Guest Column

Energy – It Just Doesn’t Add Up

I'm close to turning 50 years old and I'm having energy déjà vu. Over the winter, fears of oil shortages put prices through the roof ...

FTC on Greenwashing: Is That All There Is?

The Federal Trade Commission in mid-June charged three companies, Kmart Corp., Tender Corp. and Dyna-E International, with making false and unsubstantiated claims that their paper ...

Focus on Innovators, Not Polluters, for Climate Solutions

The Waxman-Markey bill trickling its way through Congress is both historic and problematic. As loopholes are inserted, and interests appeased, the bill will inevitably get watered ...

The ‘Great Convergence’ of Clean Tech and Development

The "Great Convergence" between clean tech and development seeks to fuel growth through the incubation and rapid commercialization of new, sustainable technologies. That is the concensus of ...

Green Jobs Not Just For the Environmental Set

At a recent Green Jobs Summit in New York City, the evening began with the seemingly simple question, "What is the definition of a green job?" A ...

Don’t Let Carbon Confusion Stand in Your Way

You need to measure, monitor and manage your company's carbon footprint. Your organization may be under pressure to stay competitive in a sustainable supply chain. You may ...

10 Climate Change Actions I’d Like To See By Tomorrow

If you've spent any time on Facebook, MySpace or any other social network, you've seen them: memes, those strange hybrids of straw polls and unbidden ...

How High-Footprint Industries Can Embrace Sustainability

Between the 1,000-horsepower racecars and the thousands of fans who travel from far and wide to get there, NASCAR events have a carbon footprint close to ...

Green Data Center Rx – Go Modular

Demands for IT capacity are unrelenting and often unpredictable, making it difficult for CIOs in mid-market businesses to keep up with the pace of change. Growth from ...

Five Strategies for Building Your Ethical Brand

There’s been a lot of discussion about elevating corporate responsibility to become a strategic driver of your business. Most companies would like to benefit from their ...

Cutting Operating Expenses with Efficiency

With corporate revenues falling, corporate energy bills are becoming even more glaring as a cost center and source of waste. Commercial and industrial (C&I) buildings account for ...

Is it Time for the U.S. to Invest in Solar Manufacturing?

The solar industry is on the brink of dramatic growth. Global manufacturers have come to expect incentives to invest and create jobs, and they're getting them. ...

Keeping Your Eyes on the Partnership Prize

With the global economy in turmoil, corporate environmental initiatives could have faced a fatal blow. The good news is that companies today have not forgotten that ...

Avoiding the Pitfalls of Product-level Carbon Footprinting

As companies implement their GHG reduction strategies, many are turning to product level carbon footprinting for insight. By mapping carbon throughout a product's lifecycle -- from ...

Capturing the Green Advantage

Consumers around the world talk about the environment as if they were discussing their own backyards (which, of course, they are). But will they continue to ...

Top 10 Reasons Mother Nature is ‘Too Big to Fail’

As the debate about how to revive our economy while sustaining our environment heats up, it's important to remember that the economic driver truly "too big ...

Climate Change Is Coming, Is Your Company Ready?

The Obama Administration-backed 2009 Waxman-Markey House Draft and the America's Climate Security Act of 2008 (2008 Senate Bill) proposes an 83 percent reduction in GHG emissions ...

Seizing Power and the Moment

If there’s a sector of society that’s tied to the whipping post right now, it’s the business and financial community. And if that community has a ...

Engage Employees for a Sustainable Enterprise

Developing a sustainable enterprise depends on leaders who demonstrate commitment, inspiring vision, and operating savvy for sustainability. At the heart of managing such change, however, is ...

Adapting Skills For The Green Tech Revolution

The recent multi-billion-dollar U.S. stimulus package is paving the way for a smarter national infrastructure, which will inevitably creates job, stimulate economic growth and drive innovation ...