Happy New Year all (ok, I’m a bit delayed, but I entered the new year and promptly got really sick — lost over a week in there). So let’s start fresh now!
Anyway, I took a bit of time at the end of 2009 and early 2010, with a couple weeks’ perspective, to think about the stories that really grabbed me in 2009. The top 10 is below, but see my brief write-ups and logic on each at my e-letter site here.
1) Copenhagen fails or does it?
2) The debate over climate science rages on (in the U.S. at least)
3) The EPA steps in
4) Wal-Mart keeps the pressure up (and saves the rainforest?)
5) Domino’s employees deliver a new kind of openness.
6) IBM starts building a “smarter planet”
7) GM goes bankrupt
8) Some of our biggest capitalists get serious about carbon
9) China emerges as a green tech leader and the world’s biggest emitter
10) The bottom of the pyramid becomes a source of innovation
And the bonus, theater of the absurd, wacky story…
10 1/2) Forbes names Exxon green company of the year
