Stories from Hannah Miller
Corporate Responsibility
Divestor Asks: Is the Carbon Bubble a Form of Fraud?
At its most basic definition, securities fraud means getting investment in a project or company via the use of false […]
May 12, 2015
Energy
Colorado's Solar-Friendly Communities Go National
The thousands of solar installers in Colorado – as in many other states – have a hard time developing energy […]
April 8, 2015
Corporate Responsibility
Fracking Opponents Get Creative in Their Tactics
Efforts to stop the march of fracking rigs have gained the most traction at the local level. Voters and legislators […]
March 20, 2015
Energy
Renewables Mandate in Colorado Survives Rollback Attempt
On Monday, the Colorado state legislature voted down a challenge to the state’s successful and popular Renewable Energy Standard, originally […]
March 5, 2015
Energy
Agriculture Drones Help Farmers Reduce Resource Use
Boulder, Colorado-based Agribotix is helping farmers save money and conserve water and resources in a new way: by flying drones over […]
February 19, 2015
Corporate Responsibility
Will Denver Allow Fracking in its City Limits?
After years of local battles across the state of Colorado, the fracking debate is about to come home to roost. […]
February 11, 2015
Energy
A Powerful Tool for Getting Insight into State Energy Policy
About 80 percent of energy regulation goes on at the state level, estimates Jeff Lyng, senior policy analyst at the […]
January 22, 2015
Finance
Apply for NREL's Renewable Energy Leadership Academy
The Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado, is currently accepting applications for its 2015 National Executive […]
December 26, 2014
Energy
Data Center Renewables Starting to Have a Ripple Effect
Last year, in its ongoing campaign to get Amazon to commit to renewable energy, Greenpeace gave out mugs one Tuesday at […]
December 11, 2014
Latino Cultures Have a "Green" Legacy, Says Festival Founder
The environmental movement has long-struggled to diversify. Meanwhile, rapid demographic changes make the need for broader engagement all the more imperative. […]
December 4, 2014
Energy
U.N. Association Representative: Climate Change and War Are Linked
During the Cold War, when Zuza Bohley was growing up in East Germany, being a pacifist was a crime. It […]
November 19, 2014
Technology
'Both Sides of the Meter' at Colorado Climate Summit
Colorado is a hotspot for energy innovation: The city of Fort Collins is pushing the envelope with a net-zero energy […]
November 18, 2014
Technology
Energy Efficiency's Next Great Leap: Predicting the Weather
A small metal box in the basement of the InterContinental Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco is thinking about the weather. And […]
November 19, 2012
Corporate Responsibility
PulpWorks: Recycled Paper Will Replace Toxic PVC in Packaging
When it comes to sustainability, consumers care about packaging. They can’t not. It’s the most in-your-face waste in the manufacturing […]
November 9, 2012
Finance
What Worker Cooperatives Actually Look Like
Factories. Industrial fabrication. Greenhouse farming. Solar generation plants. Banks. Whatever you might imagine worker-owned businesses to look like, Melissa Young […]
November 9, 2012
Finance
Racial Inclusion Doesn't Happen if Organizations Ignore it
“Civilization, in a sense, can be reduced to the word ‘welcome.’” – Stanley Crouch In the Harvard Business Review a […]
November 1, 2012
Corporate Responsibility
GOOD Now Certified as a B Corp., Bolstering the Network
After years of being an active promoter of the B Corp movement, GOOD Worldwide, an L.A.-based social media platform and quarterly […]
November 1, 2012
Finance
BSR Survey: Investors Don't Read CSR Reports
Sustainability has traveled lightyears in the last two decades, but is not yet woven into the fabric of the American […]
October 24, 2012
Finance
Earthquake Recovery in Japan: Entrepreneurs to the Rescue
“Disaster relief” usually brings to mind images of tents, food and water convoys, and emergency medicine. But since 2011’s earthquake, […]
October 22, 2012
Finance
Australian Carbon Trading Scheme Commences: All Emissions Are Not Local
Australian carbon trading took another step forward last month when the first carbon credits under the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme […]
October 16, 2012
Corporate Responsibility
Facebook Begins Invading Users' Privacy Before Birth
In a recent Ad Age article, a number of marketers revealed to the world an undeniably creepy new detail about the data-mining industry: Facebook […]
October 15, 2012
Corporate Responsibility
Asian Philanthropy Includes Social Entrepreneurship, Corporate Giving
Last week, Give2Asia, a $25-million-a-year international charity, celebrated ten years of philanthropy at the Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco. The […]
October 15, 2012
Energy
Republican Heroes of Renewable Energy
The loan default of Fremont-based solar company Solyndra, Inc. has been beaten like a dead horse by Republican Congressional leadership […]
October 1, 2012
Corporate Responsibility
One in Three Hospitals Switching to Greener Purchasing, Survey Finds
From plastic bags containing blood for a transfusion to tubes inserted into the body, many of the products used in […]
September 27, 2012
Corporate Responsibility
Carrotmob's Capitalist Activism Goes to Sea
One of the most interesting groups out there altering the fabric of reality is Carrotmob. The San Francisco-based organizing group […]
September 26, 2012
Corporate Responsibility
Would You Rather Have 10 Angry Investors, or 68,000?
About ninety-five percent of the projects on Kickstarter are non-industrial: movies, video games, food products. For the five percent that […]
September 18, 2012
Energy
Food: "As Close as You Can Get to Someone Without Having Sex With Them"
“I don’t think anyone has ever cooked on the TED stage before,” said Bi-Rite Market founder Sam Mogannam, standing before a […]
September 14, 2012
Finance
Occupy Wall Street? San Francisco's Done That Already
“There are two distinct financial systems in this country,” said San Francisco Treasurer José Cisneros to the crowd at TEDx […]
September 14, 2012