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A new series of articles in Grist drags Walmart over the coals for not being as sustainable as it could be. While the author raises valid points about Walmart's level of action, there is more to the story.
by Marc Gunther
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A new organization formed out of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change aims to address climate change -- like so many others before them, with so little success. But their launch event raised one solid idea: It's time to tax carbon.
by Marc Gunther
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The group's executive director, Mike Brune, explains how the nonprofit is putting Michael Bloomberg's $50 million gift to work, and how Occupy Wall Street and the Keystone XL protests tie in to the shift to clean energy.
by Marc Gunther
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The company that started out by creating rewards for recycling is seeking to become a Internet marketing platform that will reward people for how they shop, do laundry and even commute.
by Marc Gunther
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Nothing anyone has tried has accomplished anything meaningful to prevent climate change. That's why now is the only time to start seriously working on geoengineering.
by Marc Gunther
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Activists from the Rainforest Action Network are targeting The Walt Disney Company for a slack paper-buying policy that allows children's books to be printed from rainforest-destroying pulp.
by Marc Gunther
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<span class='mceItemHidden' spellcheck='false'>This week, I took a tour of <span class='hiddenSpellError'>Masdar City -- the audacious, carbon-neutral, zero-waste $15 to $20-billion planned development rising out of the Arabian desert. Here's the view from the ground.
by Marc Gunther
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Unilever unveiled its 2020 sustainability plan yesterday, and no one can accuse the company of playing small ball. Unilever's Sustainable Living Plan will attempt to do something that will be incredibly hard to achieve: growing a company's sales without growing its environmental footprint.
by Marc Gunther
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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 tell that joke, and it’s as good a way as any to introduce Greenbiz.com’s third annual State of Green Business report.
by Marc Gunther
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Kudos to John Kerry and Lindsey Graham for their <a href='http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/opinion/11kerrygraham.html'>op-ed in Sunday’s Times</a>, which points the way to a breakthrough in the climate change debate that’s desperately needed.
by Marc Gunther
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So now America’s biggest business lobby and late-night comic David Letterman have something in common: They have really, really embarrassed themselves.
by Marc Gunther
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Although some blame for the current failure to pass meaningful climate legislation falls on both sides of the political aisle, as well as with the White House and its appointees, there are some ways to break the partisan deadlock on meaningful action, including funding for clean energies and, yes, funding nuclear power.
by Marc Gunther
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With their neck-and-neck scores in Newsweek's new green rankings, the two shipping companies' ongoing rivalry continues to heat up.
by Marc Gunther
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The president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy discusses his work on Reducing Emissions from Degradation and Deforestation (REDD), a crucial strategy for dealing with climate change and a key element of forthcoming climate policy.
by Marc Gunther
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The vast majority of the U.S. population cares about curbing global warming -- but even those most passionate about the topic are more willing to change shopping habits than advocate for climate change legislation. The author of a new study explains how to succeed in influencing politicians as much as corporate brands.
by Marc Gunther
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Despite dismal economic times, here in Abu Dhabi the mood at the World Future Energy Summit is surprisingly upbeat, in large part because for the business people and government officials here the fundamentals driving the renewable energy sector -- namely, rising demand for power, the threat of climate change and energy security -- are as strong as ever.
by Marc Gunther
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Climate change is 'perhaps the most comprehensive challenge that mankind has ever faced,' declared David Crane, the CEO of NRG Energy, as a group of 26 big companies and five big environmental groups came together on Capitol Hill to offer Congress a blueprint to tackle global warming. It's hard to argue with his assessment. The question is, is the blueprint being put forward by Big Business up to the challenge?
by Marc Gunther
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Since returning from the Beijing Olympics last month, Hank Paulson has been a nonstop crisis manager.
by Marc Gunther