07.09.09

Looking back from 2055 to see how climate crisis was averted

At Tuesday’s summit on sustainability (see the summary in our last post), Bill Becker, of the Climate Action Project, pointed me towards his group’s site which has aggregated some effective web-based visualization tools…

gund

07.08.09

Solutions: Gund Institute/7th Gen summit on sustainability

This is one post I couldn’t wait to write- a brief summary of yesterday’s start to Burlington, Vermont’s summit on sustainability, organized by Bob Costanza of the University of Vermont’s Gund Institute for Ecological

07.07.09

Greenpeace’s List of Greenest Electronics

Greenpeace has released its Guide to Greener Electronics, in which the environmental group “ranks the 17 top manufacturers of personal computers, mobile phones, TV’s and games consoles according to their policies on toxic chemicals,…

PUMA and Pepsi

07.06.09

Fortune: GM’s PUMA Is Dumbest Biz Decision of Year

Fortune has put out its list of the “Dumbest Moments in Business” for 2009- midyear edition, anyway- and the top spot goes to General Motors. GM’s strange partnership with Segway produced a…

Green July 4th

07.03.09

Tips For A Green July 4th

Being green around the holidays can be tricky. Many of our best rituals (Thanksgiving, July 4th, Labor Day, Super Bowl Sunday…) rely heavily on consumption (and, by extension, produce a ton of waste). So, for…

Bud

07.02.09

This Bud’s For All of Us: biogas from landfill powers brewery

The Anheuser-Busch brewery in Houston, TX will have 55% of it energy needs met from landfill biogas. It’s a big move for the country’s leading brewer- AB holds a 49.2%…

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