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and not the Congress.
Three headlines today, all dispiriting examples of political irresponsibility that display a cavalier disregard for markets.
From the AP: GM, Chrysler agree to reconsider dealer closings
General Motors Co. and Chrysler will reconsider decisions to close thousands ...
Energy/Transportation
Chrysler
General Motors
Chris Van Hollen
Here’s an interesting use of social media by a group called Climate Interactive . It’s an attempt to track progress being made at the Copenhagen climate negotiations. Climate Interactive (”vigorous sharing of user-friendly simulations”) grew out of modeling done ...
Environment
Climate Change
Prizes are powerful incentives.
In 1927, Charles Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic to win the $25,00 Orteig prize.
Tartan Racing , a collaboration between students at Carnegie Mellon and General Motors, won a $2 million prize in the 2007 DARPA Grand Challenge , a competition to ...
Environment
World Wildlife Fund
Resources for the Future
“You can only compromise to a point before a solution isn’t really a solution.”
That, in a sentence, is about as succinct a critique of the cap-and-trade legislation pending in Congress as you are likely to read. For more, when you have 10 minutes, watch the video below from ...
Environment
Climate Change
David Paterson
By now, everyone paying attention to the greening of corporate America knows about Wal-Mart’s sweeping sustainability programs. Big-box rival Best Buy has not been nearly as visible about its efforts to become more environmentally and socially responsible. But I recently visited Best ...
Green Living
Recycling
Since joining The Coca-Cola Co. in 1997, Scott Vitters has gone to work most days with one question on his mind:
“How do we get to our vision of a 100% renewable, 100% recyclable bottle?”
It’s a simple question, with anything but a simple answer—getting to a renewable, zero-waste bottle ...
Environment
Climate Change
Food Shortage
I probably should thank Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for finding me an apartment next week in Copenhagen—and for connecting me to a high school friend I’d lost track of many years ago.
Tamra Rosanes
I’m often delighted by the power of social media. Through Facebook, Twitter and ...
Environment
Green Tomorrow
Climate Change
Denmark
So what should I write about today, the blogger wonders. The smart grid? Combined heat-and-power systems? Or underwear? Well, given that it’s holiday shopping season….
Meet PACT , a company that wants to persuade you to change your underwear and change the world.
Launched this ...
Environment
Green Grid
Patagonia
Global Green USA
I’m going to Copenhagen in two weeks for the global climate negotiations. Exciting!
But…the nearest hotel with a vacancy, best as I can tell, is in Ystad, Sweden. Yep, Sweden.
Now, this isn’t quite as bad as it sounds to those of us with limited knowledge of the ...
Environment
Sweden
Climate Change
With the (yuk) holiday shopping season upon us, this weekend seems like a good time to devote a series of blogposts to the idea of shopping with your values. But before I get to today’s topic–the Buying for Equality guide published by the Human Rights Campaign–let me first ...
Green Living
Apple
Dell
Gap
General Mills
Jeff Broin knows his way around a corn field. The 44-year-old CEO of Poet , which is the largest ethanol producer in the world, grew up in Minnesota on a family farm. He lives in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and Poet’s 26 ethanol plants are scattered across the midwest.
Jeff Broin
...
Energy/Transportation
There’s good and bad news from a sweeping new report on the world’s water scarcity out today from McKinsey & Co., commissioned by such water-dependent companies as Coca-Cola, Nestle, SAB Miller and Syngenta, along with the World Bank/International Finance Corp.
The bad: Global demand for ...
Environment
Water Conservation
India
Michael Bloomberg
Climate Change
Martin O'Malley
Food Shortage
Today’s guest post comes from Tom Konrad , Ph.D., an investment analyst specializing in clean energy. Tom, who is 40, and calls himself a policy wonk, lives in Denver and writes about stock market investments in clean energy at his excellent blog, AltEnergyStocks.com . Tom wrote this ...
Energy/Transportation
Tom Vilsack
Reliance
Not many heroes emerged from the rubble of the global financial meltdown. Two are Sheila Bair, the chair of the FDIC, and Brooksley Born, the former head of the CFTC.
Both warned of the crisis. Both were ignored.
In a June 2008 column —written before things got really bad—Steven Pearlstein ...
Other
If climate regulation will burden businesses or increase costs, then why are so many companies strengthening their voluntary response to the climate crisis in the midst of an economic downturn?
The reason is, there’s a race to the top when it comes to sustainability, particularly among ...
Environment
Climate Change
Green Grid
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That Sarah Palin cover on Newsweek is striking, for more reasons than the obvious one–the fact that a politician with national ambitions is being shown in a pair of short black shorts.
The headline is attention-grabbing, too. “She’s bad news for the GOP–and for ...
Green Living
Sarah Palin
New Zealand
Have you heard that we’re getting new neighbors? Demographers expect that the number of people living on earth—now about 6.8 billion—will grow to between 8 and 11 billion by 2050.
Whether population tops out at the high or the low end of those projections will have a huge impact on climate ...
Environment
Climate Change
At the Net Impact conference last week, a waiter stopped by before lunch to ask if anyone at our table wanted a vegetarian meal instead of chicken. Just one or two people did.
This, as it happens, is typical. When a meat-based entrée is being served, and people are offered a vegetarian ...
Environment
Climate Change
Energy Efficiency
To attack big environmental problems, start with small steps.
So says Adam Werbach—activist, author, advertising man and one of the more interesting people working in the sustainability movement today.
Werbach is the former president of the Sierra Club, the author of Strategy for ...
