Marc Gunther

GreenBiz.com Senior Writer Marc Gunther is a longtime journalist and speaker whose focus is business and sustainability. Marc maintains a blog at MarcGunther.com. You can follow him on Twitter @marcGunther.

GreenBiz.com Senior Writer Marc Gunther is a veteran journalist and speaker whose focus is business and sustainability.

Marc was a senior writer at Fortune magazine for 13 years. At Fortune, he wrote cover stories about the greening of Walmart; about BYD, the Chinese electric car company backed by Warren Buffett; about Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and the 2008 financial crisis; and about spirituality in the workplace.

Previously, Marc worked for more than 20 years for newspapers including the Paterson (N.J.) News, Hartford Courant, Detroit News, and Detroit Free Press. He is the author of four books, including "Faith and Fortune: How Compassionate Capitalism is Transforming American Business" (Crown 2004) and is creator and co-chair of Brainstorm Green, Fortune's annual conference on business and the environment.

Marc maintains a blog at MarcGunther.com. You can follow him on Twitter @marcGunther.

Brainstorm Green Revisited
By Marc Gunther, August 20, 2009
How can businesses profitably help solve the world’s biggest environmental problems? Brainstorm Green will take on that question anew at its upcoming conference. ...
Cash for (Electronic) Clunkers
By Marc Gunther, August 18, 2009
The Cash for Clunkers program has inspired a range of imitators, offering incentives for outdated, inefficient products ranging from refrigerators to servers. A company named Gazelle wonders...
Bill Gross's Solar Breakthrough
By Marc Gunther, August 06, 2009
The founder of eSolar is about to open his first concentrating solar power plant, which could end up achieving the holy grail of renewable energy: producing solar energy at a much lower cost than...
Shocker! Greenpeace, Kimberly-Clark Get Huggy
By Marc Gunther, August 05, 2009
For the last few years, Greenpeace has waged a relentless campaign against Kimberly-Clark, a $19-billion a year forest-products giant, accusing the firm of clear-cutting ancient forests to make...
Eaton CEO: Hybrid Trucks Deliver, Big-Time
By Marc Gunther, August 04, 2009
Crawling, stop-and-go traffic is an annoyance to most drivers. But to Eaton Corp., a $15-billion a year FORTUNE 500 company based in Cleveland, it's a business opportunity. ...
Americans Waste $130 Billion a Year on Energy GreenerBuildings.com
By Marc Gunther, July 29, 2009
U.S. businesses and individuals could save money, curb emissions of global warming pollutants, reduce our dependence on foreign oil and cut energy consumption 23 percent by 2020, merely by taking...
Buildings Where Energy is 'Free' GreenerBuildings.com
By Marc Gunther, July 28, 2009
There's no such thing as a free lunch, or free electricity. But green buildings, when designed right, can operate without monthly utility bills. ...
GE's Smart (and Subsidized) Appliances
By Marc Gunther, July 27, 2009
New smart appliances from GE will do great things. They will save energy, reduce greenhouse gases, curb demand for power on the utility grid, generate "green jobs" in America, clean your clothes...
Is There High Interest in a Low-Carbon Mutual Fund?
By Marc Gunther, July 23, 2009
The Green Century Balanced Fund is betting there is, and says it is the first U.S.-based fund to disclose its carbon footprint, which is 66 percent less than the carbon intensity of the S&P500...
GE: Cleaner, Greener and More Open
By Marc Gunther, July 21, 2009
GE releases a citizenship report today that demonstrates that the $183-billion company is becoming not just cleaner and greener, but more open. ...

Trying To Turn Coke Green
By Marc Gunther, April 17, 2008
CEO Neville Isdell is an environmentalist, but making The Coca-Cola Co. sustainable is harder than it looks. ...

Greenpeace Gigs Trader Joe's on Sustainable Seafood
By Marc Gunther, July 06, 2009
You've got to admit the people at Greenpeace are environmentalists with a sense of humor. Recently, Greenpeace published a scorecard that ranks supermarket chains on the sustainability of their...
Can Mud Make the Perfect Biofuel? ClimateBiz.com
By Marc Gunther, July 02, 2009
In the search for a clean, planet-friendly fuel, the startup Qteros has discovered and refined a microbe it calls the Q Microbe that turns biomass -- switchgrass, wood chips, grass, corn stover or...
Natural Gas: The Rodney Dangerfield of Fuels
By Marc Gunther, June 30, 2009
In the energy and climate change debate, environmentalists are mostly united in their feelings about coal (very bad), gasoline (avoid gas guzzlers), nuclear energy (scary), hydropower (small is...
We Can Solve the Climate Crisis
By Marc Gunther, June 29, 2009
Sunil Paul thinks big. He also is well-connected in D.C. and has an exquisite sense of timing. He released his report Gigaton Throwdown in the company of green jobs czar Van Jones and key players...
What Does Big Solar Want? What Doesn't It Want?
By Marc Gunther, June 26, 2009
Rarely does an industry come to Washington and hold a press conference to talk about why it wants to be given a leg up over the competition. But that's what the solar power industry did this week...
A Web-Based Tool to Follow the Stimulus Dollars
By Marc Gunther, June 24, 2009
From retrofits to road projects, the Onvia website recovery.org tracks stimulus spending, enabling businesses to scout for opportunities in government contracts and taxpayers to see where the...
Wal-Mart's Big Problem: Climate Change
By Marc Gunther, June 24, 2009
There's a fundamental problem facing Wal-Mart and the rest of corporate America: How does a company get bigger without increasing its environmental footprint? ...
The Congressmen from Coal
By Marc Gunther, June 22, 2009
In the rhetorical fight around the global warming bill, it's rare to see the special interests' influence as nakedly revealed as they recently were in a presentation from the Rural American...
Google Helps Consumers Get Smart About Energy GreenerBuildings.com
By Marc Gunther, June 16, 2009
Imagine if you walked into a grocery store, chose the food you want (no price tags), took it home and then, at the end of the month, got the bill in the mail. "That's essentially what we are doing...
Johnson Controls-USEA Forum Underscores the Urgency of Energy Efficiency GreenerBuildings.com
By Marc Gunther, June 16, 2009
Highlights from the 20th Annual Energy Efficiency Forum, sponsored by Johnson Controls and the United States Energy Association, include a look at the brainpower at the Department of Energy, the...

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Climate Counts and the Green Race to the Top
By Marc Gunther, November 20, 2009
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?...
When Behavioral Economics Meets Climate Change, Guess What's Coming for Dinner? ClimateBiz.com
By Marc Gunther, November 17, 2009
When a meat-based entrée is being served and people are offered a vegetarian alternative, about 5 to 10 percent will request it. But what if the choices were reversed? ...
Making A Big Deal of Small Wind
By Marc Gunther, November 16, 2009
Why is wind-power behemoth GE bothering to invest a relatively tiny amount of money in a small company that makes backyard wind turbines? ...

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