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How Do You Guarantee Land-Based Offsets Are Permanent?
While critics worry the benefits from land use, land use change, and forestry offsets may one day be reversed, various trading programs have tried to address permanence risks with different approaches -- with mixed results.
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A Web-Based Tool to Follow the Stimulus Dollars
From retrofits to road projects, the Onvia website recovery.org tracks stimulus spending, enabling businesses to scout for opportunities in government contracts and taxpayers to see where the money is going and how many new jobs are expected.
(0)Climate Corps: Demystifying Energy Bills to Save Companies Money
Deciphering corporate utility bills presents a challenge for the uninitiated, but understanding the rate structure will offer clues to how much companies can save through energy efficiency.
(0)The 'Gigaton Throwdown' and the Big Hairy Audacious Question
What would it take to aggressively scale up clean energy to have a major impact on jobs, energy independence and climate change over the next 10 years? The Gigaton Throwdown report asks just that -- and offers answer to the question.
(0)Wal-Mart's Big Problem: Climate Change
There's a fundamental problem facing Wal-Mart and the rest of corporate America: How does a company get bigger without increasing its environmental footprint?
(1)Tesla's $465M Loan to Speed Development of All-Electric Sedan
Tesla’s plans to build a $57,400 all-electric sedan will move forward now that the company has secured $465 million in federal loans. Tesla, along with Ford Motor Co. and Nissan North America, became the first recipients of a $25 billion federal loan program aimed at helping automakers develop and produce more fuel-efficient vehicles. The three will receive a combined $8 billion in loans.
(0)S.F. Mayor Signs First Mandatory Composting Law in U.S.
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom signs one of the nation's more stringent municipal recycling measures into law today. Provisions in the new ordinance make it mandatory for businesses and residents to compost food scraps -- the first requirement of its kind in the U.S.
(0)Why the Tech Industry Needs Real Climate Leadership
In this response to an earlier blog post by editor Preston Gralla, the coordinator of Greenpeace's Cool IT Challenge explains how the campaign is trying to push companies on the policy front to influence the global climate debate for the better.
(0)U.S. Climate Legislation Won't Regulate Cow Burps
Methane from cows and pigs won't be regulated under proposed legislation aimed at limiting U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. Even though the EPA has said it has no plans to regulate the gas, worries over the idea of a "cow tax" prompted farm groups to lobby against any inclusion of animal burps in the climate change bill.
(2)The Congressmen from Coal
In the rhetorical fight around the global warming bill, it's rare to see the special interests' influence as nakedly revealed as they recently were in a presentation from the Rural American Solutions Group.
(0)Counting Carbon at Madison Square Garden
Deutsche Bank and MIT unveiled the world's first scientifically valid, real-time display of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere.
(0)Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid. Now Do Something About Climate Change.
On Tuesday, the Obama Administration released a study analyzing the potential impact of climate change in the United States. It read like the Ten Plagues at my family's annual seder ...
(1)The Downside of Mexico's Wind Power Boom
El Viento es Malo? Clean Wind Energy May Spread 'Dirty Business' in Mexico
(0)Will Coal Finally Get the Chance to Clean up its Act?
The Department of Energy announced its support for the first commercial-scale carbon capture and sequestration power plant, but will it live up to the much-hyped notion of "clean coal"?
(0)What Does a Very Low Carbon Utility Look Like?
Most utilities today are rightly concerned about how they're going to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to comply with new energy and climate legislation, while still reliably meeting growing demands for electricity.
(2)On the Ground Realities (and Solutions) for Truck Companies Looking to Go Green
Simply adopting already-existing technologies can save the U.S. trucking industry $7.6 billion dollars per year and cut its fuel use by one-half or more.
(0)Electric Vehicles May Fail to Achieve Mass Adoption Without Support
Automakers are increasingly looking to achieve efficiency gains by developing plug-in electric vehicles. But despite significant support from the Obama administration, electric vehicles are unlikely to grow beyond a minuscule portion of the country's fleets unless city and regional leaders get on board as well.
(0)Chevron and Sierra Club: Strange Bedfellows?
The dialog Wednesday night between Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope and Chevron CEO Dave O'Reilly was a major draw, attracting what seemed to be half of San Francisco to the Commonwealth Club to witness the exchange. So what’s the deal? Are the former combatants now bedfellows?
(0)Insurers Need to Address Climate Change By Building Windmills, Not Walls
No industry stands to gain or lose more from climate change than the insurance industry. Yet it has dragged its heels in response when it should be adapting to the changing winds by reducing its impacts, educating its clients, employees and the public, and offering its input to policymakers drafting climate change regulations.
(1)Lamborghini Jumps on the Green Wagon with Hybrid Sports Car
As part of an overall sustainability program, the high-end, low-quantity sports car manufacturer is bringing renewable energy to its factory, setting emissions-reductions goals, and developing a hybrid drivetrain for its iconic vehicles.
(1)Three Secrets to Driving Down Your Fleet Emissions
Even in these tough economic times, there are ways companies can boost their fleets' efficiency without resorting to snake-oil technologies: changing driver behavior can have the biggest impacts of all.
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