2009-12-17T18:05:37-05:00 2009-12-17T18:06:03-05:00 Kara Davidson Karen Barnes, Director of Insight at the Shelton Group, reviews how the recent events in Copenhagen and the international attention of climate change will impact the green consumer marketplace going forward. She suggest that it might be the consumer tipping...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EcoamericaNewsBlog?a=0a9xUjavBbw:z9A_g59mP90:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EcoamericaNewsBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EcoamericaNewsBlog/~4/0a9xUjavBbw" height="1" width="1"/>http://ecoamerica.typepad.com/blog/2009/12/the-consumer-impact-of-copenhagen.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83492f95053ef0120a759b2b8970b 2009-12-16T17:49:15-05:00 2009-12-16T17:49:15-05:00 Kara Davidson Adweek examines the strategic gap in support for climate change solutions and explains what it means for green marketers. He encourages marketers to break out green behavior and messaging from global warming (which seems like a legislative and not consumer...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EcoamericaNewsBlog?a=oHktrGCfc1Y:v43xgmXAd6A:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EcoamericaNewsBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EcoamericaNewsBlog/~4/oHktrGCfc1Y" height="1" width="1"/>http://ecoamerica.typepad.com/blog/2009/12/worry-over-global-warming-cools.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83492f95053ef012876582d91970c 2009-12-15T16:23:25-05:00 2009-12-15T16:23:15-05:00 Kara Davidson ecoAmerica friend, Jim Jubelirer, wrote a great piece in which he synthesized the various studies that have come out on people's attitudes and behaviors toward environmental issues (including ours). He goes on to discuss how deniers use cultural, ideological and...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EcoamericaNewsBlog?a=PTCcWh5_90U:O-AZwyIto40:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EcoamericaNewsBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EcoamericaNewsBlog/~4/PTCcWh5_90U" height="1" width="1"/>http://ecoamerica.typepad.com/blog/2009/12/bringing-green-to-the-masses-and-the-masses-to-green.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83492f95053ef01287653a096970c 2009-12-14T17:00:46-05:00 2009-12-14T17:01:12-05:00 Kara Davidson This recent Washington Post article delves into how and why certain environmental issues are conservative issues. Conservatives like Teddy Roosevelt and Richard Nixon gave us the National Parks and Environmental Protection Agency, respectively. Murdoch encourages continued conservative support of clean...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EcoamericaNewsBlog?a=cBVJBRpPpW4:O8kFUv3RmQA:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EcoamericaNewsBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EcoamericaNewsBlog/~4/cBVJBRpPpW4" height="1" width="1"/>http://ecoamerica.typepad.com/blog/2009/12/clean-energy-conservatives-can-embrace.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83492f95053ef0120a744fdbb970b 2009-12-11T17:26:32-05:00 2009-12-11T17:26:32-05:00 Kara Davidson Bill Roth, triplepundit, provides great context of the impact that greenwashing has had on businesses that are debating sharing their greening efforts, companies and nonprofits that have partnered on a promotion and consumers' response to green products and services. He...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EcoamericaNewsBlog?a=zlAZ_Gs8Fkc:av6SG6e102g:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EcoamericaNewsBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EcoamericaNewsBlog/~4/zlAZ_Gs8Fkc" height="1" width="1"/>http://ecoamerica.typepad.com/blog/2009/12/greenwashings-twoedged-sword.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83492f95053ef0120a73850be970b 2009-12-09T15:52:32-05:00 2009-12-09T15:52:32-05:00 Kara Davidson In his online post on Climate Rage yesterday, Paul Krugman cites ecoAmerica's American Climate Values Survey (ACVS). In trying to discern the cause for all the anti-environmental and climate anger, he references the ACVS and it's finding that environmentalism, and...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EcoamericaNewsBlog?a=3fh7tnKsn0E:4YmjPngQhgE:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EcoamericaNewsBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EcoamericaNewsBlog/~4/3fh7tnKsn0E" height="1" width="1"/>http://ecoamerica.typepad.com/blog/2009/12/paul-krugman-cites-ecoamerica-on-climate-rage.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83492f95053ef01287633a190970c 2009-12-08T17:31:31-05:00 2009-12-08T17:31:31-05:00 Kara Davidson Matthew Nisbet furthers the discussion of climate change framing to the recent "ClimateGate" spin and its impact on Copenhagen. He comments that climate skeptics, not environmental groups, are using the "public accountability" frame right with the goal of evoking the...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EcoamericaNewsBlog?a=gcbeB9xUAC8:Xh8OQoydkKI:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EcoamericaNewsBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EcoamericaNewsBlog/~4/gcbeB9xUAC8" height="1" width="1"/>http://ecoamerica.typepad.com/blog/2009/12/climategate-a-catchphrase-that-instantly-flips-the-frame-on-climate-scientists.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83492f95053ef0128762b3d10970c 2009-12-07T18:20:30-05:00 2009-12-07T18:20:30-05:00 Kara Davidson A Nielsen/Oxford University internet survey showed that 37% of respondents in 54 countries are "very concerned" about climate change (vs. 41% in 2007). In the United States, the poll recorded a more dramatic drop, down to 25% from 34%. Nielsen...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EcoamericaNewsBlog?a=dYHYoUpapcg:79hFFsy7xac:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EcoamericaNewsBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EcoamericaNewsBlog/~4/dYHYoUpapcg" height="1" width="1"/>http://ecoamerica.typepad.com/blog/2009/12/world-concerns-about-climate-change-dwindle-survey-.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83492f95053ef012876120e1e970c 2009-12-04T15:35:43-05:00 2009-12-04T15:35:43-05:00 Kara Davidson Another poll indicates a decline in the percentage of Americans who believe that global warming is happening. A recent Harris Interactive poll revealed that 51% of respondents believe in global warming (down from 71% in 2007, 75% in 2001). According...<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EcoamericaNewsBlog?a=BGr4Hzu1nTo:OHx41d0YRxA:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/EcoamericaNewsBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EcoamericaNewsBlog/~4/BGr4Hzu1nTo" height="1" width="1"/>http://ecoamerica.typepad.com/blog/2009/12/just-51-of-americans-believe-in-global-warming-down-from-71-in-2007.html