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Environmental Executive Moves: White House, NSF, BIO, Aclara, Locus Technologies

January 27, 2015January 27, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Here’s the latest news on hirings, promotions and departures among environmental leaders. White House: Brian Deese will replace the outgoing John Podesta as a top adviser to President Obama with a special focus on implementing Obama’s climate-change agenda, the National Journal reports.Deese is currently the deputy director of the White ... Read more »

Monsanto, Dow, Others Raise Nearly $8M to Defeat GMO Ballot Initiative

October 31, 2014October 30, 2014 by Ken Jennison

Monsanto and Dow AgroSciences are among the seed companies that have raised about $8 million to defeat a Maui County voter initiative to temporarily ban GMO farming until the county conducts a public health and environmental study of its impact, as reported by the Honolulu Civil Beat. Campaign spending records ... Read more »

Increasingly Homogeneous Food Supply ‘Threat to’ Health, Food Security

March 5, 2014March 5, 2014 by Leon Walker

Over the last 50 years, human diets around the world have grown ever more similar and the trend shows no signs of slowing, with major consequences for human nutrition and global food security, according to research carried out at International Center for Tropical Agriculture. According to Increasing homogeneity in global food ... Read more »

Cleantech: Predictions for 2014

December 19, 2013December 19, 2013 by Jennifer Hermes

Continuing a tradition since 2007, once again we bring you some end-of-year thoughts about where we think the cleantech investment theme is going. Our cleantech-specific analysis and advisory firm Kachan & Co. focuses on this space. We publish research reports. We get briefings from companies introducing new technology. We publish ... Read more »

Cleantech Future Breeds New Optimism

October 31, 2013October 31, 2013 by Jennifer Hermes

If you’ve not been paying much attention to cleantech in the last little while, it’s time to sit up and take notice. Because post-Solyndra, cleantech has been quietly gaining momentum. We had the chance to take a close look at the fundamentals of cleantech over the last two months in ... Read more »

How ‘Green’ Is Your Ride?

October 28, 2013October 28, 2013 by Jennifer Hermes

If you live in an urban area, you may have started seeing cars on the road with a striking accessory – a hot pink fuzzy mustache attached to the front grille. Maybe you’ve seen cars with bright orange “mirror socks.” Or perhaps you’ve noticed an increase in large black SUVs ... Read more »

Conservation as a Mindset

October 17, 2013October 17, 2013 by Jennifer Hermes

The beginning of October held an interesting week of extremes, replete with the full spectrum of emotions and events that make this very small world go round. The week began with a distressing reminder of our precarious environmental reality, delivered in the form of a newly released United Nations Intergovernmental ... Read more »

What the Carbon Budget Means for Business

September 30, 2013September 30, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The world’s carbon budget will be overdrawn in 30 years, says World Resources Institute’s Kelly Levin in a blog post. The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report published Friday found that to stay below the internationally agreed-upon goal of limiting warming to 2 degrees Celsius (compared to pre-industrial levels), ... Read more »

Energy Efficiency from Building ‘Green’: Passing out Financial Returns

September 25, 2013 by Environmental Leader

There has been a noticeable renewed interest from the building sector in carbon footprint issues, linked not only to President Obama’s recently announced Climate Action Plan but also out of genuine concern for shepherding a positive relationship between buildings, climate change and public health. Specifically, opinion leaders and executives alike ... Read more »

Alternative Fuels Power Alaska Airlines, Coast Guard Ships

July 24, 2013July 24, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Alaska Airlines says it will begin using biofuel to power its Hawaii flights as soon as 2018. The airline has signed an agreement with Hawai`i BioEnergy, a consortium of three of Hawaii’s largest landowners and three venture capital companies that plan to use locally grown feedstocks to produce biofuels. Hawai`i ... Read more »

Environmental Executive Moves: White House, NSF, BIO, Aclara, Locus Technologies

Monsanto, Dow, Others Raise Nearly $8M to Defeat GMO Ballot Initiative

Increasingly Homogeneous Food Supply ‘Threat to’ Health, Food Security

Cleantech: Predictions for 2014

Cleantech Future Breeds New Optimism

How ‘Green’ Is Your Ride?

Conservation as a Mindset

What the Carbon Budget Means for Business

Energy Efficiency from Building ‘Green’: Passing out Financial Returns

Alternative Fuels Power Alaska Airlines, Coast Guard Ships

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