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Fruits and veggies are terrible things to waste
By now, you’ve surely heard about the environmental impact of food waste. But the scale of the problem is not as well known. In a recent report, the Natural Resources Defense Council came up with these...
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Patagonia helps to save….Patagonia
The more I learn about Patagonia Inc., the more impressed I am with the way that Yvon Chouinard and his colleagues run their business. The outdoor gear and clothing company supports what it calls the...
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John Mackey: Hippie, libertarian, CEO
The top executives of big publicly-traded US companies, in my experience, tend to be rather drab fellows (nearly all are men) who choose their words carefully, hew carefully to the middle of the road...
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RSF Social Finance: Making money, making change
Happy customers of Revolution Foods If you have a few extra dollars in savings, and you’d like to earn more than 0.00001% interest or whatever it is your bank or money market fund is paying, and you’d...
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Turning JP Morgan green from the inside out
Matthew Arnold Can Wall Street become a friend of the earth? For nearly a decade now, most of the big investment and commercial banks have had chief sustainability officers, but it’s never been clear...
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Peak sustainability? Thankfully, not….
Dave Stangis and Tod Arbogast at the GreenBiz Forum Have we reached “peak sustainability”? It’s an intriguing, and a worrisome idea, the notion that the much-hyped green business wave of the late 2000s...
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Why sustainability has to be a team sport
One of the great virtues of market capitalism is that power is widely dispersed–among consumers, corporate executives, investors and regulators. Lots of people get lots of votes that collectively shape...
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Oxfam America: Big Food is failing the poor
New research by Oxfam America into the social and environmental policies of the world’s 10 biggest food and beverage companies puts Nestle, Unilever and Coca-Cola at the top of the list and Associated...
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Shell: Get ready for a warmer world
Solar power and natural gas will grow rapidly in the next few decades, if new scenarios from global energy giant Shell prove accurate. And as the technology to capture carbon from the burning fossil...
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d.light: Solar power for the poor
A girl in India, studying with d.light About three decades ago, Donn Tice was an MBA student at the University of Michigan, studying with the late C.K. Prahalad, who was developing his argument that...
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If electric cars are the answer, what’s the question?
An eVgo charging station Like many environmentalists, I’d love to see lots of people driving electric cars. If broadly adopted, electric cars will go some way towards limiting air pollution, reducing...
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Can a solar-powered plane help curb climate change?
If you are among those who believe that the environmental movement needs more upbeat and inspiring stories, and less gloom and doom, you will want to hear about Bertrand Piccard, Andre Borschberg and...
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Verlasso: Farming salmon the right way
“In the fish counter, all the salmon are dead, all the salmon are red, and none of them can tell a story. It’s incumbent on us to tell the story.” That’s Scott Nichols, the director of Verlasso....
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Meat lovers, rejoice! Cattle could be a climate-change solution.
It’s become a truism of the environmental movement. Eating meat is bad for the planet. A few years back, a couple of researchers published a study claiming that livestock is responsible for 51 percent...
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Cause: Eat, drink, be merry, do good
Imagine a bar and restaurant that, like Newman’s Own, gives all of its profits to charity. Beer and benevolence, it’s been called. Drafts and donations. More fun, in any case, than salad dressing....
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An odd couple? HR and sustainability
Today’s guest post comes from Andrew Savitz, the author of a new book called Talent, Transformation and the Triple Bottom Line: How Companies Can Leverage Human Resources to Achieve Sustainable Growth...
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In defense of environmental extremism
David Brower and friends The other night, I saw A Fierce Green Fire, a documentary history of the environmental movement, as part of the excellent DC Environmental Film Festival. The movie was OK,...
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Sustainability by anecdote
I write stories. I read stories. I love a good story. “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world,” says the British novelist Philip Pullman. The...
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Taxing carbon at Disney, Microsoft and Shell
Many economists, left and right, favor a carbon tax. Requiring companies and, ultimately, all of us to pay when we generate greenhouse gas emissions would deliver many benefits. By raising the costs of...
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In Haiti, philanthropy could lead to profits for NRG Solar
NRG Energy volunteers working in Haiti A startling encounter with a young boy got David Crane, the CEO of NRG Energy, hooked on Haiti. It was his first night in the Caribbean nation, months after the...
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