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Paul McCartney Criticized For Having Hybrid Flown From Japan

AP   |  GREGORY KATZ   |   May 14, 2008


LONDON — Sometimes it seems Paul McCartney can't win for losing. The former Beatle has long been an outspoken advocate of environmental causes and animal rights. He is a vegetarian who won't even wear leather shoes. But now he's being...

Cloud Over Real Estate Drop Has Green Lining

Wall Street Journal   |  Jim Carlton   |   May 9, 2008 09:36 AM


There's a green lining to the real-estate cloud: Developers are dropping plans to build on some choice pieces of land and instead are selling it for such uses as public parks and nature preserves. One of the big beneficiaries is...

Start-Ups Race To Produce Green Cars

Wall Street Journal   |  Edward Taylor   |   May 6, 2008 07:03 PM


Spurred by the belief that the market for fuel-efficient vehicles is about to take off, a slew of tiny car companies is springing up in Europe and the U.S. They are racing to produce the next "green" car, betting that...

Private Equity Giant KKR Goes Green

New York Times   |  Felicity Barringer and Andrew Ross Sorkin   |   May 1, 2008 02:27 PM


Is private equity going green? Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company, the giant buyout firm, is planning to announce on Thursday a new partnership with the Environmental Defense Fund, an advocacy group, to help it improve the environmental performance of the...

Buying Our Way to a Better Planet?

A. Siegel | Posted April 24, 2008 | Politics


A. Siegel

There is a debate, subdued at times, between various approaches toward changing the planet to the better. In many ways, my viewpoint (on the optimist side) tends toward the 'enviro-capitalist', thinking that we can work to structure the economy to make the right choice, the easy (and preferred) choice....

Low-Cost Electric Cars On The Way

Los Angeles Times   |  Ken Bensinger   |   April 22, 2008 01:53 PM


Norwegian automaker Think Global said Monday it planned to sell low-priced electric cars to the masses and will introduce its first models in the U.S. by the end of next year. The battery-powered Think City will be able to travel...

Do You Need to "Believe" in Climate Change?

Andrew Winston | Posted April 22, 2008 | Business


Andrew Winston

Another Earth Day is here. It's probably trite to say, "Hey, every day is Earth Day", but I'll give it a go. Yes, we need to worry about Earth stuff every day, but not just because the planet is in peril - which is a pretty good reason. Think of...

Obama Should Answer Bitterness with Green Industrial Policy for Pennsylvania

Tom Hayden | Posted April 17, 2008 | Politics


Tom Hayden

There's been much talk about the white working class in recent days, but few white working class voices in the debate. Carl Davidson is white working class to his core, an early leader of Students for a Democratic Society, one of the key organizers of the 2002 Chicago anti-war rally...

Shareholders Not Convinced "Going Green" Is Great For Business

New York Times   |  CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH   |   March 26, 2008 11:06 AM


Green is green has become a mantra of environmentalists and, increasingly, corporate chiefs. Between money saved by energy efficiency and money made from selling environmentally sound products, they say, going green is great for shareholders as well as the planet....

Large-Scale Green Business Risk

Andrew Winston | Posted March 17, 2008 | Business


Andrew Winston

I wrote a few weeks ago about Virgin Airline's biofuel test flight. While it was a bit of a publicity stunt, it was also a good thing — we need experimentation to find ways to reduce carbon emissions in all industries. But another news item HuffPo linked to this...

Greenwashing Our Cities?

Majora Carter | Posted March 17, 2008 | Living


Majora Carter

One problem we face with all our well-meaning legislative efforts is that not all laws get enforced equally. Let's face it, no matter what color you are, areas where poverty exists are last on the list when it comes to enforcing our environmental laws.

One trick to making sure...

My Incredible Remarkable New Green Office

James Boyce | Posted March 6, 2008 | Living


James Boyce

I just got a new office for myself and my new media consulting company, Common Sense NMS. We have clients ranging from Veterans For America to Climate Counts. I got a great space in downtown Boston, Leather District, which I am really excited about.

In deciding how...

The Invisible Hand Can Have a Green Thumb

Frances Beinecke | Posted March 5, 2008 | Business


Frances Beinecke

2007 was the year that America's business pages turned green. Everybody wanted to get into the act. Companies from well-known leaders like Whole Foods and Toyota to historical laggards GM and ExxonMobil were touting their plans to save the planet.

There's no question that there is a...

Make Money? Save The World? Gary Just Wrote The Book.

James Boyce | Posted February 23, 2008 | Living


James Boyce

Fellow Huffington Post Blogger, Stonyfield Farm CE-Yo, and all around good guy Gary Hirshberg has just written a great book that takes head on, and shreds completely, perhaps the single biggest myth about the environment and business - the falsehood that being good to the earth is going to...

When Green Gets Sleazy

Peggy Drexler | Posted January 31, 2008 | Living


Peggy Drexler

Something called the Little Green Book showed up in my e-mail box the other day. It's a very creative viral marketing piece from Morgan Stanley that allows friends to pass on 50 things that any household can do to "make life greener and help tackle climate change."

Unfortunately, this well-done...

How to Recycle Less and Do More

Gary Hirshberg | Posted January 28, 2008 | Business


Gary Hirshberg

I'm convinced that smart, hardworking people can profit from practicing what many people call the R's of effective waste management. The R's aren't new, but the order of priority is much more important than people realize. Specifically:

- Reduce or redesign (or both) by using less material and...

Energy In America: Carruption And Obscene Cornography

Harry Fuller | Posted December 20, 2007 | Business


Harry Fuller

It's a clear double victory for the White House and its oil/auto allies. Perhaps their biggest win since U.S. soldiers occupied the Iraqi oil fields.

In the morning the President signs a new energy law giving the auto industry another twelve years to catch up with China. Then in the...

A Public Policy Gimme: Financing Green Construction and Retrofits

David Roberts | Posted December 17, 2007 | Politics


David Roberts

grist.org

Steve Heckeroth's piece "Solar is the solution" has been recommended all over the green blogosphere, first by Robert Rapier, I think. It's great reading, but I wanted to hone in on one thing he mentions -- a piece of public policy that has been woefully under-hyped.

To wit:...

Wal-Mart's "Forest Crimes"

Al Norman | Posted December 15, 2007 | Business


Al Norman

If a tree falls in the forest, will Wal-Mart hear the sound?

Apparently not, according to an environmental investigative report released this week on Wal-Mart's unsustainable timber procurement practices. The new study says Wal-Mart's "good wood" procurement policy only looks good on paper.

Last month, Wal-Mart released a 59-page...

Somebody Didn't Get the Environment vs. Economy Memo

David Roberts | Posted November 30, 2007 | Business


David Roberts

grist.org

More than 150 companies worldwide, representing some $4 trillion in market valuation, have signed the Bali Communiqué:

As business leaders, it is our belief that the benefits of strong, early action on climate change outweigh the costs of not acting:

• The economic and geopolitical costs...

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