Marc Gunther

GreenBiz.com Senior Writer Marc Gunther is a longtime journalist and speaker whose focus is business and sustainability. Marc maintains a blog at MarcGunther.com. You can follow him on Twitter @marcGunther.

GreenBiz.com Senior Writer Marc Gunther is a veteran journalist and speaker whose focus is business and sustainability.

Marc was a senior writer at Fortune magazine for 13 years. At Fortune, he wrote cover stories about the greening of Walmart; about BYD, the Chinese electric car company backed by Warren Buffett; about Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and the 2008 financial crisis; and about spirituality in the workplace.

Previously, Marc worked for more than 20 years for newspapers including the Paterson (N.J.) News, Hartford Courant, Detroit News, and Detroit Free Press. He is the author of four books, including "Faith and Fortune: How Compassionate Capitalism is Transforming American Business" (Crown 2004) and is creator and co-chair of Brainstorm Green, Fortune's annual conference on business and the environment.

Marc maintains a blog at MarcGunther.com. You can follow him on Twitter @marcGunther.

Why Green Business is Like Teen Sex
By Marc Gunther, February 05, 2010
Corporate sustainability is like teen sex. Everybody talks about it. Nobody does it very much. And when they do it, they don’t do it very well. Friend and colleague Joel Makower likes to...
'Faith-Based' Economics and the Stimulus Package
By Marc Gunther, February 03, 2010
Did the stimulus package jump-start the economy? Will climate regulation create jobs? Are clean energy subsidies an efficient way to curb pollution? Is healthcare spending worth it? And how...
Small Changes Can Drive Big Impacts in Greening Fleets
By Marc Gunther, February 02, 2010
When Chris McKenna, who manages a fleet of trucks for Poland Spring, learned that the company’s drivers were racking up as much as 1,400 hours a month of idle time, he saw an opportunity to...
GE and Washington: Too cozy?
By Marc Gunther, February 01, 2010
I have been an admirer of General Electric and its CEO, Jeff Immelt ... But I've got a couple of questions that have been nagging at me. First, has GE become overly focused on Washington? Second,...
Siemens' Energy Strategy: Diversify, Diversify, Diversify
By Marc Gunther, January 29, 2010
When it comes to the energy, Siemens Energy doesn't play favorites. It has a stake in the coal, nuclear, gas, wind and solar industries, as well as the smart grid and transmission business ... It'...
The Power of Peer Pressure in Combatting Climate Change ClimateBiz.com
By Marc Gunther, January 19, 2010
We can solve the climate crisis with the right tools -- solar panels, wind turbines, electric car batteries, No. 10 envelopes and smiley faces. What? Envelopes? Smiley faces? ...
Why We Need a Cultural Revolution in Consumption
By Marc Gunther, January 13, 2010
No matter how many environmental wins we achieve, the most important change possible is the one that is hardest for businesses and mainstream environmental groups to embrace: Consuming less is the...
Green China: Friend or Foe?
By Marc Gunther, January 12, 2010
The news is chock full of stories about the widespread greening of China, and although it's great news for the planet, some say it's bad news for the U.S. Is China a competitor or partner, or both...
Detroit's Annus Horribilis: Have Americans Stopped Loving Their Cars?
By Marc Gunther, January 07, 2010
The year 2009 was a terrible year for Detroit, the worst in three decades. Americans bought 10.4 million cars -- 21 percent fewer than in 2008 and a whopping 40 percent fewer than the 17 million...
Why Stewart Brand's New Book is a Must-Read
By Marc Gunther, January 05, 2010
Praise for the book Whole Earth Discipline is remarkable since the book argues that we need nuclear power to combat global warming, we need biotechnology to feed the world and that we need to take...

Trying To Turn Coke Green
By Marc Gunther, April 17, 2008
CEO Neville Isdell is an environmentalist, but making The Coca-Cola Co. sustainable is harder than it looks. ...

My Five New Year’s Wishes
By Marc Gunther, January 03, 2010
Each wish creates an incentive for companies to do business better. ...
My Favorite Green Technology
By Marc Gunther, December 24, 2009
No offense to those working hard to bring wind, solar or geothermal energy to scale, or to people who are jazzed about energy efficiency, but Marc Gunther is going to end his blogging for 2009 by...
How to Unchop a Tree ClimateBiz.com
By Marc Gunther, December 18, 2009
We need to find more creative ways to communicate about the climate crisis. An example is the beautiful three-minute film from Maya Lin, which made its debut at a gala on behalf of REDD organized...
Coca-Coca, Carbon Reduction, Copenhagen -- and Polar Bears ClimateBiz.com
By Marc Gunther, December 17, 2009
That's Muhtar Kent, the CEO of Coca-Cola, on the right. On the left is a polar bear. I caught up with Muhtar Kent at COP15, where he was one of a few Fortune 500 CEOs to show up in an effort to...
COP15: I went all the way to Denmark and … ClimateBiz.com
By Marc Gunther, December 17, 2009
... all I got was this lousy T-shirt. ...
A Plan to Wean Countries Off Oil, for $40 per Car ClimateBiz.com
By Marc Gunther, December 16, 2009
Better Place CEO Shai Agassi is aiming high in his goals to bring affordable, zero-emission, plug-in electric vehicles to the masses; although skeptics think it's more talk than action, there...
COP15: The Answer is Blowin' in the Wind ClimateBiz.com
By Marc Gunther, December 14, 2009
The fact that the U.S. has yet to create a single offshore wind farm (while Denmark generates 20 percent of its energy from wind) represents a huge missed opportunity, but one that could easily be...
Low-Carbon Copenhagen ClimateBiz.com
By Marc Gunther, December 11, 2009
Just arrived in Copenhagen, and it was immediately evident why annual...
The Technology that Could Save the Planet ClimateBiz.com
By Marc Gunther, December 11, 2009
What if the technology we need to curb climate change turns out to be not a solar panel, smart grid or electric car battery but social media powered by cellphones, laptops and online networks like...
An (Almost) Affordable Electric Car
By Marc Gunther, December 09, 2009
The other day, I took a spin around your nation’s capital in what is being touted as the first affordable electric car that will find its way onto America’s roads: It’s the Coda...

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Best Buy: An Emerging Green Giant
By Marc Gunther, December 03, 2009
The big-box retailer has adopted a strategy of helping its customers buy the greenest products possible, but has also quietly and steadily become the country's largest recycler of discarded...
Annie Leonard's Sharp Critique of Cap and Trade ClimateBiz.com
By Marc Gunther, December 02, 2009
Annie Leonard, the creator of "The Story of Stuff," hones in on cap-and-trade strategies with a pointed critique of the system that's expected to be a focal point of the global climate...
Coca-Cola's Quest for the Perfect Bottle Starts with Plants
By Marc Gunther, December 01, 2009
The Coca-Cola Company's vision of developing a 100 percent renewably sourced, carbon-neutral container has led to its design of the PlantBottle, a recyclable PET vessel that's 30 percent sourced...

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