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Biotech and organic food: a love story
Pamela Ronald Earlier this week at FORTUNE’s Brainstorm Green conference about business and the environment, I led a conversation about food and agriculture during which a communications executive named David Kalson asked the question: Can...
Baseball, a river, plastic bags and behavioral economics
It was a beautiful day for a ballgame yesterday at Nationals Park. President Obama threw out the first ball (to cheers), temperatures climbed close to 80 degrees, the game was a sellout and the ballpark overlooking Washington D.C.’s other river–...
Selling water to the global poor
Entrepreneur and lawyer Kevin McGovern has founded 15 companies. Some are household names, like Sobe Beverages, which he sold to PepsiCo for a reported $370 million in 2000. Others are quieter money-makers, like Tristrata, which owns 150...
Yale’s bet on clean tech
Old Blue is investing in green. Yale University’s influential $16.3 billion endowment has taken stakes in startup companies aimed at developing clean technologies, Chinese solar and wind turbine manufacturers and in timberland certified as...
Should Whole Foods, like Google, get out of China?
Google is exiting China for a number of reasons, including the hacking of its data, but fundamentally, Google found that it couldn’t live up to its values of openness in a repressive society. Whole Foods Market has a different China problem: The...
How to cool the planet
Take a step back from the daily to-and-fro about climate change, and it’s hard to find any reason to cheer. Copenhagen was pretty much a flop. The Republicans somehow captured a 41-vote majority in the U.S. Senate. Climate scientists are under...
Jeff Hollender: Greenwashing is getting worse
Today’s guest post comes from Jeffrey Hollender, the founder, executive chairperson and chief inspired protagonist of Seventh Generation, which makes safe and environmentally-responsible products for the home. Jeff is energetic and multi-talented–...
Your parents were wrong
The Sierra Club and American Electric Power, the nation’s largest coal-burning utility, don’t agree on much, but there is this: Money does grow on trees. Along with other big environmental groups and such businesses as Duke Energy and El Paso Corp...
OPower, peer pressure and climate change
We can solve the climate crisis with the right tools–solar panels, wind turbines, electric car batteries, No. 10 envelopes and smiley faces. Envelopes? Smiley faces? Yep. A startup called OPower has learned that by mailing utility customers...
My five New Year’s wishes
Corporate America: Making the world a better place…or not. That used to be the tagline of this blog, and it remains the standard I use to judge companies. Are the jobs they create enabling their employees to flourish? Are their products and...
My favorite green technology
No offense to those working hard to bring wind, solar or geothermal energy to scale, or to people who are jazzed about energy efficiency, but I’m going to end my blogging for 2009 by saying that I am really excited about electric cars. It’s my...
Google, Jane Goodall, forests and the cloud
Not long ago, the only people who could access and analyze satellite images of the earth were government officials, the military, well-equipped scientists and oil, gas and mining companies. Today, anyone with a computer and Internet connection...
