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Steven Chu: The Nerd in the Cabinet
By Marc Gunther, November 06, 2009
The current Secretary of Energy is also a Nobel Laureate and former physics professor at UC Berkeley, and a self-described 'energy conservation nut.' ...

Beyond the Black Cloud: Looking at Lifecycles
By Dave Douglas, November 05, 2009
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 Anthozoans Are Coming to Save Us! Corals Offer Concrete Solutions to Our Carbon Woes GreenerDesign.com
By Tom McKeag, November 04, 2009
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...

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Will the Financial Meltdown Lead to an Investment Revolution?
By Marc Gunther, November 03, 2009
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....
The Big Picture on Eco-Engineering Our Environmental Impact
By Dave Douglas, November 03, 2009
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...
Go Slow, Stay Low: A Mantra for a Greener Economy
By Stephen Linaweaver, November 02, 2009
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...
Is Simple the New Green?
By David Almy, November 02, 2009
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 Call to Green Marketers to Unite and Vanquish Consumer Confusion
By Michael B. Mercier, October 30, 2009
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...
FPL's Change of Heart on Cap and Trade ClimateBiz.com
By Marc Gunther, October 30, 2009
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....
Simple Data Center Best Practices Can Cut Energy Use by 20 Percent GreenerComputing.com
By Matthew Wheeland, October 29, 2009
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...
Building a Green Company Culture, One Day at a Time
By Kathrin Winkler, October 29, 2009
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...
Deirdre Imus's Mission to Green up Toxic Hospitals
By Anna Clark, October 29, 2009
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...
Tips for Greener Travels GreenerBuildings.com
By Leanne Tobias, October 29, 2009
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...
Using Sustainability Labels to Drive Performance
By Melissa Schweisguth, October 28, 2009
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...
BSR 2009: How to Accelerate Through the Downturn
By Eric Olson, BSR, October 28, 2009
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...
Electricity That's Cheaper Than Free
By Marc Gunther, October 28, 2009
Would you believe that there are places and times when power companies generate so much renewable energy that they give it away? ...
The Time is Ripe to Green Trucking
By Rebecca Cole, October 27, 2009
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...
The Smart Grid Is On Its Way -- Slowly
By Marc Gunther, October 27, 2009
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...
Sustainable Minds Releases New, Web-Based Life Cycle Assessment Software GreenerDesign.com
By GreenerDesign Staff, October 27, 2009
Software and information services company Sustainable Minds has released a new life cycle assessment (LCA) program to help companies design greener products and understand the impacts of new and...
Introducing ... the Green Confidence Index
By Joel Makower, October 27, 2009
Today marks the launch of the first comprehensive monthly poll aimed at tracking Americans' attitudes about and confidence in their leaders and institutions, nationally and locally, on the subject...
Parting the Chemical Curtain with GreenWERCS
By Michelle Mauthe Harvey, October 27, 2009
In May, with very little fanfare, Walmart introduced a new tool known as GreenWERCS that assesses the composition of chemical intensive products -- which amounts to just about any non-food item on...
BSR 2009: The Quandary of Mandatory Sustainability Reporting
By Leslie Guevarra, October 26, 2009
Increasingly, voluntary sustainability reporting is becoming a mainstream practice. Yet with the global economy still roiling, trust in business remains low and the question of mandatory reporting...
BSR 2009: The State of Sustainability in 'The World's Workshop'
By Matthew Wheeland, October 26, 2009
One session at this year's Business for Social Responsibility conference focused on how sustainability initiatives are taking root in China; the head of BSR's China operations sat down for an...

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A Green Supply Chain Starts in China ClimateBiz.com
By Laura Ediger and Ryan Schuchard, October 15, 2009
For companies looking to increase their supply chain’s energy efficiency, China is a good place to start because it is a key location for energy-intensive manufacturing and its rank as the...
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BSR 2009: How to Accelerate Through the Downturn
By Eric Olson, BSR, October 28, 2009
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...
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