Commentary & Opinion

February 20, 2010 UK Beverage Firm, Swiss Mining Co., Arizona Utility Post Highest Scores Among 100 Companies

Source:CSRWire

KPMG LLP, the U.S. audit, tax and advisory firm discusses how it has achieved a 7 percent reduction of its U.S. carbon footprint while pursuing a green business operations strategy in its second annual KPMG Living Green Report. [more]

February 11, 2010 ‘Greening’ of America could be greater

Source:Edmondsun.com

New York — Who would have thought, 40 years ago, that being “green’ would come to this? For “this,’’ of course, you can substitute the fact that just about everybody and everything wants to be seen as caring about the...

February 10, 2010 NGOs Rush In To Fill the Void

Source:Richard Barr

Government Isn’t Everything… With President Obama’s presidency looking more like it will not be able to pull off cap and trade; any carbon tax; and any meaningful reduction of the kind that we need to make a dent in world wide...[more]

February 9, 2010 .The State of Green Business

Source:Holly Kaufman, The Huffington Post

Thank goodness for the "State of Green Business Forum," the annual roll-out of Greenbiz.com's State of Green Business Report. Unlike the plethora of studies and conferences on how well green business is faring, the "SOGB" is one...

February 8, 2010 Addressing Global Warming: Retrain Coal Workers for Green Jobs

Source:Mary Ellen Harte & John Harte, The Huffington Post

A perfect storm of factors are massing against continued coal burning, and given the catastrophic consequences of current and future climate change, it's coming none too soon. After more than a century of coal mining, the most...

February 3, 2010 The Greening of CFOs: Any Leading Examples?

Source:Triple Pundit

On January 27, 2010 the ground moved underneath our CFOs when the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) instructed publicly held companies to “…consider the effects of global warming and efforts to curb climate change when...

February 1, 2010 Deloitte: Best Practices for Going Green

Source:TriplePundit.com

What do you think of when you hear Deloitte? You might think of a professional services firm or Big Four auditor. Today, the company has also put a big green stake in the ground, both looking internally to green their operations...

January 21, 2010 Greening our cities has untold benefits

Source:Times and Transcript

Towns and municipalities today are under huge constraints when it comes to their budgeting. Obviously we need services for road maintenance, water, sewerage and other necessities, but there are important needs that may not at...

January 19, 2010 Our Choice: A glimpse into Al Gore’s new solution’s based book on climate change

Source:Richard Barr

I am 61 years old. I was 21 in ‘69 as the Jackson Brown song goes. I participated in the first Earth Day. I was a block organizer for a recycling program. I was also a pacifist and virulently anti-war. As I matured I...[more]

January 6, 2010 Listmania: A List of the Top Sustainability Lists at the Turn of the Year/Decade

Source:CSRWire - Bill Baue of Sea Change Media

New years (and decades) spark reflection on things gone by and projection of things to come, and for some strange reason we like to enumerate our past and future successes and failures, blessings and curses, opportunities and...[more]

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