The current Secretary of Energy is also a Nobel Laureate and former physics professor at UC Berkeley, and a self-described 'energy conservation nut.'
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Though a giant in the buildings and automotive industries, Johnson Controls Inc. was long considered a quiet company — seldom a major presence outside its lines of business. That's changing...
Looking at the full impact of any type of product or device -- rather than, say, the cloud of exhaust in front of you on the highway -- opens the door to a whole new understanding of how design...
The method corals use for building their homes is worlds away from the way humans have been making cement and concrete, but one company has developed an innovative method for using seawater (which...
Not much good has come of the Great Recession, but a recent day-long event showed that investors are at least starting to think more thoroughly about risk and sustainability in their portfolios....
Forbes has ranked the 40 largest metro areas to determine the most, and least, toxic cities in the United States. Las Vegas and Sacramento rank among the cleanest, while Atlanta and Detroit were...
The huge environmental impact of the simple lightbulb offers a perfect example of the scale and scope of the challenges the world faces in reducing humanity's footprint -- and also points out the...
That's generally the advice when learning how to paddle a canoe. It works equally well for companies trying to successfully navigate a sea change from a consumption-based economy to one that puts...
The last couple of years were witness to a stampede of product launches featuring green attributes and positioning. Today, however, the marketing herd is currently shifting its attention to a new...
A recent study urges marketers to drop buzzwords -- like environmental, green and sustainability -- and focus on tangible benefits. That's a reasonable stopgap, but someone must take the...
Several years ago, FPL Group CEO Lew Hay, the nation's leading renewable energy provider, gave an impassioned speech arguing for a tax on CO2 emissions to deal with the threat of global warming....
As part of a partnership with The Green Grid, the U.S. EPA made a number of small tweaks to how it managed one of its data centers, and ended up saving $15,000 per year in energy costs as a result...
We want environmental sustainability to be a core value -- like quality and customer responsiveness. So how do you instill environmental considerations into every operation of a company? It...
The head of the Environmental Center for Pediatric Oncology at Hackensack University Medical Center talks about how she developed and promotes her line of green cleaning products, the lessons all...
Business has taken me to San Francisco and environs several times in the last few months. Here's my field report on greener lodging and eco-travel options for those of you who are San Francisco...
It seems like a new sustainability certification or standard is announced weekly. As these increase, along with corresponding logos and taglines, so too have questions about their validity and...
Having just returned to our offices after a great week at the BSR Conference 2009 in San Francisco, I am both sobered by the daunting challenges we face as a global community and inspired by the...
Would you believe that there are places and times when power companies generate so much renewable energy that they give it away?
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For 50 years, long haul tractor-trailer designs have remained fundamentally unchanged, but the time is ripe for their transformation. Their size, speed and poor aerodynamics make them laden with...
Today, President Obama travels to Arcadia, Florida, home to one of the nation’s biggest solar power plants, to announced 100 grants providing a total of $3.4 billion in recovery-act funding...
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