Terry Tamminen

Zhongwei "Wally" Jiang is a multi-cultural entrepreneur with more 24/7 activity than the Energizer bunny. His WesTech Solar Energy company in China and green city developments in Texas make the most of what Nature and efficient technologies can provide. His secret to success is stitching together people, technology,...

What's trending in Q1 of 2012? Three things that will cost more going forward and one that will definitely be heading down -- and the causes behind all four are the same.

GOING UP: Insurance. California, New York and Washington recently mandated that insurance companies report how they...

After numerous trips to India and discussions with the leaders of many businesses (large and small), two things are clear. There is already a U.S.-sized market here and it's very green.

India's population of about 1.2 billion includes roughly the same number of people in various socio-economic levels...

It's that time of year when someone at a holiday gathering inevitably asks about your resolutions for 2012. Feel free to plagiarize mine.

5. Grow more of my own food. China's biggest dairy firm admitted that some of its products contained a toxin commonly found in corn and...

"This obsession with a legally binding treaty [to tackle climate change] is an obstacle for countries achieving targets they have committed to," declared Paul Bledsoe, a climate change adviser to President Clinton. "What we need is national will to reach stated goals."

Given that the only international agreement so...

In the Broadway hit musical, Book of Mormon, a woman from Uganda envisions paradise as a place where warlords are benevolent and the Red Cross hands out as much flour as you can eat. In other words, the things that inspire hope and gratitude in any part of the world...

Here are five of the scariest things on earth -- that is, if we hope for a sustainable economic future.

1. Seven billion people. The United Nations predicts that on Halloween this year, the human population will hit the seven billion mark. But that's not the scary statistic. The one...

Reading tributes to the fallen tech hero, Steve Jobs, from around the globe, two things are clear to me -- his successor is likely to be in the clean energy sector and working somewhere other than the U.S.

I'm not saying Americans have lost their inventive mojo, just that I...

Reading news from Washington D.C., while spending a week in China, it seems to me that some members of Congress are backing policies that would make America much more like China -- without any of the economic benefits.

The House voted last week 249 to 169 to curtail...

As summer gives grudging way to our back-to-work lives, busy execs will likely compare notes at Chamber of Commerce luncheons about the economy and job creation. We can all imagine those conversations, given recent market and political news, but here are a few you won't be likely to overhear.

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Ever see those signs that say, "If you lived here, you'd be home by now"? They're usually affixed to urban revitalization projects located near mass transit hubs (of course you're commuting another hour to your sprawl development in the 'burbs when you read it). Those projects represent a part of...

The House of Representatives has proposed legislation to cut USEPA funding by almost 20% and curtail its ability to tackle a wide range of pollution issues. The regulated industries and their allies in Congress may be hopeful of reduced cost and a less intrusive government, but they should be very...

Everyone loves a "man bites dog" story. Not everyone likes those tales, however, if they embarrass someone in the process.

Take the news out of the oil-rich United Arab Emirates, where fast food giant McDonalds has just announced that they will fuel their delivery trucks with bio-diesel made from their...

A recent study by the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York discovered that America spends a "staggering" $76.6 billion every year to cover the health expenses of our children who get sick because of exposure to toxic chemicals and air pollution. That figure includes the cost of medical...

On Earth Day last week, I saw a burger wrapper tossed from an old Buick and was stunned that anyone still thought it was OK to use our shared city habitat as a personal dumpster. Later that same day however, I saw a homeless man pick up a Styrofoam cup...

Wars in the Middle East and oil rig blowouts in the Gulf have given us gasoline in the range of $4 to $5/gallon. Growing concerns over asthma-inducing pollution from coal fired power plants, not to mention mercury pollution in food supplies and greenhouse gas emissions, have resulted in the termination...

America, it could be worse. We could be Europe. I mean, we're still mostly in the race with China -- in the past five years, they improved energy efficiency by nearly 20% and have a new five-year plan for another 20%. I say big deal -- the Empire State Building...

The ferocious tsunami that devastated Japan's coast is a tragic reminder that we have an uneasy relationship with our oceans. While we can't prevent earthquakes, we can minimize at least some of the damage from tsunamis on American shores by dealing with climate change and rising ocean levels now.

March...

A few weeks ago in Lamont, California, a fighting rooster killed a man, when the bird slashed him with the blades he had attached to its legs.

A bizarre one-time oddity? No, just days earlier a man in India was also killed when his fighting rooster slashed his throat. Just...

As the results of our "mission accomplished" in Iraq are tallied by people with Nobel Prizes on their resumes, it appears we may have made a few bad bets. But given the alternatives, it's clear we should now double down on the oil war strategy, but this time go after...