Posted 2 weeks ago

There's a classic, geeky chemistry school joke that Chemists have all the solutions. That's starting to become true from an environmental perspective, though it remains to be seen whether those solu

Tags: environmental

Posted 4 weeks ago

Over the past few months, former vice president Al Gore has challenged Americans to commit to producing 100 percent of electricity from renewable energy and clean carbon-free sources within 10 years

Tags: renewable

Posted 6 weeks ago

This week's announcement by General Motors that it has joined with more than 30 utility companies across the U.S. to work on issues related to electric vehicles got a great deal of media play. But the

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Posted 6 weeks ago

Jeffrey Hollender, the founder, CEO at Seventh Generation, published a counterpoint to my recent post, How Bad Is Greenwashing, Really? I encourage you to read it here. I just responded on his site, a

Posted 8 weeks ago

Greenwashing represents the naturalizing of green as a meme. It demands scrutiny by all of us, and action against the egregious actors. But, in the end, it's all good.

Posted 10 weeks ago

As fuel and electricity prices have ratcheted up, so, too, have the queries about what to do: where can companies, especially smaller ones, go for help? On the one hand, that's a big, vague question.

Posted 11 weeks ago

The spring rains have yielded a bumper crop of new reports on the business of green. I've been a bit behind in fielding them, given my travels and last week's highly successful Greener by Design confe

Tags: solar

Posted 13 weeks ago

A new report offers insight and a framework for green product design. In the end, the biggest opportunity may be for the company to redesign itself.

Posted 13 weeks ago

My life often takes me to amazing places, no more amazing than the Great Barrier Reef, where I've just taken two dives. I'm not an experienced diver, though my two dives off the coast of Cairns, Austr

Tags: environmental

Posted 15 weeks ago

My speaking schedule last week took me to Toronto, to a conference of commercial building owners and developers, along with a corps of product and service purveyors that do business with them. It was

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