Nov 22, 09
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EPA Stops Coal Companies From Destroying Hundreds of Mountaintops and Streams With High Explosives
This week the EPA scored a one-two combination against our unsustainable use of fossil fuels. Monday, three weeks earlier than expected, the EPA announced that greenhouse gases are pollutants that endanger public health and welfare (see here), requiring the Obama administration to regulate them in accordance with the Clean Air Act. And yesterday, the EPA put a hold on hundreds of surface coal mine operations allowing the Agency time to assess the projects’ detrimental impact on the life...
Create Your Own Currency
"Money," wrote Jamais Cascio, "is the tangible manifestation of an agreement between you and other people that the oddly-colored piece of paper in your hands has value." But what's truly valuable is not those units of currency, so much as the units of time they represent to those who earn and spend them. Two women from Ashland, Ore., who follow this philosophy have created a way to turn units of time into currency that can be directly traded and tracked through their online system...
Citizen Renaissance: A Conversation Toward a New Economy
A few months ago, we posted about a WWF-UK report that predicted the "green" consumer craze would eventually hit a wall. According to the report's author, Dr. Tom Crompton, the marketing approach to green products, green lifestyles and individual small steps, when "sold" to consumers using the same kinds of pitches used for most other commercial goods, didn't run deep enough to change an individual's core values or true consumption habits. He argued that in fact, the approach could even be...
Oil Addiction and Recession
Vulnerability to oil prices helped cause this collapse. by Alan Durning Poorly regulated real-estate lending wasn’t the only cause of the economic meltdown now gripping the industrial economies. Oil addiction also contributed. The extraordinary rise in oil prices since 2003 has sucked hundreds of billions of dollars out of the US economy (and the Cascadian economy). High oil prices have been a contributing cause of most recessions: Since 1948, “all large oil price increases but two...
Book Review: Nudge
By Coco Krumme Call it the Malcolm Gladwell effect. With its pristine cover design and one-word title, Nudge---an engaging jaunt through the field of behavioral economics--- seems at first glance to belong to a certain species of book. Gladwell’s ‘Tipping Point’ ushered in an era of white covers, crisp titles, and catchy anecdotes connected by a thesis: think Wikinomics, Blink, Go. But Nudge has an interesting prospect beneath its slick white cover. Authored by two Univeristy of...
Resource: NRDC Green Enterprise
There's a lot of evidence to suggest that sustainability and business are a good match. We've often said as much. Amid the many voices out there clamoring for businesses to "go greener," however, the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has put out a new resource that may do quite a lot of good. The NRDC Greening Advisor, as this online guidebook is called, is a no-nonsense guide to examining and improving your company's environmental impact. We like that its businesslike...
The Natural Advantage of Nations: Business Opportunities, Innovation and Governance in the 21st Century
by Karlson Hargroves and Michael H. Smith (Earthscan Publications, 2005) Anyone interested in the business of building a bright green future needs to read this book. Itï¿œs an absolutely critical overview of our progress thus far toward sustainability, with 500-plus information-packed pages on whatï¿œs working best; pragmatic examinations of best practices in business and government; issue-wrangling essays on profitable climate solutions, greening the built environment, and sustainable...
Pattern Recognition
by William Gibson (G. P. Putnamï¿œs Sons, 2003) What does it mean to be swimming in a sea of brands, advertisements, and rapid cultural evolution? Gibsonï¿œs novel, a sort of science fiction set in the present, offers us a new lens through which to glimpse the answers to that question. The story itself concerns Cayce Pollard, combination cool-hunter and brand psychic, and her hunt to find the creator of a mysterious series of wildly popular video clips that have surfaced on the Net. But...
Capitalism at the Crossroads: The Unlimited Business Opportunities in Solving the Worldï¿œs Most Difficult Problems
by Stuart L. Hart (Wharton School Publishing, 2005) Stuart Hart makes it clear that there is no inherent conflict between creating a better world and achieving economic prosperity. Global capitalism is at a crossroads, he argues, and ￜcorporations are the only entities in the world today with the technology, resources, capacity, and global reach requiredￜ to create a more sustainable world.
The SRI Advantage: Why Socially Responsible Investing Has Outperformed Financially
by Peter Camejo (New Society Publishers, 2002) Founder of the first environmentally screened fund on Wall Street, Peter Camejo aims to dispel the myth that investing in socially responsible corporations will yield smaller returns than investing in their less-than-responsible counterparts will. ￜIt will come as quite a surprise that [investors] are sacrificing performance to invest in companies that pollute, violate laws and discriminate.ￜ
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