This is a crucial time in the history of our species. We need transformational leadership that embraces supposedly unachievable challenges and then rises above them -- in order to obviate the unintended and unimaginable consequences of an ice-free North Pole.

Last year, Bill Gates noted in an interview with Alan Murray of the Wall Street Journal that technologies like solar photovoltaics and LED lights were...

Entrepreneurs are equipped to grow the business models to deploy solutions to our global energy needs. Nations like the U.S. and Canada are inept investors and entrepreneurs. But they do set the tone and attitude of their nation.

Between basic economics, security, national competitiveness (the push to a clean economy creates jobs), the logic for a distributed, non-nuclear, non-fossil-fuel grid and transportation network seems very strong.

These invisible culprits silently sweep the seas bringing us our shiny new toys, cars, computers and Q tips, as fast as we require with the upmost con...

Driving change and convincing people that green is good for business requires logic, facts, examples ... but also passion, emotion, and yes, cheerleading. What's wrong with celebrating every now and then?

What if solving climate change were a race to the top? What if companies were in competition to win the next industrial revolution, with the winners being those who most reduced their greenhouse gas pollution?

While the expectations for the United Nations COP16 climate negotiations now underway here in Cancun may be low, they are high elsewhere along the shi...

Much of the discussion on Earth Day in D.C. was about business and growth. Key quote: "I'm done with the false choice between the economy and the environment."