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The Senate's revised stimulus bill provides $2 billion in funding for a high-speed rail corridor, as well as another $1.1 billion to upgrade existing ...
AP | DIRK LAMMERS | Posted 03.14.2009 | Green
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The U.S. could produce enough ethanol to displace nearly a third of all gasoline use by 2030, but gas would have to cost mor...
AP | DIRK LAMMERS | Posted 03.14.2009 | Green
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — If federal renewable fuel mandates require ethanol to be mixed into gasoline, the nation's largest independent oil refiner f...
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 03.13.2009 | Green
Heidi Fleiss, best known as the Hollywood Madam, had always had plans of opening up an above-board brothel in the Las Vegas area. But the economy has ...
TreeHugger.com | Posted 03.12.2009 | Green
Our Society's Worker Ants: Heavy Vehicles We often talk about greener light vehicles, but we must not forget that heavy vehicles (garbage trucks, bus...
Peter Brown and Geoff Garver | Posted 03.12.2009 | Green
The evidence is everywhere that continued dedication to 'economic growth,' per se, will destroy the Earth's ability to provide a healthy home for most life forms.
Fast Company | Posted 03.12.2009 | Green
It's become commonplace in the sustainability world to say water is the oil of the 21st century. But it may be more accurate to say it's the new carbo...
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 03.12.2009 | Green
LiveScience.com reports that people are buying as many or more green products now as they were before the economy, but that they still have questions ...
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 03.08.2009 | Green
Sierra Nevada Brewing, already one of the greenest breweries out there, just bought into a new way to turn waste into money. The brewer has worked out...
Dave Burdick | Posted 03.06.2009 | Green
It's important to watch companies that aggressively market their green efforts but it's also important to recognize a company that's legitimately doing the right thing of its own volition.
Kevin Grandia | Posted 02.22.2009 | Green
The environmental movement needs to start thinking more like Coca Cola.
Mairi Beautyman | Posted 02.21.2009 | Green
Somewhere, there's a little black book that contains everything you need to know to create a successful business: In the 21st century, that book says green headquarters.
ecopreneurist.com | Jennifer Kaplan | Posted 09.08.2009 | Green
This morning I found myself thinking about inaugurations past. In particular, John F. Kennedy's 1961 Inaugural Address. That, along with meeting Auden...
Stefan Deeran | Posted 02.15.2009 | Green
Apple has released a statement opposing a proposal that would require the disclosure of their sustainability strategy, arguing there is enough environmental information on the company's website.
greenbiz.com | Marc Gunther | Posted 02.15.2009 | Green
Here's how it will work, as explained by Scott: A separate recycling company, led by Coca-Cola Enteprises, the world's biggest Coke bottler (don't ask...
Andrew Winston | Posted 02.14.2009 | Green
What will happen now in this damaged economy? It would be silly to suggest that the intensity of the focus on green will continue unabated. But we'll see a form of what I'll call "light green" this year.
Treehugger | Jaymi Haymbach | Posted 02.10.2009 | Green
2008 was a banner year for green tech start ups. While the economy crashed, investments in clean technology stayed relatively strong. We're taking a l...
Michael Shtender-Auerbach | Posted 02.05.2009 | Business
Below is a top ten list of social risks business must mitigate to create a sustainable work environment that respects the rights of human beings while maintaining economic viability in 2009.
Wall Street Journal | ELIZABETH GARONE | Posted 01.30.2009 | Green
Make it a daily habit. Start small. "The best way to start is to reduce all the waste that involves paper, plastic or petro," says Tim Sanders, author...
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 01.30.2009 | Green
The Wall Street Journal reported today on corporate goals of "carbon neutrality" and just what those goals entail. The story presents a highly skeptic...
Paige Donner | Posted 01.25.2009 | Green
Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. We've all heard that axiom before. Tom Szaky, Founder and CEO of TerraCycle, offers up his own twist: He sees no trash.
Jim Schumacher and Debbie Bookchin | Posted 01.25.2009 | Green
With oil virtually at an end, what better time to re-examine the economic paradigm that allowed us to think we could use up finite resources and just "grow" forever?
Robert Kuttner | Posted 01.21.2009 | Politics
Obama may soon find that he is committing a big sin against one of the major premises of the reigning ideology, and will create a head-on collision with one of the cherished dogmas of market fundamentalism -- "free trade."
Mark Green | Posted 01.20.2009 | Politics
Is Obama's choice of Rick Warren another example of the president-elect giving conservatives the visual while later giving progressives the policy?
Jean Jerome Baudry | Posted 01.19.2009 | Green
As we enter 2009, it seems as though businesses everywhere are incorporating green practices into their day to day operations.
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Wall Street Journal | Posted 03.14.2009 | Green