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Amanda Little: Take me out to the (green) ballgame
Today’s guest column comes from Amanda Little (née Griscom), one of my favorite writers on energy and the environment, and it’s on a very timely topic–the greening of sports. Amanda is the author of Power Trip: The Story of America’s Love...
Glimpsing the future at Net Impact 2010
My favorite conference is Net Impact’s annual gathering, mostly because of the crowd—this weekend, about 2,500 people, most of them MBA students, undergrads and young professionals, gathered at University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business in...
What’s beyond cap-and-trade?
Given that cap-and-trade is dead–yes, dead, dead, dead–what’s next for energy and climate policy in Washington? Perhaps more than you might think, even though the incoming Congress will likely be more conservative that the outgoing crew. So, at...
Big business’s big innovation problem
To drive the environmental change the planet needs, industrial capitalism must transform itself, radically if not necessarily rapidly. Disruptive, breakthrough innovation is needed, on a mass scale. Government is failing us. Can business step up?...
How to innovate…sustainably
So I have a confession to make: I’m kind of bored by eco-efficiency. Yes, I know that this week’s announcement of new government standards for refrigerators and the super-insulated double-hung windows in the Empire State building and Yahoo’s new ‘...
Urban farming: It’s a growth business
Urban farming may sound like an oxymoron, but judging from the 375-person sell-out crowd at the first Urban Farm Summit in Washington, D.C., the idea is catching on like organics at Walmart. The recent one-day event called, Sowing Seeds Here and Now...
KaBOOM! What an impact!
Darell Hammond of KABOOM! Fifteen years ago, Darell Hammond, a 24-year-old college dropout who was raised in group home outside of Chicago, had an idea. He wanted to build playgrounds for kids who needed a place to play. He started with a playground...
Sustainable consumption: Opportunity or oxymoron?
Imagine that you’re the chief sustainability officer of a FORTUNE 500 company. During a meeting with your CEO, you say: “We need to talk to consumers about using less.” Improbable? Sure. Impossible? Perhaps not. An important conversation to start?...
The industrialization of fishing
I’m just back from a week at the Delaware shore where we ate lots of fish, as we always do at the beach. This is more of an emotional than a logical decision–crabs are about the only locally caught seafood–but the beach towns have plenty of seafood...
The candy bar at the bottom of the pyramid
Last week, Nestle, the world’s largest food company, launched a barge called Nestlé Até Você a Bordo – or Nestlé Takes You Onboard – on an 18-day voyage up the Amazon River in Brazil. This so-called floating supermarket will bring more than 300 well...
PSEG’s Ralph Izzo: Greening the garden state
Before we discuss big issues like global warming, carbon pricing and renewable energy, I toss a couple of “lightning round” questions at Ralph Izzo, the chairman, president and CEO of New Jersey-based PSEG, a $13.3-billion a year energy...
Amsterdam: Cycling to sustainability
You know the cliche about “when in Rome…” When in Amsterdam, that means riding a bike. Everybody does it. Sometimes two at a time! I rode a bike around Amsterdam for three days last week. How easy was it? When I walked into the convention...
