Business

The buzz on green jobs, greener companies, and the economy

A Crawl to Arms

Seventh Generation launches anti-toxics campaign with wee gimmick 6
Posted 2 days, 19 hours ago by Katharine Wroth
Feel like making babies? Now you can do it with the push of a button, by joining the Million Baby Crawl to support chemical policy reform. Read More
Fashion for the Forests

Gucci Group commits to saving Indonesia’s rainforests 1
Posted 4 days, 19 hours ago by Margaret Swink
There’s a new fashion trend this fall: saving rainforests and preserving a livable climate. Read More
Mountain climbing for CEOs

Green-biz pioneer Ray Anderson says sustainability literally pays for itself 7
Posted 2 weeks, 5 days ago by Lisa Hymas
Ray Anderson set out to make his business sustainable long before green was the flavor of the month. Reading Paul Hawken's The Ecology of Commerce in 1994 literally changed his life, inspiring him to overhaul his carpet company, Interface, and aim for zero environmental impact. Now, with his new book Confessions of a Radical Industrialist, he wants to spur other business leaders to "climb Mount Sustainability." Read More

More Business

Another coal plant bites the dust 1
Posted 1 day, 19 hours ago by Bruce Nilles
Minnesota and South Dakota residents stopped a coal-fired power plant project and prevented about 4.7 million tons of CO2, or the equivalent of the pollution from roughly 670,000 cars, from entering the atmosphere every year. Read More
More clunker debunkers

Cash for Clunkers brought us ... more clunkers! 11
Posted 2 days, 17 hours ago by Jonathan Hiskes
So how did Cash for Clunkers work out from an environmental standpoint? Don't ask. The most common deals swapped old pickup trucks for new pickup trucks that got only marginally better gas mileage. Read More
weasel in sheep's clothing

If you can’t beat ‘em, cheat ‘em 2
Posted 5 days, 16 hours ago by Tom Laskawy
Issue 2, on Ohio's ballot, is the livestock industry’s attempt to head off restrictions on their worst practices, such as tail docking, battery cages, and gestation crates Read More
technically good ideas

Cleantech Open winners get it done quick and cheap 0
Posted 1 week, 3 days ago by Todd Woody
PET shingles, DIY solar arrays, smart thermostats. This year's Cleantech winners focus on getting products to market as fast and economically as they can. Read More
How the green economy can help low income women 0
Posted 2 weeks, 1 day ago by Judy Patrick, Shelley A. Davis
With the emergence of a green jobs sector, America has the opportunity to advance women's economic security in a bigger and better way than ever before, providing low-income women with a rare chance to get in on the ground floor of a growth industry and learn the skills to compete for stable, higher-paying jobs. Read More
Nothing like a good profit motive to accelerate public policy

Performance anxiety 0
Posted 2 weeks, 3 days ago by TerryTamminen
It’s not just the ads showing a baby-boomer couple sitting in matching bathtubs on a beach at sunset where you can find performance anxiety these days. Try looking in the hardware aisle and at the gas station. Read More
A new direction on research at the USDA? 4
Posted 3 weeks, 2 days ago by Paula Crossfield
Paula Crossfield interviews some experts (more Pollan!) on what we need to know about agriculture. Read More
Japanese airline asks fliers to flush first to save fuel 0
Posted 3 weeks, 3 days ago by Agence France-Presse
A Japanese airline is taking its weight-saving efforts to new heights, asking passengers on some of its flights to visit the restroom before flying. Read More
Clean tech reality check

Paging Dr. Chu, venture capitalist 2
Posted 3 weeks, 4 days ago by Todd Woody
Despite all the entrepreneurial buzz around clean energy companies, it's going to take very deep pockets to get projects online at utility scale. That's why Energy Secretary Steven Chu may be the industry's most important venture capitalist. Read More
A FARMER SPEAKS

Richard Wiswall on the business of organic farming 0
Posted 1 month ago by Makenna Goodman
Contrary to popular belief, organic farmers can make a living. Makenna Goodman talks to organic farmer Richard Wiswall, whose new manifesto The Organic Farmer's Business Handbook: A Complete Guide to Managing Finances, Crops, and Staff -- and Making a Profit, is a road map for both farming, and financial success. Read More
Open for Business

Cleantech Open has $100,000 for a green startup idea 0
Posted 1 month ago by Jonathan Hiskes
The Cleantech Open has helped more than 100 startup companies find their footing since it launched in California three years ago. Now it's expanding in some interesting ways. Competitors in Cleantech's new "ideas competition" stand to win $100,000 in support and advice from business experts. Read More
Over a barrel

Exploring the extreme frontiers of oil drilling 2
Posted 1 month ago by Amanda Little
To witness firsthand the world’s most extreme drilling territory -- the Mount Everest of oil frontiers -- Amanda Little took a 175-mile helicopter trip to Chevron's "Cajun Express" oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. "I found the whole enterprise of deep-sea drilling doggedly ambitious, but also seemingly desperate—like an addict forcing a syringe into the earth’s innermost veins," she writes. Of course, the director of Chevron’s offshore drilling divisions sees it differently,… Read More
SolarCity makes electric cars an even smarter investment 19
Posted 1 month ago by Todd Woody
At Governator’s climate party, EPA chief aims to calm small business worries 1
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago by Janet Wilson
Corporations call off the old green battle, but Chamber of Commerce soldiers on [UPDATED] 4
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago by Jonathan Hiskes
For Khosla, clean tech is all about scale 0
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago by Todd Woody
The perfect market fallacy 9
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago by Sean Casten
The clean-energy investment agenda 6
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago by John Podesta
Inside Newsweek’s new green corporate rankings 3
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago by Joel Makower
Ford goes Hollywood to tout electric cred 3
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago by Jeremy Hart
VW L1 hybrid: “most efficient car in the world” 0
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
China is leaving the U.S. in the dust as it surges ahead on clean energy 14
Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago by Terry Tamminen