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Environmental & Energy Executive Moves: GE, First Solar, Chesapeake, ULI, Power Assure, Ecolab
General Electric: Sixteen-year company veteran Andy Holt has been named general manager of renewable energy services at GE Energy. Holt will lead the growing wind ...
Environmental & Energy Executive Moves: Siemens, EnerNOC, Vestas, DONG
Here's the latest news on hirings and promotions among environmental and energy management leaders.
Siemens: The technology firm has appointed Matthias Rebellius to lead ...
Environmental & Energy Executive Moves: EIA, Carbon War Room, Energy Points, Switch Lighting
Environmental Industry Associations (EIA): The solid waste and recycling services industry trade group - comprising sub-groups the National Solid Wastes Management Association and the ...
Q-Cells, Solar Trust of America File for Bankruptcy; Serious Energy Sheds Staff
Solar manufacturers Q-Cells and Solar Trust of America have filed for bankruptcy, leaving the fate of a 1,000 MW California solar thermal project in doubt, ...
Environmental & Energy Executive Moves: Adobe, TripAdvisor, Gamesa, NextEra Energy, GE
Adobe has named Michelle Crozier Yates to the position of director of corporate social responsibility. Prior to the appointment at Adobe, Yates was ...
Environmental & Energy Executive Moves: EPEAT, First Solar, Green Charge Networks, SolarBridge
EPEAT: The green electronics registry has appointed Robert Frisbee as its new CEO. Frisbee has served as the director of development at the Oregon ...
Kroger Appoints First Sustainability Director; WRI Names President
Kroger has appointed Suzanne Lindsay as its first director of sustainability, and in another major hire, global think tank the World Resources Institute named Andrew ...
Environmental & Energy Executive Moves: AASHE, Barrick Gold, Gamesa, PwC, PNM
Gamesa: The wind turbine manufacturing company has named David Flitterman as its chairman. Flitterman previously held senior management positions at several firms including Bankers ...
Environmental & Energy Executive Moves: Deutsche Bank, Vestas, Sustainability Coalition, FirstEnergy, C3, Ecotality
Deutsche Bank: The company has named Thorsten Strauss as its global head of communications and CSR, effective June 1. Strauss is Bertelsmann ...
Gore Calls for Integrated Reporting, End to Quarterly Guidance
Companies should end quarterly financial reporting and start producing integrated reports, according to former vice president Al Gore and former Goldman Sachs Asset Management ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: State of the Union, ETS Waivers, Tidal Permit, Cal ISO Plan
Manufacturers should get incentives to make energy-efficiency improvements to their plants, President Obama said in last night's State of the Union address. He called ...
Environmental & Energy Executive Moves: Petco, Saatchi, WSP, Elster, Navigant, Sustainable Apparel Coalition
Petco: The retailer has named Jim Thomas vice president of sustainability, safety & environmental health. Thomas was CSR vice president at JC Penney.
Sustainable Apparel ...
More Firms Appointing Lead Corporate Responsibility Role
The proportion of organizations with a lead role overseeing corporate responsibility shot up to 62 percent in 2011, versus 42 percent in ...
Environmental & Energy Executive Moves: GRI, American Airlines, EPA, Ameripen, USGBC, Ecotality
Global Reporting Initiative: The organization has appointed Herman Mulder (pictured) as chairman of the board. Mulder is a former senior executive vice-president at ...
Facebook Hires Ex-Google Green Czar
Google's former green czar, Bill Weihl, will join Facebook in late January, according to the website Fresh Dialogues.
The website said Weihl will have ...
Ford Environmental and Safety VP Retires
Ford's group vice president of sustainability, environment and safety engineering, Sue Cischke, has announced her retirement.
Cischke will retire February 1 and will be ...
Do Companies Need a Culture of Sustainability?
Stuart Hart, the S.C. Johnson chair in sustainable global enterprise at ...
Forging a Sustainability Career
Thomas Hesterberg of Navistar and Manish Shah of Fos Biofuels talk about their sustainability career paths at the Brennan School of ...
Google Green Czar Steps Down
Google green czar Bill Weihl quietly stepped down from his post yesterday.
Weihl, who headed the company's Clean Energy Team, confirmed his departure ...
Father of Green Chemistry on ‘Designing Tomorrow’
Paul Anastas, the coiner of the term "green chemistry," a leader of the EPA's Office of Research and Development, and director ...
