Adam Werbach is a true leader in the green movement and today he announced another big deal – the launch of Saatchi & Saatchi S. After years in the environmental movement he founded Act Now to help commercial enterprises green up their act. Now they’re taking the product and process innovation, grassroots workforce engagement, marketing […]
Monthly Archives: January 2008
Negawatt Power
While solar, wind and biofuels have had plenty of attention, the unsung superhero of clean energy is Negawatts – a term coined by Amory Lovins in a 1989 Green Energy Conference. Two decades later, with a growing corporate interest in efficiency programs, energy efficiency may be this year’s hot trend in cleantech M&A & IPOs. […]
State of Green Business 2008
Trying to understand who’s who, and what’s what in green business? Help has arrived via Joel Makower and the editors over at GreenBiz.com. Their first report into US green business activities is now available at www.StateOfGreenBusiness.com. The report debuts the GreenBiz Index, a set of 20 indicators of green business progress including measures of how […]
Full Frontal Scrutiny
Moving the green agenda forward is difficult enough without misinformation clouding issues. Fortunately there are organizations like Consumer Reports WebWatch and the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD). Full Frontal Scrutiny is a new joint project between these two organizations that aims to shine a light on front groups — organizations that state a particular […]
Plastic Bag Bans
 Oakland is set to follow San Francisco’s ban on plastic bags at retail stores grossing more than $1m. But surprise, surprise (not!) the plastic bag industry is cranky, filing suit over the measure. Countless plastic bags end up in our ocean, harming marine wildlife. Even China, a country that reportedly uses 3 billion plastic […]
Sidestep Recession With a Green For All Stimulus!
There’s an urgent call this morning from the Green For All crew: Bottom line: Congress is about to vote on an $150 Billion economic stimulus package. That’s a LOT of CA$H on the table, and we’ve got a huge opportunity to make sure they don’t F*** it up with the same outdated, failed, and immoral […]
My Other Car is a Bright Green City
Another weighty editorial by WorldChanging’s Alex Steffen: Today’s cars are costly, dangerous and an ecological nightmare. What if the solution to the problems they create, though, has more to do with where we live than what we drive? Alex argues that building compact communities should be one of America’s highest environmental priorities, and says our […]
Don’t Have $6k For A Ticket To TED? Watch Past Presentations Online
One of the hottest event tickets of the year is the annual TED Conference held in Monterey. From its roots in technology, entertainment and design, the content has expanded to include science, business, the arts and the global issues facing our world. Over four days, 50 speakers each take an 18-minute slot, and there are […]
February Events
 Here are some events to get you (me!) out from behind the computer: Boston – Feb 2-3 – Going Green Expo Pasadena – Feb 5-7 – The Art Center Summit: Systems, Cities & Sustainable Mobility San Francisco – Feb 8-9 – Engineers for a Sustainable World San Francisco – Feb 25-27 – Cleantech Forum […]
Green-Collar Jobs For People AND Planet
I first heard Van Jones present at the Bioneers Conference in 2003. He left a strong impression on me. So I’m very, very happy to see his message getting traction, not least with presidential candidates. In a recent post on Grist, Van Jones argues that “green-collar jobs” are a way to simultaneously boost the economy […]