Stories from RP Siegel
Energy
Masdar’s Solar Hub Provides Unique Test Facility in the Middle East
Other than the fact that the earth underneath the Middle East is drenched in oil, you wouldn’t think there was […]
July 22, 2015
Energy
Regional Cap-and-Trade Shown to Save Money While Boosting Economy and Cutting Emissions
Two myths consistently being put forward by conservative think-tanks are that government regulation hurts the economy and that efforts to […]
July 16, 2015
Corporate Responsibility
CVS Health Quits US Chamber of Commerce in Another Principled Stand on Tobacco
A few weeks ago we ran a story about CVS Health‘s principled stand on tobacco. The company basically gave up $2 […]
July 14, 2015
Energy
Fossil Fuel Climate Deception Spans Three Decades
It’s not surprising to read about the deliberate actions of fossil fuel companies to spread doubt on the direct linkage between […]
July 10, 2015
Energy
Green Aviation Climbs to New Heights on Multiple Fronts
This turns out to be quite a week for green aviation. First, an incredible milestone in the historic journey of […]
July 8, 2015
Energy
New Climate Commitments Help Set the Stage for Paris
This past week has certainly been an eventful one, enough so that this important bit of news on the climate […]
July 6, 2015
Energy
Hormel Develops Targeted Nutrition Solution for Guatemalan Children
This post is sponsored by Hormel Foods. Opinions are my own. Everything from cars, to buildings, to agriculture seems to […]
July 2, 2015
Corporate Responsibility
Ford Launches U.S. Car-Sharing Pilot
It’s a big job for companies today to stay in front of the changes that are sweeping the business world. […]
June 26, 2015
Corporate Responsibility
Autodesk Sustainability Report: “Here to Help More People Design a Better World”
Many companies today are taking actions to improve their environmental footprint and their social impact under the banner of corporate […]
June 25, 2015
Energy
'Climathon' Seeks Climate Solutions From All Across the Globe
A group of 16 cities from around the world will be participating in a 24-hour climate hackathon, which they are […]
June 17, 2015
Voices for Change
Leaked Papal Encyclical Calls Out Climate Deniers, Warns of 'Grave Consequences'
When the Catholic Church found itself deep in scandal and turmoil over numerous allegations of inappropriate behavior, it turned to […]
June 16, 2015
Energy
Volkswagen Puts Forests on the Ledger
Our economy is like a giant organism that lives and breathes value. Arteries bring revenue to sellers, and veins carry […]
June 12, 2015
Voices for Change
Heartland to Present Climate Denial Awards
Is there anything about the Koch Brothers’ Heartland Institute that isn’t disingenuous? This week the group announced its 2015 Climate […]
June 11, 2015
Energy
MillerCoors Announces Zero Waste-to-Landfill Brewery and Campus
MillerCoors brewing company announced today that both its corporate headquarters and its Milwaukee brewery are now landfill free. This is […]
June 9, 2015
Sponsored
The ROI of Sustainability
MillerCoors Sees the ROI in Conserving Water
This article is part of a series on “The ROI of Sustainability,” written with the support of MeterHero. MeterHero helps […]
June 4, 2015
Voices for Change
Futurist Alex Steffen: Bright, Clean Cities are the Key to a Sustainable Future
Editor’s Note: This post is part of TriplePundit’s coverage of BASF Creator Space: New York, held May 26 through May […]
June 1, 2015
Voices for Change
BASF CreatorSpace NYC Confronts Post-Sandy Neighborhood Realities
Editor’s Note: This post is part of TriplePundit’s coverage of BASF Creator Space: New York, held May 26 through May […]
May 29, 2015
Energy
Developing Nations’ Renewable Investments to Exceed Those of Developed World
When President Barack Obama signed his historic climate change agreement with China last year, there were those among his opponents […]
May 22, 2015
Sponsored
Disrupting Short-Termism
SAP Develops Workforce of the Future
Can a capitalist society, emerging from a legacy of exploitation of both planet and workers, give rise to companies that […]
May 21, 2015
Corporate Responsibility
Obama Calls Climate Change 'Immediate Threat'
Speaking to this year’s graduating class of the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut, President Barack Obama called climate […]
May 21, 2015
Sponsored
The Circular Economy and Green Electronics
As Phones, Laptops and Tablets Shrink, Challenges for Recyclers Rise
The last several decades have brought a global explosion of electronics with a huge impact on quality of life and communications, […]
May 19, 2015
Sponsored
Disrupting Short-Termism
CVS Sets Example by Taking the High Road on Tobacco Sales
Every now and then, a company takes a bold step, walking away from a profitable line of business because it […]
May 13, 2015
Corporate Responsibility
NASA Climate Budget Sees Cuts As CO2 Levels Surpass 400 PPM
Congressional Republicans, many with strong financial backing from the fossil fuel industry, have protested loudly against what they call President […]
May 13, 2015
Sponsored
The ROI of Sustainability
Finding the ROI in Sustainability
This article is part of a series on “The ROI of Sustainability,” written with the support of MeterHero. MeterHero helps […]
May 11, 2015
Sponsored
Creativity & Social Innovation
Design as an Agent of World Benefit
In constructing our modern world, we have exceeded planetary boundaries that we didn’t even know existed. From the perspective of […]
May 4, 2015
Energy
Solar-Pedal Trike Fits the Niche Between Bikes and Cars
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal said that China would soon have as many drivers as the U.S. has […]
April 28, 2015
Sponsored
Women in Leadership
What's Behind the Boom in Women Entrepreneurs?
There are now 8.3 million women-owned businesses in the United States. Together they employ more people than McDonald’s, IBM and […]
April 21, 2015
Energy
Report: Climate Change Poses High Risk for Low-Income Rural Communities
Lately, we’ve been seeing an effort to broaden the audience of the climate change discussion to reach “beyond the choir,” […]
April 13, 2015
Voices for Change
Obama Links Climate Change with Public Health
This week is National Public Health Week. One of the events commemorating the occasion was a roundtable discussion on Tuesday at […]
April 9, 2015
Energy
How Can We Get More Women Involved in STEM Fields?
There is an economic recovery happening, though it isn’t happening everywhere. Some localities and some skills are seeing much higher […]
April 8, 2015
Corporate Responsibility
Pressure Builds on Holdouts as More Companies Ditch ALEC
There’s an old joke about two campers who are awakened by the sound of a bear rampaging through their campsite. […]
April 2, 2015
Corporate Responsibility
Obama Administration to Curb Coal Mining on Federal Land
Last summer, I wrote about the exploitation of a massive chunk of federal land — mostly out West — that […]
March 27, 2015
Energy
It’s Oil, Not Renewables, That Seems to be Killing Jobs
Workers in the oil industry are about to become victims of their own success. As the American oil industry has […]
March 25, 2015
Corporate Responsibility
Mushrooms to the Rescue in the Ecuadorian Amazon
I’m not sure if you’d have any luck selling Hollywood on the idea of a superhero that happens to be […]
March 20, 2015
Finance
Who Will Benefit From the Trans-Pacific Partnership?
President Obama is so keen on passing the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) that he’s asking Congress for fast-track approval. What that […]
March 18, 2015
Finance
What's The True Cost of Gasoline?
Financial markets notwithstanding, most of us were happy to see gas prices fall. It has certainly helped to put a little […]
March 16, 2015
Corporate Responsibility
EPA’s New 'Safer Choice' Label Identifies Healthier Products
It’s a bit refreshing to have an administration in Washington that is not beholden to the petrochemical industry. Not only […]
March 12, 2015
Technology
Solar Impulse Completes First Leg of Round the World Flight
After 13 years of planning, the Solar Impulse SI2 took off last night from Al-Bateen Executive Airport in Abu Dhabi […]
March 10, 2015
Corporate Responsibility
Ford's Parking Spotter Could Keep You From the Endless Hunt
If you’re a car company and you want to do something to help reduce carbon emissions, what do you do? […]
March 5, 2015
Corporate Responsibility
Conversation with Novo Nordisk’s VP of Corporate Sustainability
As a follow-up to our recent story on Novo Nordisk’s annual sustainability report, we had the opportunity to chat with […]
March 3, 2015
Technology
Portable Distillation Unit Cleans Sea Water on a Sunny Day
A number of solutions have been put forward to address the daunting problem facing roughly a billion people on this […]
February 26, 2015
Corporate Responsibility
Introducing the Healthy Climate and Family Security Act
A major press conference today featuring Bill McKibben and U.S. Rep. Chris Van Hollen, as well as senior Sierra Club leaders, […]
February 25, 2015
Corporate Responsibility
China Leads in Contributions to Pacific Garbage Patch
We’ve all heard a lot about plastic pollution, which has led to a movement away from plastic shopping bags and […]
February 19, 2015
Corporate Responsibility
Indian Government Blocks Greenpeace Activist From Traveling
India and China both have high levels of poverty. Both are energetically pursuing policies of economic growth to both reduce […]
February 17, 2015
Corporate Responsibility
Novo Nordisk Annual Report Takes Diabetes Battle to the Cities
Danish pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk, a leading force in the battle against diabetes, has long been admired for taking the […]
February 12, 2015
Corporate Responsibility
Washington State Pursues Clean Fuels
The state of Washington just released a draft rule for a clean fuel standard. This was done under the umbrella […]
February 10, 2015
Energy
MillerCoors Adds Solar Power to the Brew
MillerCoors has been working to reduce the impact of its operations from the start. Formed six years ago as a […]
January 30, 2015
Corporate Responsibility
New Investment Fund Finds Promising Startups in Sustainable Fish Farming
In many ways, the sustainability journey is one of growing our capacity to provide critical production outputs like energy, food […]
January 28, 2015
Energy
Abu Dhabi's 2030 Vision
One thing I promised to look into, after having won the trip to Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week 2015 based on […]
January 26, 2015
Energy
Highlights From the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi
Poking around the exhibit hall at the 2015 World Future Energy Summit, one of the key elements of Abu Dhabi […]
January 20, 2015
Energy
Visions of 2030
Next week I will be attending Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week in the United Arab Emirates as the winner of the Masdar […]
January 16, 2015
Corporate Responsibility
Chinese Court Clears the Way For Environmentalists to Bring Suit
The news from China seems to be improving. First, the Asian nation agreed to target peak carbon emissions and produce 20 percent […]
January 15, 2015
Corporate Responsibility
Florida Tea Party Group Clamoring for More Rooftop Solar
Our journey toward a sustainable future has been and will undoubtedly continue to be an uneven ride, marked by setbacks […]
January 14, 2015
Finance
Larry Summers Calls For a Carbon Tax Now
In a recent op-ed in the Washington Post, former Treasury Secretary Lawrence “Larry” Summers makes the point that, with gasoline […]
January 8, 2015
Corporate Responsibility
Will 2015 Be the Year of the Plug-in Hybrid?
As we start the New Year, there is a quiet sense of optimism that says perhaps we are reaching a […]
January 5, 2015
Corporate Responsibility
What Does the Future Hold for the Landfill Ecosystem?
You don’t have to be a tree-hugger to recognize the fact that we can’t forever continue to take raw materials […]
January 2, 2015
Energy
Climate Change is Impacting the Flavor and Quality of Wine
It has been a challenge at times to get well-heeled and sometimes highly influential people to care about climate change. […]
December 30, 2014
Energy
Will Energy Skyscrapers Someday Dot the Southwestern Desert?
Sometimes you have to think big. That’s certainly what Dr. Phillip Carlson would say. He’s the guy that invented the […]
December 25, 2014
Finance
Dutch Bankers Now Asked to Take an Oath of Ethics
So, now after some 10,000 years or so of human civilization, what have we actually learned? One thing that seems clear […]
December 24, 2014
Energy
What Role Will Mushrooms Play in a Sustainable Future?
As we move forward to a more sustainable and flourishing future, we’re going to need to increase our understanding of […]
December 18, 2014
Corporate Responsibility
Western New York: 2030
This post is an entry in the Masdar Engage Blogging Contest. It used to be too cold up here in […]
December 17, 2014
Technology
Could Spray-On Solar Change the Game?
We’ve heard a lot about falling solar prices. Some of that is due to dumping of low-cost panels from China. […]
December 16, 2014
Corporate Responsibility
Republican Congressman to Introduce Climate Change Bill
Eventually the truth, like cream, rises to the top, though it sometimes takes a long time. Perhaps it’s because we […]
December 12, 2014
Voices for Change
State Attorneys General Make Secret Pact With Big Oil to Oppose EPA
Last week I wrote a story about the outpouring of support for the EPA’s Clean Power Plan among both businesses […]
December 10, 2014
Finance
Corporate Support Pours in For EPA Clean Power Plan
A number of different groups came out this week in support of the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, the rule that […]
December 4, 2014
Corporate Responsibility
Which City Ranks as Most Connected?
We know that cities are growing bigger, smarter and more connected, but which cities are best connected and which ones […]
December 2, 2014
Energy
Komaza Plants Sustainable Microforestry in Kenya
Sometimes, what we don’t know can set us free. Visiting a foreign nation — and seeing local people struggle to […]
November 27, 2014
Voices for Change
TransCanada’s Keystone Backup Plan
Last week, the Senate blocked another attempt at passing the Keystone XL pipeline. The vote fell short by only one […]
November 24, 2014
Sponsored
Carbon Offsetting
Carbon Offsets: Start with the Footprint
Read more in this series As part of our ongoing series on carbon offsets, it’s time to peel back another […]
November 19, 2014
Corporate Responsibility
Obama Announces $3 Billion Pledge to U.N. Climate Fund
Right on the heels of his historic climate agreement with China, President Barack Obama announced a pledge of $3 billion […]
November 17, 2014
Corporate Responsibility
Food Cowboy Lassoes Food Waste
One of the great (and sometimes not so great) things about our modern, hyper-connected world is that we have become […]
November 14, 2014
Corporate Responsibility
Arizona to Roll Back Efficiency Standards
When you see things happen that just don’t make any sense at all, it’s probably politics. Last year the state […]
November 13, 2014
Corporate Responsibility
U.S. and China Reach Historic Climate Agreement
A surprising announcement came out this morning as President Obama concluded his visit to China where he’d been attending a […]
November 12, 2014
Energy
Xerox Provides New Tools to Reduce Printing Impact
Given the widespread popularity of digital communications, you might imagine that the use of paper should just about be dead […]
November 10, 2014
Energy
Replenish Brings the Refill to Personal Care
Sustainability becomes embedded when it becomes invisible, and that happens as a consequence of good design. People don’t buy Tesla […]
November 7, 2014
Corporate Responsibility
Latest IPCC Report Comes with Grim Warnings
Last week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its fourth and final report on climate change. The report […]
November 5, 2014
Finance
Nadya Zhexembayeva on Innovation in a Resource-Deprived World
I met Nadya Zhexembayeva at the Flourish and Prosper conference in Cleveland. Nadya, who received her doctorate at Case Western, […]
October 31, 2014
Corporate Responsibility
Food Waste is a Bigger Problem Than You Think
Food waste is a horrendous problem in this country that no one seems to want to talk about. Yet food […]
October 31, 2014
Technology
CODA Automotive Back From Bankruptcy With Energy Storage Solution
Energy storage has become an exciting area, both as a new business and as an enabler for the continued rapid […]
October 24, 2014
Finance
"Flourish and Prosper" Part 2: Moving Ideas to Action
The Flourish & Prosper conference held last week at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland sought to distinguish itself by […]
October 22, 2014
Corporate Responsibility
'Flourish and Prosper' Takes Sustainability to the Next Level
This week I had the opportunity to attend the Third Global Forum for Businesses as an Agent of World Benefit […]
October 20, 2014
Voices for Change
Vestergaard’s Success Secret: Its Culture
Editor’s Note: Triple Pundit’s RP Siegel visited Kenya to learn more about the LifeStraw Follow the Liters campaign. This is […]
October 15, 2014
Voices for Change
The Carbon for Water Program's Impact in Rural Kenyan Homes
Editor’s Note: Triple Pundit’s RP Siegel visited Kenya to learn more about the LifeStraw Follow the Liters campaign. This is […]
October 13, 2014
Energy
Follow the Liters Campaign Brings Water Filters to Rural Kenyan Schools
The Simakina Primary School is located on a remote dirt road that has been ravaged by the trucks that come […]
October 9, 2014
Sponsored
Corporate Responsibility And Internet Security
Targeted Marketing and Online Privacy
Have you noticed that lately, the moment a notion or product pops into your head, you suddenly start seeing ads […]
October 7, 2014
Voices for Change
Kenyan Campaign Delivers Clean Water to Thousands in Need
I am in Kenya this week following the activities of Vestergaard, a rather remarkable mission-driven company that first came to […]
October 6, 2014
Finance
CDP Connects Climate Action and Financial Results
Like it or not, most decisions today are based on economics. It’s the way our system is put together and […]
September 30, 2014
Finance
MyMeter Provides Energy-Saving Tools to Homes and Businesses
On a sunny summer day in Los Angles, a thousand air conditioners might easily turn on at the exact same […]
September 25, 2014
Technology
Volvo Introduces High-Performance Hybrid-Electric Bus
It’s common knowledge that getting people to use public transportation instead of driving cars will reduce carbon emissions. According to […]
September 23, 2014
Corporate Responsibility
Life After Sandy: How NYC is Improving Its Electric Grid
Editor’s Note: This article is part of a short series on creating resilient cities, sponsored by Siemens. Please join us for […]
September 15, 2014