Hacking The Auto X-Prize
Monday, April 6th, 2009 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffThe Progressive Automotive X-Prize is the latest high-profile contest from the folks who kick-started space tourism with the original X Prize. The goal of the Auto X Prize is "To inspire a new generation of ...
A Month’s Worth of Blogging, Condensed into a Single Column
Friday, April 3rd, 2009 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffIt's been a crazy month, with talks to give and essays and books to write, and money to raise, and I've really fallen behind in blogging. So here's a month's worth of things I've been meaning ...
Graphic Series: Earthly Ideas, Biochar
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffThis week's cartoon describes biochar -- a product that can be made from agricultural waste and other organic material. Biochar, which mimics the charcoal component in a rich black soil called terra preta created by indigenous ...
Corporate Political Transparency: The Green Business Rating We Really Need
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffMuch is made of various measurements of corporate progress towards sustainability: Company X has reduced its carbon footprint by 10 percent, Company Y has introduced a line of recycled products, Company Z will offer new and ...
Reader Report: Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffBy Kristin Hayden I've just returned from a very inspiring three days in Oxford, England, at the 2009 Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship. This annual mega-event for the world's leading social entrepreneurs was started by Jeff ...
Shepard Fairey: Notes Toward an Affirmative Art
Friday, March 27th, 2009 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffIn the 1980s, about the time Shepard Fairey took up skateboarding in a big way, Abigail Solomon Godeau published an article called “The Armed Vision Disarmed: Radical Formalism from Weapon to Style.” The ...
Shepard Fairey: Notes Toward an Affirmative Art
Friday, March 27th, 2009 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffIn the 1980s, about the time Shepard Fairey took up skateboarding in a big way, Abigail Solomon Godeau published an article called “The Armed Vision Disarmed: Radical Formalism from Weapon to Style.” The ...
Open Intellectual Property as Sustainability Accelerator
Friday, March 27th, 2009 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffIt's the job of the world's poor to get rich, and the job of the world's rich to redefine wealth. That is, the biggest task facing the developing world is development and human well-being, while the ...
Green:Net on SmartGrids, Hurdles and the New Networked Car
Thursday, March 26th, 2009 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffBy Mary Catherine O'Connor At Earth2Tech's Green:Net technology conference Tuesday in San Francisco, Jesse Berst, managing director of Global Smart Energy, asserted that the smart grid is not nearly as difficult to define as many make it ...
Heirloom Design
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffCan we live sustainably while still enjoying our stuff? Buying better stuff (and less of it), and keeping it for longer is one realistic strategy for making that possible. But we know that won't work with ...
The Wall Street Crowd and the Transparency Revolution
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffThere is a great cluelessness afoot in this land. It's padding around in Europe and Asia as well, but here in the U.S., it's staggering around with giant clomping feet, and its favorite stomping grounds are ...
Worldchanging Interview: Amory Lovins
Monday, March 23rd, 2009 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffAmory Lovins is a bright green visionary. Lovins and the nonprofit Rocky Mountain Institute he leads have set pace of the debate on a number of critical innovations, from green building to hybrid cars, for almost ...
Worldchanging Interview: Amory Lovins
Monday, March 23rd, 2009 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffAmory Lovins is a bright green visionary. Lovins and the nonprofit Rocky Mountain Institute he leads have set pace of the debate on a number of critical innovations, from green building to hybrid cars, for almost ...
Artists, Foreclosures and the Ruins of the Unsustainable
Thursday, March 19th, 2009 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffI've been waiting for a story like this to pop up, so when I heard it on the radio yesterday I geeked out a bit. As NPR's Jennifer Guerra reports, artists in Detroit are buying up ...
Artists, Foreclosures and the Ruins of the Unsustainable
Thursday, March 19th, 2009 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffI've been waiting for a story like this to pop up, so when I heard it on the radio yesterday I geeked out a bit. As NPR's Jennifer Guerra reports, artists in Detroit are buying up ...
Graphic Series: Earthly Ideas, Ocean Harvester
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffThis week's cartoon describes the Ocean Harvester, a device designed to help capture clean energy from ocean waves. You can read more about the Ocean Harvester in Tyler Seed's article, Harvesting the Ocean: A New Approach ...
Training the Green Collar Workforce: A Role for Community Colleges
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffBy Xarissa Holdaway President Obama's appointment of Van Jones’s as Green Jobs Adviser to the White House Council on Environmental Quality seems startlingly à propos, especially on the heels of Power Shift ’09, — a major ...
Training the Green Collar Workforce: A Role for Community Colleges
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffBy Xarissa Holdaway President Obama's appointment of Van Jones’s as Green Jobs Adviser to the White House Council on Environmental Quality seems startlingly à propos, especially on the heels of Power Shift ’09, — a major ...
Too Big to Fail? Think Again.
Sunday, March 15th, 2009 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffClay Shirky, makes an excellent point about the collapse of newspapers, which could just as easily apply to a host of other North American industries that are so unwilling to even consider the possibility that times ...
Worldchanging Interview: Ethan Schaffer on Powershift 2009
Monday, March 9th, 2009 Posted in Columns, Green News | Comments OffLast week, I caught up with Worldchanging ally Ethan Schaffer, Director of Major Gifts and Grants at Northwest-based nonprofit Climate Solutions, to talk about his recent participation in Power Shift 2009. The epic event featured four ...