Sustainability News & Insights

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October 14, 2015

Focus group of one: Real-world experience trying to make a home more energy efficient

If you’ve seen someone from Shelton Group speak or you've read some of our research, you know our overarching point of view when it comes...

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September 30, 2015

Are your certifications qualified? The FTC issues warnings

At Shelton Group, we’ve long espoused the merits of third-party certifications – the ones that lend credence to green claims made on...

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September 24, 2015

Smart home technology: friend or foe?

I’ve been doing a little premature pontificating that smart home technologies could be a threat to building product manufacturers. Based...

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September 16, 2015

The smart home is here (because retailers are going all in)

We’ve learned, through years of work with sustainable product manufacturers, that growing sales without good retail distribution can be a...

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September 9, 2015

4 things we can learn from California drought communications campaigns

One of my coworkers here at Shelton Group lived in San Francisco during Jerry Brown’s first time around as governor. When the drought of...

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September 2, 2015

Turnoffs, turn-ons and wild expectations

Which green buzzwords irk your customers – and which set expectations you can’t meet? For those of us who work all day long in the...