How the world’s largest shipping line orders up efficiency. Maersk Line executive Jacob Sterling tells us how. If global commerce has a circulatory system, it’s the network of thousands of container vessels that ply the world’s oceans, moving goods from port…
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Are We Entering Cleantech’s Dark Ages? | GreenBiz
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The budget brinksmanship that, amazingly, lasted all the way into the first days of August pushed me over the edge. Whether a willful choice, or some kind of subliminal denial, I opted for a partial mental vacation in recent weeks,…
Utilities Turn to Mergers as Demand for Power Slows | New York Times
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Even as the number of tablet computers, electric vehicles and Internet data centers multiply rapidly, electricity demand is barely growing. Low-power processors, smarter manufacturing plants, rooftop solar panels and other technologies are keeping a lid on electricity use. The slowdown is…
Elusive efficiency: Why saving energy is so hard and what can we do about it? | Ensia
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When it comes to reducing fossil fuel use, increasing energy efficiency has obvious appeal: help the environment, boost energy security and save money, too—without the grit-your-teeth-and-get-by-without attitude of 1970s-style energy conservation. Not only that, but boosting the amount of work…
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…
China’s Rare-Earth Monopoly | Technology Review
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An attractive material: Neodymium (shown here) is one of the rare-earth elements that are key to making very strong magnets for compact electric motors. Credit: Hi-Res Images of Chemical Elements Energy — China’s Rare-Earth Monopoly The rest of…
Talk – The future of green? | Ross School of Business, Univ. of Michigan
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In October, 2009, I presented at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business discussing what a greener global economy might — and might not — look like in 30 years. To check out a video of my talk, watch below.
Can China Go Green? | BusinessWeek
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Beijing has big plans to curb pollution and start a cleantech industry. But the global recession and looming trade frictions will test its resolve China’s unprecedented growth in recent years has come at a terrible price. Two-thirds of its rivers…
Book review – Hot, Flat, and Crowded By Thomas L. Friedman | BusinessWeek
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Enlisting Father Profit to Save Mother Nature — Tom Friedman makes a gripping political, environmental, and economic case for green innovation Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution— and How It Can Renew America. By Thomas L. Friedman. Farrar, Straus &…
Book review – “The World Without Us” By Alan Weisman | BusinessWeek
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Save The Planet: Disappear — Weisman presents a curiously refreshing vision of the apocalypse THE WORLD WITHOUT US By Alan Weisman. Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press — 324pp — $24.95 The extinction of humankind is a grim topic. Yet in The World…