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Can sustainable investing beat the markets?

October 20, 2010 by Marc Gunther
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This week, Newsweek released its second annual  Green Rankings of the largest companies in America, as well as a new analysis of big global corporations. These sorts of cross-industry comparisons of companies are difficult to do, but my sense is that Newsweek has done a credible job, with the help of partners MSCI ESG Research,... [read more]

HP’s green evangelist

September 29, 2010 by Marc Gunther
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Recycling electronics at HP Hewlett Packard, the world’s biggest technology company, ships 3.5 products per second.* That’s a lot of printers, cartridges, computers, servers, handheld devices, etc. No tech company–not even Google–is more important to the health of the planet. Fortunately, HP takes sustainability seriously. HP topped... [read more]

Newsweek Gets Coal Terribly Wrong

April 12, 2010 by Joseph Romm
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Daniel Stone published a dreadful piece on coal and energy over at Newsweek’s The Gaggle called “West Virginia Mine Disaster Unlikely to Affect National Energy Debate.”  Guest blogger JW Randolph of Appalachian Voices, debunks it fully in this WR repost. David Roberts at Grist responded to Energy Committee Staffer Bill Wicker for... [read more]

Newsweek: Copenhagen R.I.P

December 21, 2009 by Jesse Jenkins
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Originally at the Breakthrough Institute Newsweek's senior science writer Sharon Begley doesn't mince words in her post-mortem on Copenhagen. Declaring "Good Riddance to Copenhagen," Begley writes:That sound you'll hear in 2010 is a can being kicked down the road. Again. In the wake of the failure of the international negotiations in... [read more]

The must-read solutions book — “Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis” by Al Gore.

November 1, 2009 by Joseph Romm
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The long-awaited sequel to An Inconvenient Truth comes out Tuesday.  If you want a preview, Gore and the book are featured in an excellent Newsweek cover story, The Thinking Man’s Thinking Man. In September, Nature Reports Climate Change asked me (and several others) to suggest three books to read ahead of the Copenhagen... [read more]

FedEx: Pushing the envelope on sustainability

October 22, 2009 by Marc Gunther
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When you need to ship a package, how do you choose between FedEx and UPS? Their services are similar, if not identical. While I’ve never compared prices, I assume they are roughly equivalent. Could the company’s sustainability practices come into play? I’m told that they do, for select customers. Their employees care as well–people want... [read more]

Why IT companies top Newsweek's green 500

September 30, 2009 by David Tebbutt
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Hats off to Newsweek for its green rankings of the 500 largest US corporations. And congratulations to Hewlett Packard for coming first.Hang on... Hewlett Packard came out top? Surely a software company or some other organisation that is inherently more environmentally friendly should have topped the list? Yet four of the top five are... [read more]

Greenest Companies in America

September 22, 2009 by Doris de Guzman
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September seems to be the month of who's who and top rankings. ICIS Chemical Business (the company I work for) released last week its Top 100 Chemical Companies; Cleantech Group and the Guardian had its list of 100 global clean technology companies; the International Fuel Quality Center (IFQC) updated its ranking of the top 100... [read more]

Newsweek’s Science Editor explains why climate change is “even worse than we feared” and how “a consensus has developed during IPY that the Greenland ice sheet will disappear.”

August 5, 2009 by Joseph Romm
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Among the phrases you really, really do not want to hear from climate scientists are: “that really shocked us,” “we had no idea how bad it was,” and “reality is well ahead of the climate models.” Yet in speaking to researchers who focus on the Arctic, you hear comments like these so regularly they begin to sound like the thumping... [read more]

Newsweek smart grid article

August 4, 2009 by Lynne Kiesling
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Last week Newsweek had an article on smart grid investments and projects that provides a good overview, focusing on the newly-funded Department of Energy demonstration projects. Many of you will already know more about these than the details provide in the article, but it’s a good overview if you don’t.   [read more]