The Marcellus Shale natural gas deposit is apparently smaller than we thought…Maybe we should focus on renewables…
A quick summary of my last e-newsletter on corporate commitments to renewables…
For years, Toyota has been the darling of the green business world. But now the company faces renewed competition for the title of green auto leader. Is Ford the next green leader?
The world is meeting in Cancun this week to talk climate change. Is there any hope of a large-scale agreement on capping emissions around the world? Most pundits would say no. Why can’t we agree to do something? The answers are varied and all contain some truth.
I visited Beijing a couple weeks ago to speak to a group of Chinese corporate executives. They were brought together by a major environmental NGO to discuss climate change. The meeting itself was fascinating, but I was really struck by a general impression in China that the country is taking green business very seriously.
Obviously some things have changed in Washington and around the country in the last 24 hours. But what will this shift in power mean for the green business movement and for the sustainability agenda in general? It may not change as much as you think, and I see a number of reasons to maintain hope.
On the heels of my recent column on China’s investment in clean technology, two news items really caught my attention in the last couple of weeks. They tell an interesting story of who in the U.S. is really prepared to build a modern energy system.
The New York Times reported today that the U.S. Military is aggressively pursuing “Less Dependence on Fossil Fuels.” Why does the military care about going green? Because the cost in money, resources, and lives to bring fuel to Afghanistan and Iraq is just too great. A few of the mind-blowing statistics in this article…
China is spending $75 billion or more each year for the next ten years to build a clean economy. The country is in the clean tech race to win it. Is the U.S.?
The New York Times’ Ross Douthat relies on a set of arguments against the pursuit of a clean economy that have little basis in fact and mainly defend the untenable status quo. The overall pitch has two main parts: (a) promoting a clean economy through the use of market mechanisms like cap-and-trade is a perversion of free markets…(b) going green will cost jobs and hurt the economy. Let’s look at both ideas.
‘Is the World Better Off Because Your Company Is In It?’: Examining Corporate Climate Responsibility
