Posted 6 days ago

I must have done something wrong to someone today because I feel like I'm in some kind of surreal dream. The day started well with a great event hosted by Xerox in Dallas, talking sustainability with

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Posted 1 week ago

There's a funny story in the New York Times today about Arizonans getting upset about the state shutting down highway rest stops. Arizona has a serious budget gap to fill, like most states.This is wha

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Posted 2 weeks ago

Every year, major sporting events get greener and the goals for renewable energy use, carbon-neutrality, or zero-waste get tougher. The Vancouver Olympics which just ended featured a large range of g

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Posted 4 weeks ago

Reality 1: Last year, the Toyota Prius was the bestselling car in Japan. On the back of innovations like the hybrid gas-electric engine, Toyota also became the largest car seller in the world by volum

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Posted 4 weeks ago

What do you call a group that uses large snowstorms to deride the scientific evidence for climate change? Fox News I guess.The absurdity of pointing out that there's snow in the winter -- in one part

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Posted 5 weeks ago

The Superbowl ads this year were fairly mediocre, on top of often being oddly dated and consistently anti-women. But one ad is getting a lot of discussion/attention in the green world: The Audi ad ab

Posted 5 weeks ago

It's been a couple months since the global climate negotiations in Copenhagen. Whether you're a fan of a global cap on carbon emissions or not, it's important to think about what COP15's failure mean

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Posted 6 weeks ago

[A post from December from Harvard Business that i forgot to post here...but it's still timely!]No matter what happens in Copenhagen, or in the follow up meetings in Mexico and elsewhere, the world is

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Posted 7 weeks ago

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 2

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Posted 12 weeks ago

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 climate change the only reason your business shou

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