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Energy

Caribou Coffee Goes 100% Rainforest Alliance Certified in the U.S.

Earth day came early this year for Caribou Coffee. The company that only trails Starbucks in the number of coffee […]

Leon Kaye

April 20, 2012

Energy

Interview: David Edmondson, CEO eRecyclingCorps

At this week’s Fortune Brainstorm Green conference, I had a chance to talk briefly with David Edmondson who is founder […]

Nick Aster

April 20, 2012

Energy

Patagonia Saving Salmon By Drying and Eating Them

Patagonia has rolled out a new snack that could help save the Pacific coast’s salmon population. For millennia, salmon has […]

Leon Kaye

April 19, 2012

Energy

World's Largest Rooftop Farm Coming to Brooklyn

Brooklyn’s Sunset Park neighborhood will soon be home to a 100,000 square foot, multi-acre rooftop farm that will produce a […]

Kara Scharwath

April 19, 2012

Energy

Scaling Stonyfield Yogurt

Stonyfield Yogurt is a hallmark of the sustainable business community. Founder Gary Hirshberg transformed a farm with seven cows into […]

jennifer boynton

April 18, 2012

Energy

European Wind a "Recession-Busting" Industry

Europe’s wind energy industry contributed an additional 33% – 32 billion euros (~$41.6 billion) – to EU GDP between 2007 […]

Andrew Burger

April 18, 2012

Energy

Undercover in the Industrial Food System

Tracie McMillan starts with a simple premise in her book The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebees, Farm […]

jennifer boynton

April 18, 2012

Technology

5 Reasons Why the U.S. Solar Industry Shouldn't be Upset with BrightSource

The U.S. solar industry has experienced emotional ups and downs in the last two years that might exhaust even stronger […]

Raz Godelnik

April 17, 2012

Technology

Duo to Ride Across America By Electric Bike to Promote Awareness

Last week, a team of two cyclists, Boris Mordkovich and Anna Mostovetsky, began a two and a half month, 4,000 […]

Phil Covington

April 17, 2012

Technology

What Is The Cost of Waiting for LED?

By Danielle Stewart There’s no denying Solid State LED technology for commercial lighting purposes will be very useful, providing big […]

TriplePundit

April 17, 2012

Energy

Walmart 2012 CSR Report: Focus on Waste, Renewables, Local Food

Ready to comb through Walmart’s 2012 Global Responsibility Report? The past year has been a bumpy one for Walmart’s sustainability agenda. […]

Leon Kaye

April 16, 2012

Technology

Dropping Solar Panel Costs and Grid Parity

Solar is, by any measure, a hot industry. Even with the reduction in subsidies from Germany and Italy, the world’s […]

Scott Cooney

April 16, 2012

Energy

Food & Water Watch Takes a Hard Look at Market Self-Regulation

Concerned about a recent trend in which financial interests have turned their attention to the profitability of trading in common […]

RP Siegel

April 13, 2012

Energy

Poop: the New Alternative Paper Source?

An Israeli entrepreneur has come up with a plan to make paper from human waste. This might sound unsavory, but Rafael Aharon […]

Akhila Vijayaraghavan

April 13, 2012

Energy

Lights, Camera… Waste Diversion

Imagine you are a commercial video production company striking a set.  You are in a time crunch, so the easiest […]

Jonathan Mariano

April 13, 2012

Technology

Bikes Double Their Mileage

In one of those, “Now why didn’t I think of that” moments, I came across a Kickstarter campaign for the […]

Scott Cooney

April 13, 2012

Energy

Can McDonald’s Turn Its Twitter #McFail Around?

They say the definition of insanity is behaving the same way and expecting a different result. If that’s the case, […]

jennifer boynton

April 12, 2012

Technology

Stronger U.S. Sales of Hybrids and Plug-in Electrics in March

March turned out to be a big month for auto sales in the United States. Reuters reported that total vehicle […]

Phil Covington

April 12, 2012

Sponsored

Energy Options: Pros and Cons

Algae-based Biofuel: Pros And Cons

Algae–based biofuel is a new energy source that has been getting a lot of attention lately. Certain types of algae […]

RP Siegel

April 12, 2012

Energy

Another Reason Not to Eat Factory Chicken: Arsenic

Earlier this week Nicholas Kristof wrote a piece in the NY Times about arsenic in chicken. He cited two studies […]

RP Siegel

April 11, 2012

Energy

U.S. Na­­vy Looks to the Seas for Clean Energy

The U.S. Navy is ramping up its efforts to harvest energy from the ocean with a new research project slated […]

Tina Casey

April 11, 2012

Energy

Is Your State Prepared for Climate Change?

A new report from the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) found that 29 states, almost 60 percent, are not prepared for […]

Gina-Marie Cheeseman

April 11, 2012

Energy

Colony Collapse Disorder and Honeybee Death Linked with Pesticide Use

The ongoing debate about the cause of colony collapse disorder has finally ended. Mongabay recently reported that “Harvard researchers have re-created […]

Akhila Vijayaraghavan

April 11, 2012

Energy

Triple Bottom Line Entrepreneurship in the Amazon Rainforest

By Lorna Li From a cup of tea shared in ceremony with a family of Kichwa shamans to an Amazon […]

TriplePundit

April 10, 2012

Energy

A Solution to the Residential Energy Efficiency "Split Incentive" Problem

The following is part of an “open letter” project by MBA students at the Presidio Graduate School in the Capital […]

Presidio Capital Markets

April 10, 2012

Energy

NIKE, NASA Just Do It, Partner on Waste

Last week NASA and NIKE kicked off “LAUNCH: Beyond Waste Challenge” to find 10 “game changing” innovations that could revamp […]

Leon Kaye

April 9, 2012

Technology

Israeli Startup SDE Produces Low-Cost Electricity From Waves

A version of this story originally appeared on NoCamels – Israeli Innovation News  By: Yinnon Shraga Did you ever look at the […]

TriplePundit

April 9, 2012

Energy

Greek Hopes Rest on Solar Power for Economic Recovery

Greece, perhaps more than any other country in the EU, has been the worst hit in the Euro-zone crisis. However, […]

Akhila Vijayaraghavan

April 9, 2012

Technology

Funding Energy Efficiency

By Pablo Päster Energy efficiency projects are often sidelined in favor of investments in manufacturing equipment or other capital investments […]

TriplePundit

April 9, 2012

Technology

Nest Thermostat 2.0 Brings New Energy-Saving Features

Last fall, I wrote a review of the Nest Learning Thermostat that attracted a lot of attention. It turns out […]

RP Siegel

April 6, 2012

Energy

NGOs and Activists Tackle Rubbish on Mt. Everest

By Amadou M. Cissé Mt. Everest or Sagarmatha is “so high that no bird can fly [above it]” as the […]

Maryland

April 6, 2012

Technology

Community and Recycling Among Highlights of Lowe’s 2011 CSR Report

Lowe’s has followed up last year’s corporate social responsibility report, a comprehensive review of the company’s investment in clean energy, greener […]

Leon Kaye

April 5, 2012

Energy

Chicago Leads the Way in Urban Sustainable Agriculture

The City of Chicago has been making some major leaps into sustainability. They have worked on increasing their urban green […]

Akhila Vijayaraghavan

April 5, 2012

Technology

New USGS Report Links Fracking and Earthquakes

The US Geological Survey (USGS) will be presenting a paper next month at the annual meeting of the Seismological Society of […]

Akhila Vijayaraghavan

April 5, 2012

Energy

Cash for Trash: Innovative Companies Profitably Upcycle, Recycle and Reduce Waste

By Vreni Hommes Turning worm poop into fertilizer was TerraCycle’s first big idea. Then they transformed discarded drink containers into […]

TriplePundit

April 5, 2012

Technology

Johnson Controls Touts Environmental Leadership, Green Design in 2011

Johnson Controls has long been touted as a sustainability leader and progressive company. The manufacturing and technology company touches our […]

Leon Kaye

April 4, 2012

Energy

Whole Foods to Stop Selling Overfished Species

Fish provides almost three billion people globally with almost 20 percent of their average per capita intake of animal protein, […]

Gina-Marie Cheeseman

April 4, 2012

Technology

GE Boosts Wind Power Portfolio with Oklahoma Investment

GE is ramping up its wind power business in the heart of oil country. This week the company announced that […]

Leon Kaye

April 4, 2012

Energy

Help Send a 3p Writer to Brazil!

This is the second installment of the UNEP/TreeHugger blogging competition. The writer with the most votes will win a trip […]

Andrea Newell

April 3, 2012

Energy

Open Letter to McDonald's and Walmart on Entrepreneurship in Low-Income Communities

The following is part of an “open letter” project by MBA students at the Presidio Graduate School in the Capital […]

Presidio Capital Markets

April 3, 2012

Sponsored

Energy Options: Pros and Cons

Natural Gas: Pros and Cons

Natural gas has been in the news a lot lately, being hailed as the solution to our energy problems on […]

RP Siegel

April 3, 2012

Energy

Chipotle Refuses to Sign Popular Farm Worker Protection Agreement

With it’s decision to air a melodic, tear jerker of an ad showing the pitfalls of factory farming, and commitment […]

Kara Scharwath

April 2, 2012

Technology

Solving the Green Energy Storage Problem

By Jessica Meyer A variety of ways to store excess electricity produced by solar and wind power, to be used […]

TriplePundit

April 2, 2012

Energy

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Cleantech

Almost every day you can find renewable energy in the news, and sometimes it’s so overwhelming that you can’t see […]

Raz Godelnik

April 2, 2012

Technology

Solyndra is Back: Romney, Santorum Agree

Just kidding!  Happy April Fools 2012 🙂 While the race to the Republican presidential nomination continues to bristle with confrontation […]

Nick Aster

April 1, 2012

Energy

McDonald’s Replaces PlayPlaces With Urban Gardens, Composting Sites

Just kidding! Happy April Fools 2012 🙂 McDonald’s, the Big Mac of fast food companies, has ramped up its efforts […]

Leon Kaye

April 1, 2012

Technology

SAP’s Sustainability Report: “Helping the World Run Better”

SAP is a company that makes its living providing information tools for businesses to better understand their business through quantitative […]

RP Siegel

March 30, 2012

Energy

Starbucks, Stonyfield Paying Their Own Recycling Tabs

Starbucks and Stonyfield are among the growing number of companies in the United States that are fronting some of the […]

Leon Kaye

March 30, 2012

Technology

One Woman's Quest to Recycle Homes, Build Green House People, and Provide Jobs to at-Risk

By Amy-Willard Cross This is Nancy Welsh’s math of urban renewal: She has subtracted 11 million pounds of construction debris […]

TriplePundit

March 30, 2012

Energy

Jet Fuel from Pine Trees

With the price of fuel rising, many folks are looking for alternatives.  The challenge facing many alternatives, especially when it […]

Jonathan Mariano

March 30, 2012

Technology

Technology for Good: GE’s Evolution from Financier to Green Tech Start-up Investor

This is the fifth in a series of posts entitled Technology for Good: A Historical Perspective From GE.  Last week, GE […]

Leon Kaye

March 29, 2012

Technology

Was the Hype Around Bloom Energy Two Years Ago Justified?

About two years ago Bloom Energy revealed its top secret “Bloom Box” fuel cell system and immediately created an incredible […]

Raz Godelnik

March 29, 2012

Energy

Video Interview: Why Are Kids Allergic To So Many Things These Days?

In 2006, one out of every 17 kids had a food allergy. According to CDC, there has been a 265 percent […]

Connie-Kwan

March 29, 2012

Technology

Solving Snow at Heathrow the Green Way

By Will Clevett A few years ago, Heathrow airport ground to a halt due to the cold weather; flurries of […]

TriplePundit

March 29, 2012

Energy

The Rising Trend of Take Back Programs

A number of companies have take back programs that allow customers to return products at the end of their life […]

Gina-Marie Cheeseman

March 29, 2012

Energy

How Capturing CO2 from the Air Can Help Save the Planet

By Marc Gunther Republicans aren’t alone in ignoring the climate threat. Visiting an oil pipeline in Cushing, OK, last week, […]

TriplePundit

March 28, 2012

Energy

Sustainable Cities: Meeting the Challenge of Rapid Urbanization the Focus of "Planet Under Pressure 2012"

Addressing the social, environmental and economic challenges associated with rapid and growing urbanization is bringing some 3,000 experts from around […]

Andrew Burger

March 28, 2012

Energy

Saudi Arabia Powering Up With Solar & Steam

Saudi Arabia is an interesting country when it comes to energy. First of all, they have more oil than anyone […]

RP Siegel

March 28, 2012

Technology

Volkswagen Bets on Greener Technologies

VW is the second largest automaker in the world and Europe’s biggest. So I was excited to read VW’s recent […]

Scott Cooney

March 27, 2012

Technology

H&M Launches New Organic and Recycled Collection

Whether you love the clothes made by Swedish retailer H&M or not, the fact remains that the company became the […]

Gina-Marie Cheeseman

March 26, 2012

Technology

Tata Motors Air Car—Is it Really Coming?

There been quite a bit of buzz for several years now about the Tata Motors MiniCAT Air Car, a car […]

RP Siegel

March 26, 2012

Energy

Wendy's Requires Pork Suppliers to Phase Out Cruel Gestation Crates

Sow gestation crates are incredibly confined spaces, just seven feet by two feet, that female pigs (sows) are forced to live […]

Gina-Marie Cheeseman

March 26, 2012

Energy

Does Food + Technology = Sustainable Food?

Possibly.  Over 100 people gathered at this month’s Food Startups  meetup in San Francisco to contemplate this question and more […]

Connie-Kwan

March 26, 2012

Energy

Energy Secretary Chu Chooses Popularity Over Sustainability

Energy Secretary Stephen Chu has asserted that he no longer thinks gasoline prices need to go up. One way or […]

RP Siegel

March 23, 2012

Technology

Pythagoras Solar: Solar-Paneled Windows To Generate Power For Buildings

A version of this story originally appeared on NoCamels – Israeli Innovation News  By David Allouche An Israeli startup is trying to […]

TriplePundit

March 23, 2012

Energy

First Wind: Hawaii’s Winds of Renewable Energy

First Wind, a wind energy company, has obtained $236 in financing for its third wind project in Hawaii, the 69 […]

Bill DiBenedetto

March 23, 2012

Energy

US Food Distribution Should Adopt a Regional Approach

I’ve been covering the food distribution market over at Software Advice for the last year, and one thing that’s perplexed […]

TriplePundit

March 23, 2012

Technology

Technology for Good: A Half Century of GE Solar

This is the third in a series of posts entitled Technology for Good: A Historical Perspective From GE.  Last week, GE […]

Leon Kaye

March 22, 2012

Energy

McDonald’s Considers Replacing Foam Cups With Paper

Yesterday McDonald’s announced it would test paper coffee cups instead of the current foam cups in 2000 of its U.S. […]

Leon Kaye

March 22, 2012

Technology

New Energy Technologies Turns Windows into Invisible Solar Panels

In the new energy future, building owners can squeeze some extra value out of their property by installing rooftop solar […]

Tina Casey

March 22, 2012

Energy

"Save The Plastic Bag Coalition" Fights Against Banning Plastic Bags in SF

If you thought the debate over the impact of plastic bags is one debate we’re already done with, you got […]

Raz Godelnik

March 22, 2012

Energy

World Sparrow Day Puts Focus on the Humblest Urban Dweller

Yesterday was World Sparrow Day and today I’m going to deviate from my usual postings dedicated to this common, yet […]

Akhila Vijayaraghavan

March 22, 2012