0inShare In New York yesterday, GE announced two big steps in its Ecomagination Challenge program. The company unveiled 12 investments, totaling $55 million, as the first round of its goal to put $200 million to work in power grid technology…
Monthly Archives: November 2010
Climate Change: Hotter, Wetter, Windier and Costlier — Insurers Tally the Potential Toll | The Fiscal Times
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It’s not your imagination. The weather in lots of places is getting hotter, windier, and weirder. In September, New York City was hit by its third tornado in the past five years, unprecedented in more than a century of weather…
The End Isn’t Near: A Better Way to Spur Action on Climate Change | GreenBiz
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0inShare From Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, to emotionally wrenching visions such as this video shown at last year’s Copenhagen climate meeting, many climate change communicators opt for shock and emotional awe in their efforts to stir action. Given the…
Is the US Losing the Leading Role in Smart Grid? | GreenBiz
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When the World Economic Forum and Accenture launched their latest look at global progress of smart grid technology, the authors selected Tianjian, China, for the debut. It wasn’t until nearly two months later that the analysis, “Accelerating Successful Smart Grid Pilots (pdf),” was formally unveiled…
BSR 2010: What Will it Take to Feed the Future? | GreenBiz
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0inShare Food production sits at the intersection of some of the most fraught concerns in the landscape of sustainability. Combining life-or-death issues of nutrition, with pressing concerns about the environment together with questions over the role of big industrial players…
BSR 2010: The Push to Merge Financial and Sustainability Reporting | GreenBiz
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0inShare For all the attention flowing into greener corporate practices, there’s scant agreement about how best to document these efforts. Standalone sustainability reports have become de rigueur for most multinationals, pressure is growing to integrate environmental and sustainability practices into…
BSR 2010: Conflict Mineral Supply Headed Toward a Crisis? | GreenBiz
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0inShare The use of “conflict minerals,” already a simmering issue at BSR 2009, shot up the agenda of the manufacturers attending this year’s meeting which are reliant on electronics. Under a new U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rule, a…
BSR 2010: Maersk Slows Down to Go Greener | GreenBiz
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150diggsdigg Nearly two years after oil’s record pricing run-up, many consumers and businesses have at least softened some of the dramatic changes that $5 per gallon gasoline induced. SUV sales will never be what they were, of course, but big…