When I lived in San Francisco, I was obsessed with a local lunch chain called Mixt Greens. Analogous to its name, the restaurant offers a variety of organic salad fixings and veggie-heavy sandwiches. I was transfixed by Mixt– ...READ»
I have been thinking for some time about
companies including sustainability credentials in picking who they want as
their customers.
I know, I know, readers who are
sustainability practitioners are thinking now that they ...READ»
Last week, FastCompany’s Ariel Schwartz wrote an article about MillerCoors’ detailed sustainability report, and asked the question “Is MillerCoors the Most Environmentally Responsible Brewing Company?” My immediate ...READ»
At first glance, the Going Green Film Festival, which claims to be the first film fest to focus solely on green filmmaking, seems reasonable. Films can be submitted only through the festival's Web site in three categories: Green ...READ»
The saying, “You can’t BS a BSer” is a reality to me. My evolution from a wide-eyed journalism student to a PR “flack” has given me a little bit of an edge when it comes to the world of marketing gobbledygook. I ...READ»
T. Boone Pickens has dropped his much-ballyhooed plan, chronicled in our pages, to build the world's largest wind farm, in favor of a handful of smaller wind farms scattered around the Midwest.
He cites many of the same factors that ...READ»
The Omega Center for Sustainable Living is designed to make a LEED Gold structure look like a Superfund site. The $3.2 million Rhinebeck, New York, structure, which opens in July, will be the nation's first certified "living ...READ»
Via NPR's Planet Money blog, a savvy reader puts together his own personal stimulus package by becoming part of the microgrid:
Clay from Maryland writes:
I think did everything right. (and I'm pretty lucky) I ...READ»
Small-scale, local power--the microgrid--is a big part of the path to sustainable energy (for more detail, read Why the Microgrid Could Be the Answer to Our Energy Crisis in the July/August issue). With today's rates and rebates, ...READ»
Want to make a REAL impact on carbon footprint, as well as put money back in the pockets of those suffering in this troubled economy (or perhaps those who never participated in the economic boom in the first place)?
I got an e-mail ...READ»
Next Friday marks the official launch of Open Green Map, a series of interactive Google maps that chart natural, cultural, and green living sites around the world. The maps are already available in preview mode, with 4,000 sites and ...READ»
In the May issue I wrote about how the UC Davis Energy Efficiency Center is making efficiency sexy as an investment to Silicon Valley VCs and big companies alike. Now The New York Times has caught on, reporting that Sequoia ...READ»
In January, we reported on the 10 green jobs poised to carry us through the next decade. Five months later, the demand for those jobs is still growing strong--President Obama recently pledged $500 million for environmental job ...READ»
I am often asked how long it took to build our solar installation in El Segundo
The
installation has approaching 3000 modules, a combination of a raised
tracking system over the parking lot and fixed ...READ»
This year's seven winners of the $150,000 Goldman Environmental Prize (AKA the Green Nobel), given to grassroots leaders that take on government and corporate interests to improve their communities, are a motley crew.
They ...READ»
Cisco CEO John Chambers is "healthily paranoid," he told the BBC today. Maybe that's why he's planning to spread sci-fi, panopticon-esque vigilance across entire cities and even ecosystems, in a collaboration with NASA ...READ»
In what must rank as the mother of all unintended consequences, and in a finding certain to have effects on international policy, NASA scientists have found that a decrease in airborne sulfates--dirty smokestack particles ...READ»
What if you could diagnose an ear infection with your cell phone? That might be possible thanks to an innovation from University of California, Berkeley professor Daniel Fletcher. The professor's "Cellscope: Telemicroscopy for ...READ»
Instead of waiting (and paying) for giant solar farms and mega-scale transmission lines to be built, what if you could start generating your own clean energy tomorrow, for 60 percent below retail prices?READ»
The president of Samsung’s consumer electronics division has a curious recipe for getting through the recession: buy a TV.
It costs less than a beach vacation, he says, and with Samsung’s new line of LCD HDTVs that use ...READ»
Carbon cap-and-trade efforts are becoming one long chain of unintended consequences. To whit: Greenpeace released a report arguing that allowing official trade in carbon credits representing forest preservation would crash the price ...READ»
TRU Organic Spirits is putting the friendly back in environmentally friendly. Not only are its lemon- and vanilla-infused vodkas and their aromatic gin completely certified USDA organic, but the
Monrovia, California-based ...READ»
