Many of us in North America spend our summer weekends and long evenings lounging on [eco] patio furniture, playing with [green] beach balls, or waterskiing across the lake on skis [made with bio-based materials]. Perhaps you prefer standing on your [wooden] deck, barbequing with [greener] tongs and trays.

Integrating...

The Forestry Products Association of Canada (FPAC), an association consisting of more than 20 member companies from across the wood, pulp and paper industries, issued a brief paper in February 2011, entitled The New Face of the Canadian Forest Industry.

This paper illustrates clearly that "the...

I was recently in New York City for the 2011 NewNet Envirotech and Clean Energy Investor Summit. The full-day investor conference was an engaging event for investors looking to pinpoint the best investment opportunities across an increasingly growing and varied market of clean, green innovations.

Vertichem was...

I blogged last month on this page about the importance of commercialization in the green industry. Reliance on government subsidies can be dangerous, as subsidies inevitably run out. We have seen this in wind and solar. In the public sector, I have found that a good idea backed by good...

For some time now, most of the proposed renewables-focused legislation has been centered on retroactively trying to make "green" end products, rather than making them environmentally friendly from the start. This is, as New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman recently said, what is plaguing the push to be "comprehensively" greener....