This decade was a tipping point for the sustainability movement and this piece, written by Landor Associates' Russ Meyers, looks at the promotion and expansion of green brands.With the beginning of a new decade came new interest in ...READ»
In this post, Landor Associate's Chief Strategy Officer, Russ Meyer's outlines the problems with waste, the need to recycle and early signs of global warming.Despite all the green gains made during the 1980s, throughout most of the ...READ»
In the developing world, a billion people go without clean water. Across the developed world, storms and failing infrastructure threaten to contaminate water supplies. Is there any hope to be found?READ»
In the developing world, a billion people go without clean water. Across the developed world, storms and failing infrastructure threaten to contaminate water supplies. Is there any hope to be found?READ»
Chalk this one up under the "Whhaaat?!" category: Osama bin Laden has just dropped one of his infamous video tapes on Al Jazeera. And amid the usual rhetoric is an absolute gem--he blames the U.S. for climate change.Let's get one ...READ»
After 12 days of heated wrangling, world leaders should emerge from this meeting with a new treaty to combat global warming. Or maybe not: We wouldn't be shocked if U.S. negotiators, spooked by the potential effect of carbon ...READ»
The wine industry is facing its biggest slump in years, yet a small company that exclusively uses TetraPak containers and works only with organic vineyards is thriving.READ»
As the Kyoto Protocol nears its expiration in 2012, the deadline to hammer out new standards for climate change mitigation approaches. U.N. member nations and the parties to the Kyoto Protocol will sit down in Bonn this week to weigh ...READ»
Why small-scale, local power -- the microgrid -- could be the answer to our energy crisis. And why the big utilities are fighting it with all they've got.READ»
After recession nearly wiped out Malmö's industrial base in the 1980s, the city had a chance to start over. It created eco-friendly neighborhoods of transformed tenements and old shipyards.READ»
The capital of the Pacific Northwest is blessed with divine geography, frontier spirit, and an abundance of both artists and geeks. Plus, it's not even that rainy.READ»
The 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) sounds like a contradiction in terms - - conferences are business-like and dull while parties are, well, fun! But COP 15 is actually the formal name of the annual gathering of nations that participate in the UN’s effort to curb climate change and the “party” is about half a year from now in Denmark. Will the US arrive with little more than a tourist map of Copenhagen and some well-worn stories about China being the world’s leading emitter of greenhouse gases (GHGs)?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»
There won’t be too many major decisions made at this week’s UN climate summit, but close observers will be able to hear the conversation shift and watch battle lines being drawn for the new year.READ»
The financial crisis seems overwhelming, with dire warnings that things may still get worse, bailout or not. People are worried about what lies ahead for business, but believe it or not the news is not all bad. There are still ...READ»
Valerie Casey of Ideo is rallying the creative community to the Designers Accord, her version of a Kyoto treaty for designers -- and her peers are signing on in droves. Now comes the hard part.READ»
A coalition of 99 companies is asking political leaders to set targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions and to establish a global carbon market.
Their blueprint for tackling climate change is being handed to Japanese Prime ...READ»
Need an example of head-in-the-sand behavior! June 12, I found out on the radio tonight, was Carbon Belch Day:
Proud of their antisocial tendencies, these yo-yos wanted to be as
environmentally destructive as possible that ...READ»
Meet a steelmaker with a heart of gold, a firm that shows why a "triple bottom line" is good business -- in one of the world's toughest businesses.READ»
Social entrepreneur Dan Morrell is targeting a massive and complex environmental problem: global warming. But his solution is deceptively simple: The way to save the planet is one tree at a time.READ»
