Posted 4 days ago

As the electric car is business gets more and more crowded, it feels like we are approaching a breakthrough. It could come from a U.S. automaker like GM with its Volt, from a European company like Re

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Posted 5 days ago

Only a mindless anti-business zealot (and unfortunately there are still too many of those) would argue that environmental groups should not cooperate with big business when they have shared interests.

Posted 1 week ago

Assume, for the moment, that you want Congress to pass strong and effective legislation to regulate greenhouse gases ASAP. Any climate change bill will need the approval of the powerful House Energy a

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Posted 1 week ago

I don't know about you, but when I get financial statements in the mail these days, I don't look forward to opening them. An exception arrived recently my statement from the Calvert Foundation, whi

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Posted 1 week ago

This economic crisis doesn't represent a cycle. It represents a reset, Jeff Immelt, the CEO of General Electric, said today. It's an emotional, social, economic reset. And the biggest impac

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Posted 2 weeks ago

What an extraordinary night for America! Here's a brief dispatch from the streets of Washington, D.C., before getting to today's column: The U Street neighborhood was known as Black Broadway in

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Posted 2 weeks ago

The business of carbon finance has huge potential. If all goes according to plan, a market approach to lowering carbon emissions can help curb global warming, transfer clean technology to the developi

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Posted 2 weeks ago

As the most exciting presidential campaign of my lifetime comes to an end, the newspaper industry is in its worst slump ever. My FORTUNE colleague Richard Siklos has a great column about the industry

Posted 2 weeks ago

Can a company grow and shrink at the same time?That's what The Coca-Cola Co. is trying to do. Like every big company, Coca-Cola wants to grow its revenues and profits. It also wants to reduce its envi

Posted 3 weeks ago

One of the irritating cliches of the climate change conversation is that there is no silver bullet that will solve the problem, only silver buckshot. Like most cliches, though, it's true. Today's Sust