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 […]
Author Archives: David Fox
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 That’s a LOT of CA$H on the table, and we’ve got a huge opportunity to make sure they don’t F*** it up with the same outdated, failed, and immoral […]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 […]
Re-Designing the Industrial System
In an extended Industry Week interview Interface, Inc. founder and chairman Ray Anderson calls for “…a vast, ethically driven, re-design of the industrial system, triggered by an equally vast mind-shift.” Interface is one of the leading commercial exponents of the emerging science of biomimicry. Take a few minutes to watch Anderson’s interview in The Corporation, […]
Don’t Just Be The Change, Mass-Produce It!
Here at Greenr we want to ‘Accelerate the Change”. Over at WorldChanging, founder and editor Alex Steffen says we should be mass producing it: “We need, through brilliant innovations, bold enterprise and political willpower, to make sustainability an obligatory and universal characteristic of our society, not an ethical choice. We need to remake the systems […]
Wal-Mart Chief Offers a Social Manifesto
New York Times reports that Wal-Mart’s chief H. Lee Scott Jr. pledged Wednesday to cut the energy used by many of its products 25 percent and to force the chain’s suppliers to meet stricter ethical standards. “We live in a time when people are losing confidence in the ability of government to solve problems.†Wal-Mart […]