published July 28, 2010 and has No Comments
Image courtesy of Seventh Generation If the corporate responsibility (CR) movement has had one overriding success, it's that it's done a great job communicating the advantages business sustainability can bring to the environment and society at large. Even the most myopic executives know embedding CR in their corporate strategy is a boon to the environment, communities, employees, and other ...
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published July 28, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo via US Coast Guard It was a surprise to absolutely nobody when news surfaced this week that BP's gaffe-prone CEO Tony Hayward would be resigning in coming months (that he'd be snagging a handsome $17 million pension for a job not-so-well-done was another story ). But before Hayward could allow himself to fade from the public eye, he ...
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published July 28, 2010 and has No Comments
Slightly more than a quarter the existing taxi fleet is made up of hybrid vehicles already. Photo: Brian Snelson via flickr. A quick (and hopefully not final) update in the ongoing legal saga around New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's plan to convert the city's taxi fleet over to hybrid vehicles . As the New York Times reports, ... ...
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published July 23, 2010 and has No Comments
Image Credit: VisLab Intercontinental Autonomous Challenge If you're planning on driving from Rome to Shanghai this summer, you might encounter two small, orange cars along the route. Covered with seven cameras and four laser scanners each, they'll look a bit different from your car. And the driver...well that's the thing. There is no driver. The cars, which really look ...
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published July 15, 2010 and has No Comments
Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt standing next to boulder at Taurus-Littrow during third EVA. Photo: NASA, Public domain. Our Savior in the Sky While Japan would like to build a solar power station on the Moon , the European Space Agency is thinking even further ahead: What if some terrible catastrophe (for more info, read about existential risks ) ...
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published July 12, 2010 and has No Comments
photo via SOS Ministries Recently, friends and new college graduates have been asking me how they can get into the field of sustainability. When the question has arisen, I have found myself wondering where the green jobs are sprouting. Then, yesterday, I came across a post in Mother Nature Network listing the top 10 cities for green jobs. California ...
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published July 12, 2010 and has No Comments
Image from zeroemissionbook Suddenly everyone is doing it: turning "paper" packaging into something plant-able and grow-able. Be it book covers, boxes, or wrapping paper, now you can have both: a nice wrapping and a good end to it. First off, summer reading: novelist James Kaelan's first novel, We're Getting On , has a cover made of birch seed paper ...
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published July 8, 2010 and has No Comments
Image credit: Recharge News Germany is already a global leader in solar power , but that's just a start as far as Germans are concerned. It's already been shown that Germany could produce 100% of its electricity from renewables by 2050 . Now the country's environment agency is arguing that it should. Could it be that some countries are ...
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published July 8, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo via Abi Skipp A new report from Pike Research forcasts good news for renewable energy and mobile base stations (the wireless communications station used to connect cell phone networks). Clean energy will power 4.5% of base stations by 2014, and while that doesn't sound like much, it's a boost up from the mere 0.11% in 2010, a 4090% ...
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published July 2, 2010 and has No Comments
Interior of a desalination plant. Photo via Lance Cheung Just last week we noted that the UAE is dependent on fossil fuel- and natural gas-burning desalination plants to keep up their excessive water use, and that the reliance could spell a water disaster in the very near future as fuel supplies run low. However, there's another source of energy ...
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