Mark Pawlosky’s Posts

• Corporate Green

  A review of Joel Makower's Strategies for the Green Economy 5

  Posted 1 year ago

  If there were an M.B.A. school for green executives, Joel Makower undoubtedly would be its dean, historian, and booster-in-chief.

  

  Joel Makower.

  During a 20-year career, Makower has chronicled the rise of the green movement in corporate America through books, hundreds of stories, and countless speeches. Along the way, he has carved out a mini green business empire for himself. He is executive editor and chairman of Greener World Media, which owns Greenbiz.com, a website that reports on the burgeoning industry. He also has marketing ties to… Read More

• Paved With Good Intentions

  Green, Inc. author says big environmental groups have sold out to big business 4

  Posted 1 year, 1 month ago

  For my money, there's nothing more delicious than a book that lays bare the rot of a corrupted industry from an insider's perspective. In the hands of a skilled observer, the subject can spring to life. Liar's Poker, Michael Lewis's hilariously disturbing account of Wall Street's investment-banking industry in the late 1980s, comes to mind.

  

  Green, Inc., by Christine MacDonald.

  Lewis's book traces its lineage to Mark Singer's Funny Money, a masterpiece of nonfiction that exposed the double-dealing and corruption that led to the collapse of the savings and loan… Read More

• A new marketplace for trading GHG permits

  A chat with Philip V. Adams of the World Green Exchange auction system 2

  Posted 1 year, 8 months ago

  Last week, World Energy Exchange, an online energy trading platform, officially launched a new marketplace for renewable-energy certificates and greenhouse-gas permits. The World Green Exchange employs an auction system -- think eBay -- to bring buyers and sellers together. In theory, auctions create a more transparent marketplace and drive out cost inefficiencies by directly connecting the buyer and seller and removing the middleman.

  

  Philip V. Adams.

  We caught up with World Energy President and COO Philip… Read More

• A trillion here, a trillion there

  Another day, another trillion dollars for the clean-tech industry 2

  Posted 1 year, 9 months ago

  It seems that a day doesn't slip by without someone raising the stakes in the alternative-energy poker game.

  The most recent bombshell wager: Cambridge Energy Research Associates report that alternative energy investments will -- hold on to your hats! -- top $7 trillion by 2030. That's an audacious number by any measure, and normally it would be enough to suck the oxygen right out of a convention of wind-farm enthusiasts. But that's not the half of it. The most startling aspect of the report is that it barely raised a ripple in the investment community.

  And why should… Read More

• Whither the alternative energy market?

  Q&A with Eric Janszen on whether an alt-energy bubble is in the making 25

  Posted 1 year, 9 months ago

  

  Eric Janszen

  Eric Janszen, the founder and president of iTulip.com, recently argued in Harper's Magazine that the alternative energy segment is a prime candidate for a massive asset bubble, potentially dwarfing both the dot-com and housing bubbles. I wrote about Janszen's prediction last week. This week, Janszen joins us for a question-and-answer follow-up.

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