Stories from RP Siegel
Technology
Smart Grid Surges Ahead in South Korea
Over the past several decades, South Korea has become a pre-eminent developer of technology, ranging from computers and electronics to […]
July 22, 2011
Finance
The Great American Suburban Ponzi Scheme
As a friend of mine recently said on his Facebook page, “Your car is Japanese. Your vodka is Russian. Your […]
July 21, 2011
Corporate Responsibility
Bottoms Up: Why SABMiller Strives to Make More Beer with Less Water
Last week mega-brewer SABMiller released their 2011 Sustainable Development Summary Report. The company, which earned $5.04B up 15% from last […]
July 19, 2011
Voices for Change
The Land Institute: Advancing Nature’s Deep Model of Sustainability
Recently, I was fortunate enough to visit the Land Institute, an experimental farm just outside of Salina, Kansas that is […]
July 14, 2011
Corporate Responsibility
The Insurance Industry Can't Afford to Have Their Heads in the Sand on Climate Change
I have been saying for a long time now, that the next revolution in this country will be led, not […]
July 13, 2011
Corporate Responsibility
Sherwin-Williams Spreads Sustainability Farther With New “Green” Paint
Sherwin-Williams Company recently received an EPA Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award for a new paint formulation that uses both soybean […]
June 30, 2011
Voices for Change
Interstate Bicycle Highway System is on its Way
Here is a news item that is close to my heart. The US is moving forward on a plan to […]
June 28, 2011
Finance
Bank of America Putting Billions into Solar
This deal is a really big deal. Bank of America announced an agreement this week with ProLogis, and NRG Energy […]
June 24, 2011
Technology
Non-profit Centers Find Sustainable Success Through Collaboration
Call it serendipity. But when the Tides NonProfit Centers Network set out in 2004 to provide education and resources for […]
June 22, 2011
Finance
The Incredible Edible Park Supplies Food Bank
I was just perusing the new social media website wishes4life.com, which focuses on wish expression and development (or what they […]
June 17, 2011
Finance
Verizon Exceeds AT&T’s Energy Efficiency Performance
Like AT&T, Verizon also recently released their 2010 Corporate Social Responsibility Report. Ma Bell’s report was called “Meet the Possibility […]
June 15, 2011
Corporate Responsibility
AT&T Exceeds Aggressive Energy Reduction Goal
AT&T recently released their 2010 sustainability report entitled “Meet the Possibility Economy.” The 82-page report is upbeat and forward-looking and […]
June 13, 2011
Voices for Change
HP Mobile Devices Join the Battle Against Malaria
HP, the innovation company that started out making oscilloscopes and waveform generators, and then swept through the personal printing business […]
June 9, 2011
Corporate Responsibility
Latest Tea Party Action Targets Planning, Sustainability and the Greater Good
Well, it seems like those tea party folks are at it again, proudly displaying their unique, mind-bending brand of self-centered […]
June 6, 2011
Corporate Responsibility
3P Interview with P&G Water Hero: Dr. Greg Allgood
Greg Allgood is the Director of P&G Children’s Safe Drinking Water (CSDW) program. Based on the many good things they’ve […]
June 3, 2011
Finance
Chevron Advocate Posing as a Journalist Caught Sending Phony Emails
Here is a story worth passing along, for anyone who likes to know what is really going on behind the […]
June 1, 2011
Technology
GE’s New Power Technology Combines Conventional Efficiency with Renewables
Today, GE unveiled their new combined cycle FlexEfficiency 50 power plant, a dramatic new power generation technology that is intended […]
May 26, 2011
Finance
What the Folks at the Bottom of the Pyramid Can Teach Us
There was an article in Harvard Business Review last week by Deepa Prahalad entitled “Design Lessons from the Consumer at […]
May 25, 2011
Finance
Nestlé Gets On the Reporting Bandwagon: How Did They Do?
The road to sustainable business now passes through a glass tunnel called “Transparency.” Consumers exercise their singular, unequivocal influence: their […]
May 23, 2011
Corporate Responsibility
Oil, Money, and Influence, Continued
I was surprised at how some people took exception to last week’s post which covered the story from Carbon Brief […]
May 20, 2011
Finance
Nine Out of Ten Top Climate Deniers Linked to ExxonMobil
Today’s story probably won’t come as a big surprise to anyone, but in an era where unsubstantiated assertions fly through […]
May 9, 2011
Technology
Government Agencies Respond to Global Warming Challenge…Sort Of
Pursuant to President Obama’s Executive Order on Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy and Economic Performance, the Federal Government just released its […]
May 6, 2011
Corporate Responsibility
Ford Credits Green Vehicles as Driver Behind Earnings Jump
Ford Motor Company is feeling pretty good about itself these days. The company just announced its best quarterly profits this […]
May 5, 2011
Voices for Change
American Security Project: How Much Will Climate Change Cost Your State?
The American Security Project ASP, a non-profit, bipartisan public policy and research organization, has recently issued a series of 50 […]
May 4, 2011
Finance
BP Files Blame-Sharing Lawsuit Against Gulf Partners
April 21st marked the first anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. BP used the occasion […]
April 29, 2011
Finance
BP Denies Gulf Coast Residents Access to Annual Shareholders Meeting
Just days after BP published their recalcitrant 2010 Sustainability Report, saying how eager they were to win back the public’s […]
April 27, 2011
Corporate Responsibility
A Look at BP's 2010 Sustainability Report
BP just released their 2010 Sustainability Report. The 50-page glossy presentation is filled with sincerity, regret and promises to do […]
April 26, 2011
Corporate Responsibility
P&G's Sustainability Scorecard Spreads a Wave of Green Down the Supply Chain
Procter and Gamble, having recently completed a one year pilot of their Supplier Environmental Sustainability Scorecard is now rolling out […]
April 21, 2011
Finance
Why the US Today is Like the South Before the Civil War
I happened to catch an interview on NPR’s Fresh Air the other day with Adam Goodheart, the author of a […]
April 20, 2011
Energy
Money to Burn? GE is Putting Wasted Flare Gas to Work
Imagine checking your tires regularly to maintain proper inflation, getting your car tuned up as needed to keep it running […]
April 15, 2011
Corporate Responsibility
Green Groups Ask FTC to Halt CBS Greenwashing
A number of leading environmental groups including Rainforest Action Network, Center for Environmental Health, and Friends of the Earth filed […]
April 13, 2011
Corporate Responsibility
How Earth-Friendly Will the Skies Be in Twenty Years?
Ready or not, the future is being created now, partly by deliberate planning and partly by colliding circumstances. Some of […]
April 12, 2011
Finance
Are Beverage Companies Doing Enough? A Challenge To Do A Drop More
A considerable portion of this series has been devoted to discussions with and about the beverage industry and their efforts […]
April 8, 2011
Energy
The Upcoming Avoidable Water Crisis
As our series on the future of drinking water begins to wind down, I wanted to be sure to include […]
April 6, 2011
Technology
Smart IBM Reaches Out to Smarter Cities with Cash in Hand
I have to say, I was pretty excited when I read about IBM’s Smarter Cities Challenge Grant Program, where a […]
April 4, 2011
Koch Brothers Donate $10 Million to Erectile Dysfunction
April fool 2011 🙂 It all started with a snake, or to be more precise, a bunch of snakes. A […]
April 1, 2011
Energy
Intelligent Use of Water: Is Australia’s Model the One to Follow?
Naomi Klein, in her book, The Shock Doctrine, makes the point that it is far easier to get big things […]
March 30, 2011
Energy
Lester Brown: Mobilizing to Save Civilization
I received an invitation last week from Marilyn Weiner, the co-producer of the PBS series Journey to Planet Earth (and […]
March 29, 2011
Energy
Dow Water and Process Interview: Part 2
Interview with Snehal Desai, Global Marketing Director for Dow Water and Process Solutions – Continued from Part 1. 3P: Are […]
March 25, 2011
Energy
Interview with Dow Water and Process: Industry’s Role in Water Conservation: Part 1
I was fortunate to be able to speak with Snehal Desai this week as part of our series on our […]
March 24, 2011
Energy
World Water Day: A Great Time to Quench Your Thirst for Knowledge
Yesterday, was World Water Day, the UN’s commemoration of our most precious resource. This year’s focus was on Water for […]
March 23, 2011
Corporate Responsibility
Evian Shrinks its Bottle and its Footprint
One thing I’ve learned while putting together this series on the future of drinking water is this: it’s a lot […]
March 21, 2011
Corporate Responsibility
US Chamber of Commerce: Shoot the Messenger Whatever the Cost
Bill McKibben wrote a piece last week in which he looks past the Koch brothers, who are finally getting the […]
March 18, 2011
Energy
How Close Are We to Peak Water?
In our series so far, we have heard mostly from people in the bottled beverage business, talking about opportunities to […]
March 16, 2011
Finance
VentureSource Ranks Top Green Startups
Last week, we saw the results of the top 100 corporate citizen ranking from Corporate Responsibility magazine. This week, we […]
March 14, 2011
Finance
Interview with Nestlé Waters’ New Sustainability Director: Part 3
This is a final installment of the Triple Pundit interview with Michael Washburn, newly appointed Director of Sustainability for Nestlé […]
March 10, 2011
Finance
Interview with Nestlé Waters’ New Sustainability Director: Part 2
This is a continuation of the interview in three parts with Michael Washburn, newly appointed Director of Sustainability for Nestlé […]
March 9, 2011
Corporate Responsibility
Interview with Nestlé Waters’ New Sustainability Director: Part 1
I had the opportunity to speak with Michael Washburn, who just recently hired on with Nestlé Waters as director of […]
March 8, 2011
Finance
Corporate Responsibility Magazine Releases their Top 100 Corporate Citizen List
Corporate Responsibility Magazine announced their list of the top 100 corporate citizens yesterday, Wednesday, March 2, in a ceremony at […]
March 4, 2011
Corporate Responsibility
The Future of Drinking Water: A New 3p Series
As soon as I found out that I would have the opportunity to interview Michael Washburn, the new Sustainability Director […]
March 2, 2011
Energy
USDA Approves GMO Alfalfa Despite Scientist Warning
Perhaps the wheels of government are too heavy to stop once they are set in motion, or maybe they are […]
February 28, 2011
Technology
“Side Effects” of Coal Cost US More Than $340 Billion Annually
A report published recently in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by a group of Harvard scientists […]
February 25, 2011
Corporate Responsibility
Carbon Sciences: What if We Could Turn CO2 Into Gasoline?
Years ago, when I knew a lot less than I do now about sustainability, I found myself thinking that if […]
February 23, 2011
Energy
Algae-based Fuel Takes Off With Qantas
Those of us who consider the convenience of air travel an indispensable part of our work lives, but feel guilty […]
February 21, 2011
Corporate Responsibility
Coca-Cola 2009-10 Sustainability Report: Bright Spots and Gaps
Coca-Cola just released their 2009-10 Sustainability Review calling it “Our commitment to making a positive difference in the world.” In […]
February 18, 2011
Finance
Chevron Slammed With $8.6 Billion for Ecuador Spill
This week saw another step towards a final resolution to an environmental drama that has been playing out in courtrooms, […]
February 16, 2011
Finance
Haiti: New Model of a Wireless World is Emerging From the Rubble
The way we do business is going to be changing and some sneak previews of those changes are popping up […]
February 15, 2011
Energy
Climate Scientist Sues Skeptic in Heated Exchange
Two Canadian scientists engaged in a heated debate over global warming have taken the gloves off and, in the absence […]
February 11, 2011
Corporate Responsibility
Study: Sprawl Down Under is All Over
Australia may or may not be at the bottom of the world, but it does seem to be close to […]
February 9, 2011
Energy
Sustainable Ziploc®: Oxymoron?
Back in December I did a post on SC Johnson’s effort to become more transparent by posting the ingredients to […]
February 7, 2011
Energy
BP, Putting Oil Spill Behind It, Reports 4th Quarter Profit: But is That The End of the Story?
Hard to believe how quickly we forget. The BP Gulf Oil spill that was presumed to be the fossil fuel […]
February 4, 2011
Corporate Responsibility
Schneider Electric: Energy Performance Contracting Puts Green On the Line
Schneider Electric is another one of those very big companies you’ve probably never heard of, though they do make the […]
February 2, 2011
Technology
NASA’s Sustainability Base: The Greenest of Them All?
Remember when space was the final frontier? Perhaps it still is, but in the years that have passed since we […]
January 31, 2011
Corporate Responsibility
Unreasonable Institute: Pushing Beyond Out-of-the Box
Given the complex set of interlocking issues and problems that confront our society today, it would be comforting to know […]
January 28, 2011
Technology
LEED-Certified "Guzzler" Draws Criticism
When the Charlotte, NC ImaginOn opened in 2005, it was the city’s first green building. The combination library and children’s […]
January 26, 2011
Energy
The True Cost of Rush Hour
A recent study out of Texas A&M called the 2010 Urban Mobility Report studies the patterns and consequences of traffic […]
January 24, 2011
Corporate Responsibility
GoodGuide Keeps Growing: A Cool Tool to Help Consumers Change the World
If you’re reading this column, then chances are you’re concerned about your impact on the planet. Most of us here […]
January 21, 2011
Technology
4800 Square Foot House in the Hamptons Wins LEED Platinum
Last week, guest author Susan Brautovich raised the question of whether green mega-homes are truly green or if small and […]
January 19, 2011
Technology
The Taylor Companies: Green Furniture for Green Buildings
Have you ever checked the ingredients of your office furniture? Perhaps you’ve been afraid to look. Chances are you wouldn’t […]
January 13, 2011
Technology
USGBC Requests Comments on New LEED Draft
Based on the strong response to my posting earlier this month entitled “Is LEED No Longer in the Lead?”We’ve decided […]
January 11, 2011
Corporate Responsibility
Australia's Plan for a Zero-Carbon Economy by 2020
In response to a recent post which described the likelihood that natural gas will overtake coal as our primary means […]
January 10, 2011
Technology
Sonata Hybrid Goes Coast to Coast, Stopping to Fill Up Only Once
Imagine driving across the country, from San Diego, California to Jekyll Island, Georgia. You fill up the car once at […]
January 7, 2011
Finance
Is the End of Coal Already Here?
There’s been an implicit assumption that with Peak Oil either already here or arriving soon and our society’s gargantuan (and […]
January 5, 2011
Technology
Is LEED No Longer in the Lead?
“It seemed like a good idea at the time.” Is that what they will be saying about the LEED standard […]
January 4, 2011