Topic: Nature Conservancy

Energy Sprawl: Will Solar and Wind Farms Become Ghost Malls of Tomorrow?

Have you noticed the rapid proliferation of clean energy projects in the past few years? All those projects take up land. Now a paper from the Nature Conservancy predicts that the Waxman-Markey climate change bill could have the ...READ»

Innovative Giving: A Collection of Charitable Choices

‘Tis the season to be jolly – and generous. But with tightened budgets and less spare time on your hands, doing good unto others may prove particularly difficult this year. To ease any pangs of conscience you may have, Fast ...READ»

Are American Energy Companies Investing in a Bolivian Carbon Offset Scam?

Carbon offsets are often derided as a modern-day form of the Catholic indulgence. Pollute as much as you want, pay for someone else to offset your emissions, and feel good at the end of the day. But polluters might not feel so great ...READ»

Innovative Giving: The Nature Conservancy and (Lil) Green Patch

(Lil) Green Patch enables Facebook users to send plants to one another, and sponsors contribute money to save one square foot of rainforest in Costa Rica for every ten patches given. This is the first in a six-part series on innovative giving.READ»

'Design for a Living World' Preview: 10 Products That Stay True to Their Origins

Can products nurture the people and place that produced them? Ten signature designers taking part in the Design for a Living World exhibition show how it might be done.READ»

7 Anti-Social Facebook Apps

Social networks are about maintaining friendships and fostering new ones, but some of the apps made for them seem bent on doing the opposite. Here are 7 anti-social Facebook apps, and why you might want them anyway.READ»

Ten Best Green Jobs for the Next Decade

Massive investments in clean energy promise to keep farmers, urban planners, and green-tech entrepreneurs in business for the next decade. This guide to sustainability focused career paths will help solar-charge your work life.READ»

• Top Jobs 2009 - Main Page
• The Top Jobs for 2009
• What Should I Do with My Life, Now?

The Carbon Industry's Main Players

Professors dominate the emerging carbon market from finance firms to industry, nonprofits to the World BankREAD»

• Carbon Boom
• The King of Green Investing
• Silicon Valley's Angel Investors

Eddie Bauer's National Park Service

If the concept of a Pepsi-branded playground concerns you, our country's national parks could be next. In a recent article, Bill Berkowitz takes a look at the National Park Service's ongoing budgetary woes -- and early exploration of ...READ»

Guest Post: Xerox - 5 Steps to Sustainability Success

Patricia Calkins is vice president, Environment, Health and Safety at Xerox Corporation. She is responsible for policy and strategy development and strategic implementation of all EH&S and sustainability programs at Xerox ...READ»

What's Next For The Green Economy??

On Oct. 24, 2008, Sustainable Life Media reported that Researchers at Deutsche Bank's Asset Management (DeAM) Division heartily agreed that increased spending on green infrastructure can provide enough economic stimulus to avoid ...READ»

Is Sprint's Biodegradable Phone Really Green?

Bits and pieces of sustainable cell phone manufacturing are slowly coming together. First came the solar-powered phones, and now Sprint and Samsung are unveiling a biodegradable handset that is 80% recyclable and comes with a 40% ...READ»

50 Ways to Green Your Business

Half-a-hundred options for cleaning up your business, from the universal (catch that rainwater!) to the specific (lose the plastic bowls!). Mix, match--join in.READ»

The Big Bamboozle

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How Microsoft Is Priming the Mood of Bing Searches

There is a growing dialogue within the design community around how to drive sustainable behavior change in areas like health and energy. With it has come an increased awareness that often seemingly trivial elements of a ...READ»

• Robert Fabricant's Design4Impact blog

An Innovative, Collaborative Tech Nonprofit to Change the World

This is a story about what can happen when a small group of smart, innovative people take a high tech startup mentality and apply it to the nonprofit world.  In a nutshell, it works.I first became aware of the org when I was ...READ»

Be My Valentine! Winning Partnerships for the Greater Good

Partnerships among nonprofits, and between for-profits and nonprofits, will be among the best innovations that are driven by this tough economy.  The benefits include cost efficiencies, revenue opportunities for nonprofits, more ...READ»

Make Tracks

The forest is speaking to us all of the time, says master tracker Paul Rezendes, and telling us about the wildlife within it. But the only way to get the message is to read the woods.READ»

Ecotrust Stirs Up a New Shade of Green

Spencer Beebe's iconoclastic activists mix environmentalism with economic self-interest to create "conservation-based development."READ»

Can Carbon Credits Slow Global Warming?

Legal limits on greenhouse-gas emissions are coming fast, with a $1 trillion carbon market emerging. At the core: A cadre of young, idealistic Yale forestry grads. But will carbon offsets do anything to slow global warming?READ»

• Green Family Tree
• Silicon Valley's Green Angel Investors
• The King of Green Investing

"I'm Green. Are You?" Are You Up For the Sustainability Challenge?

As Sustainability Moves Forward, Are You In? Or Out?READ»

Social Entrepreneur - Don Harris

Talk about the power of leverage. Don Harris is a savvy lawyer and a creative deal maker whose nonprofit organization has figured out how to help moderate-income people make a down payment on the American dream -- literally.READ»