photo: EDF In my new Green State column on Grist, I catch up with the Climate Corps, a group of green MBA students sponsored by the Environmental Defense Fund. The Climate Corps recently finished 10-week internships with Fortune 500 companies, saving them an estimated $54 million through energy efficiency measures the students identified: Back in [...]
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Green MBAs’ return on investment
Posted in corporate green, corporate sustainability, energy efficiency, Environmental Defense, tagged Climate Corps, Environmental Defense Fund, Fortune 500, Green MBAs on October 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ex-Sierra Club chief: Take the environment out of sustainability
Posted in corporate green, corporate sustainability, tagged "Strategy for Sustainability: A Business Manifesto, Adam Werbach, Saatchi & Saatchi S, Sierra Club, sustainability on August 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »
My latest Green State column on Grist is an interview with Adam Werbach about his new book, Strategy for Sustainability: Adam Werbach’s career is something of a lodestar for the trajectory of the 21st century American environmental movement. A student activist tutored at the knee of the Archdruid himself, the legendary David Brower, Werbach was [...]
IBM charges into the battery business
Posted in alternative energy, corporate green, corporate sustainability, electric cars, energy, energy efficiency, environment, green buildings, green cars, green computing, IBM, water tech, tagged electric cars, Green Sigma, IBM, lithium air batteries on June 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
While the U.S. Department of Energy on Tuesday issued nearly $8 billion in loans to Ford (F), Nissan and Tesla Motors to manufacture electric cars and batteries, IBM unveiled an initiative to develop a next-generation battery technology that would allow those vehicles to travel 400 miles or more on a charge. Big Blue will investigate [...]
Corporate green: Mining giant saves rare wombat
Posted in Australia, corporate green, endangered species, enviro capitalism, green marketing, tagged corporate green, endangered species, northern hairy-nosed wombat, Xstrata on March 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
photo: Alan Horsup, Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service In the ultimate in green corporate branding, Swiss mining conglomerate Xstrata is spending millions of dollars to save one of the world’s most imperiled large mammals, Australia’s northern hairy-nosed wombat. It’s the first time a corporation has agreed to finance the recovery of an endangered species, and [...]
AT&T to put largest green car fleet on road
Posted in alternative energy, corporate green, corporate sustainability, electric cars, green cars, tagged alternative fuel vehicles, AT&T, CNG, electric hybrids on March 11, 2009 | 15 Comments »
AT&T said Wednesday that over the next decade it will replace 15,000 vehicles, or about 20% of its fleet, with cars and trucks powered by compressed natural gas, electricity and other alternative fuels. “AT&T is making the largest-ever commitment by any U.S. company to purchase alternative fuel vehicles,” AT&T chief executive Randall Stephenson said Wednesday [...]
Bill Clinton to speak at Fortune Brainstorm Green
Posted in climate change, corporate green, corporate sustainability, energy, energy efficiency, enviro capitalism, enviro startups, Environmental Defense, global warming, green policy, green startups, IBM, Natural Resources Defense Council, PG&E, tagged Bill Clinton, Brainstorm Green, Earth Day on March 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Another reason Green Wombat will be spending Earth Day in Southern California this year: Former President Bill Clinton will deliver the keynote speech at Fortune Magazine’s Brainstorm Green conference on April 22. Clinton will be joining a gathering of business and environmental leaders, including Ford (F) executive chairman Bill Ford, PG&E (PCG) chief executive Peter [...]
PG&E chief: We’ll be solar’s ‘green knight’
Posted in alternative energy, climate change, corporate green, environment, First Solar, green financing, green startups, green tech, investment tax credit, MMA Renewable Ventures, PG&E, renewable energy, solar energy, solar power plants, Southern California Edison, SunPower, Suntech, tagged PG&E, photovoltaic solar, solar energy, solar power plants on February 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
photo: Optisolar SAN FRANCISCO — With the financial crisis dimming solar’s prospects to become a significant source of renewable energy, utility giant PG&E on Tuesday said it will spend $1.4 billion over five years to install 250 megawatts’ worth of photovoltaic panels in California while contracting with private developers for another 250 megawatts. PG&E chief [...]
IBM to build world’s first national smart utility grid
Posted in alternative energy, Better Place, climate change, corporate green, enviro capitalism, environment, global warming, green grid, green policy, IBM, smart grid, the green economy, water tech, tagged climate change, global warming, green grid, IBM, Malta, smart grid, smarter water systems on February 4, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Photo: Visit Malta The Mediterranean island nation of Malta on Wednesday unveiled a deal with IBM to build a “smart utility” system that will digitize the country’s electricity grid and water system. Granted, Malta is a microstate with a population of 403,500 (smaller than Sacramento; bigger than Iceland). But the world — and utility infrastructure [...]
Green cement
Posted in Acciona, climate change, corporate green, corporate sustainability, energy, environment, global warming, wind power, tagged Acciona, cement, CEMEX, global warming, wind power on January 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
photo: CEMEX The cement industry’s contribution to global warming is pretty concrete – it’s responsible for 5% of greenhouse gas emissions, fueled by demand from the rapidly industrializing economies of China and India. Now CEMEX, the Mexican building materials giant, has taken steps to green up its operation. Not by changing the way it makes [...]
A smart energy grid inside your home
Posted in climate change, corporate green, energy, energy efficiency, enviro startups, environment, global warming, green buildings, green startups, green tech, PG&E, tagged Reliant Energy, smart energy systems, smart grid, smart meters, Tendril on November 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In case you missed it, this Green Wombat story appears in the current issue of Fortune. A house that thinks The high-tech networks that Reliant Energy is installing in the homes of its 1.8 million customers will help them save electricity. By Todd Woody, senior editor (Fortune Magazine) — Inside a white-brick house nestled in [...]
