Popular Science released its list of Breakthrough Awards 2010 for new ideas and products (some on the design table, some out in the market). Out of 18 winners, 5 are clearly green innovations:
The big global meeting wrapping up today in Copenhagen (called COP15) is all about reducing carbon emissions in order to combat climate change. But is
[My new column on Harvard Business Online] We’re in the midst of the worst decline in auto sales history — yet Toyota can’t make the
[This post appears on Harvardbusiness.org in my new weekly column/blog…] I recently went to the Fortune Brainstorm Green conference in California — a who’s who
Can a plane fly with no jet fuel? Ridiculous, right? But the aviation industry is starting to ask itself this very question. In early 2008,
As we all know, energy prices have skyrocketed. Organizations of all kinds are trying new ways of doing business to cut costs. Some ideas, like Wal-Mart putting doors on refrigerated cases and cutting energy use 70% in that aisle, are head-slappingly obvious. Even seemingly wacky ideas can seem downright wise once you run the numbers.
On Sunday, Virgin Airlines flew a jumbo jet from London to Amsterdam powered in part by coconuts (“a biofuel mixture of coconut and babassu oil” to be more precise). Some would say the applicable part of that sentence is “nuts.” Is this another wacky Richard Branson moment, or something legitimate and important? Or, as is all things Branson, maybe it’s both?
‘Is the World Better Off Because Your Company Is In It?’: Examining Corporate Climate Responsibility
