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Will it become a check-the-box activity or a disruptive force? The answer is up for grabs.
by Joel Makower
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In this week's episode, why mayors are appointing chief resilience officers, cap-and-trade makes a comeback and biomimicry turns 20.
by Joel Makower
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L. Hunter Lovins dishes on her new book and explains why using resources in a sustainable way isn't only the right thing for businesses to do, it may also be the most profitable business strategy they have in their arsenals.
by Joel Makower
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There’s a lot to be said for viewing the year just passed through the rear-view window, from runaway oil wells to crashing hybrids to political stalemate over climate change. Still, there’s much to be hopeful about. Here are 10 stories we published that represent significant, promising developments.<o p=''></o>
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by Joel Makower
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Consider: On a day when of America’s most iconic companies has come back to life as a public company after going through a bankruptcy and government bailout, its first gesture is an environmental one.
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by Joel Makower
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Japan's business leaders are focused on cutting emissions, though they have about the same level of a roadmap as Americans; their neighbor to the southwest, however, has quickly moved into the spotlight as a challenger, and potentially an economic threat.
by Joel Makower
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While individual car buyers stayed out of showrooms with disastrous results, corporate and institutional buyers proved a bright green spot for the industry with increased purchases of hybrid-electric, diesel, biodiesel, electric and other so-called alternative-fueled vehicles.
by Joel Makower
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Friday was dubbed 'Business Day' here in Copenhagen — a chance for the corporate community to come together to discuss their considerable role in addressing climate change.
by Joel Makower
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As 2009 sputters to an end, it's perhaps unsurprising that we're in the midst of a torrent of studies and findings that all offer some roadmap of where to go from here.
by Joel Makower
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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.
by Joel Makower
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Can the company that tamed financial accounting do the same for carbon accounting?
by Joel Makower
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(Episode 78): Auden Schendler, author of the new book "Getting Green Done," talks to Joel Makower about the barriers to green success that every company faces, why climate change is the only problem we face, and how telling stories of failures is the way to succeed.
by Joel Makower
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The year 2008 will likely be looked back upon as a time when carbon emissions became core to mainstream business. Of course, companies had been warming to the realities of climate change for years, with many firms making significant commitments, but for whatever reason, things heated up in 2008, revealing a deeper truth: Carbon is now, and probably forever, part of the corporate landscape.
by Joel Makower
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Yesterday’s New York Times 'Week in Review' section featured two unconnected but noteworthy essays that just might signal an opening for Team Obama. The subject was carbon taxes.
by Joel Makower
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The latest annual edition of Clean Energy Trends has just been published. My colleagues and I at Clean Edge have identified five key trends affecting clean-energy markets and produced our annual forecast of markets for four clean-energy technologies. And, working with our partners at New Energy Finance, we've analyzed the investment trends of the past year.
by Joel Makower
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On the eve of the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Bali, two new reports show how tantalizingly able we are to reduce our climate footprint -- and how frustratingly far we are from taking the needed steps to do so.
by Joel Makower