Check out the biggest green business news stories from around the blogosphere! [read more]
The X PRIZE Foundation, well known for its $10 million Ansari X PRIZE for building and launching a spacecraft to...[read more]
Friday's second session at the Net Impact North America conference was Cleantech Venture Capital Investing. After having interviewed two of the three panelists prior to the conference (posts are here and here), the panel itself was an opportunity to think more deeply about the lessons offered by some of the most experienced players in the cleantech sector.[read more]
Multinational oil industry giant Royal Dutch Shell yesterday held an engaging live Web chat and supporting panel discussion on a topic of increasingly vital importance: Communicating sustainability. What does sustainability mean? How are energy and business organizations addressing sustainability, as well as communicating to the public? These and more were discussed...[read more]
If you’ve been seriously bruised in the stock market lately, and your 401k is starting to look like a 201k,...[read more]
GreenerBuildings.com released its 2008 Green Building Impact Report yesterday, the first comprehensive evaluation of the real and verifiable environmental...[read more]
This is fantastic news - and another sign that the stars are aligning for some serious sustainability-oriented policy changes to...[read more]
1Block off the Grid, an initiative powered by a model of community purchasing, aims to help the masses reduce...[read more]
You know times have changed when a German solar energy company is offering to throw General Motors a bone...[read more]
Organic, Biodynamic Wines Are Rapidly Flushing The Market. But how do you know what you're buying?[read more]
A year ago GenGreenLife.com launched as a social network site with listings of environmentally friendly businesses. It claims to...[read more]
The word “sustainability” is seen, heard and debated often these days. Just what it means varies almost as much as people do, however. Earlier today, Shell hosted a live Web chat on the issue that included video and text transcripts in which a variety of professionals voiced their opinions about greenwash, the dos and don'ts of corporate media campaigns to do with “sustainability,” and just what is or isn't meant by it.[read more]
Executive Director of the non-profit Make it Right, Tom Darden, has been working closely with New Orleans officials and community leaders like Charles Allen in order to rebuild the Lower 9th Ward with eco-friendly houses. He dubs it, “the toughest redevelopment project in the country.” As if the idea of constructing eco-friendly homes in the devastated area weren’t innovative enough, the NGO’s origins are more original than most. Make it Right (MIR) was started by Brad Pitt in response to hurricane Katrina. It now has 25 employees and just completed its first 6 environmentally friendly homes built using the cradle to cradle philosophy of zero waste. [read more]
The room was packed on Friday for a panel entitled "Bringing Electric Cars to the Mass Market". The moderator, Bill Moore, editor of EV World, set the stage with a historical perspective and then launched straight into the meat.[read more]
Nestled somewhere in the forests of northern Patagonia, amongst dramatic Andean peaks, alpine lakes, and fiery winds could very...[read more]
This week in ClimatePULSE we take a look at some of the best techniques for hosting an environmentally friendly conference or event. Given the current hysteria surrounding corporate sustainability projects, the simple task of promoting your organization’s green goodwill through hosting enviro-friendly events is often overlooked. So just how do you easily conform to environmentally sound behavior? It’s quite simple. Without overlooking the importance of ditching bottled water, there are 5 simple steps your company can take to portray a green image at your next big conference or meeting. Check below for the top solutions. [read more]
Last week I attended a discussion entitled After the Election: Where is Cleantech Headed Now? hosted by TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs)...[read more]
San Francisco is the first city in the U.S. to have implemented a plastic bag ban, but there are many...[read more]
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Mitsubishi Ramps Up Cleantech Commitment, BP Bows Out of UK Wind Energy EffortsIn the wake of the U.S. presidential election,...[read more]
In 2003 Management Consulting firm Accenture created the Accenture Development Partnership (ADP) as a means of providing consulting services to NGOs, foundations and donor organizations working in the development sector. Since its launch, ADP has completed 200+ projects in 55 countries with more than 45 different client organizations.[read more]
Next week I am off to Boston for GreenBuild, the US Green Building Council's premier event. Greenbuild International Conference and...[read more]
This weekend leaders of the world's 20 biggest economies gather for the G20 summit. Gary Gardner and Michael Renner,...[read more]
Since the credit crisis began, many experts have called for ‘A Green New Deal’ to rescue us. But how will green solutions be our savior, and why – at the end of the age of oil and a time of increasingly dangerous human-caused climatic instability – is this type of policy package so crucial for President Obama to implement during his first 100 Days?[read more]
The National Renewable Energy Lab is teaming up with Iberdrola Renewables to reduce the uncertainty and risks of developing solar power projects. The two have deployed the first of several solar resource monitoring stations in Arizona, part of an envisaged nation-spanning instrumentation network dubbed SOLRMAP.[read more]
