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CHANGE FOR THE BETTER – What is good for our planet is good for business

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Does “Green” Sell?

It is hard to see a direct con­nec­tion between sales suc­cess and “green­ness” of a com­pany. Low ranked com­pa­nies in Greenpeace’s “Guide to greener elec­tron­ics” are def­i­nitely sell­ing well, as do top ranked Nokia, Sam­sung or HP.

Clean Tech In California

Cal­i­for­nia is a power house in clean tech inno­va­tion and exe­cu­tion. Lot’s of ven­ture cap­i­tal flows into clean tech com­pa­nies, a report released by Next10 reveals.

When Disaster Hits Home

The San Bruno explo­sion and fire hit home way too close, and trig­gered thoughts about risks we are appar­ently will­ing to take to just avoid change. Will we wait to switch away from fos­sil fuels until it is too late?

Squandered Opportunities — How Not To Manage Public Land For Renewable Energy

No renew­able energy is gen­er­ated when the Fed­eral Bureau of Land Man­age­ment “man­ages” sites to gen­er­ate renew­able energy on pub­lic land. And Gold­man Sax seems to be in the non-generating busi­ness — why?

When We Measure The Wrong Things

GDP is a poor met­ric for eval­u­at­ing invest­ments to increase effi­ciency. Every­thing else equal, more effi­ciency means that GDP is reduced. This is totally con­trary to any lean man­age­ment approach.