News Archive for Sustainability Category

Professional-in-residence notes keys to effective ‘green’ messaging

November 25, 2013

When it comes to sustainability, purely informational advertising and marketing campaigns just don’t work. Marketers need to “tap into emotional drivers” to effect change.  And they need to send segmented messages to different demographics.

So said Lee Ann Head, an expert on communications related to energy efficiency, on campus in November as the inaugural Arthur W. Page Center… More

Why emotion beats reason in green marketing

February 11, 2013

Lee Ahern, Senior Research Fellow at the Arthur W. Page Center, Assistant Professor of Advertising and co-director of the Environmental Communications Project at Penn State University, outlines why emotion is more powerful than reason in green marketing on GreenBiz.com.

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