This is an excerpt from “Small Actions, Big Difference: Leveraging Corporate Sustainability to Drive Business and Societal Value” by CB Bhattacharya, released Oct. 1. Reprinted here…
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I’m not in Madrid this week at COP25 – a.k.a. “Conference of Parties,” the annual gathering at which world leaders discuss a coordinated approach to…
Week in Review Commentary of some of this week’s stories begins at 7:37. Why human health must be at the center of climate action Will…
Never before has the urgency of climate action for ocean health been more pronounced. In September, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its…
Haley Lowry, global sustainability director at Dow, has big plans for plastic. Representing one of the largest plastics producers in the world, she is working…
Engie North America just landed the largest public-private partnership in Iowa’s history, signing a 50-year agreement with the University of Iowa (UI) to manage the…
Two of the most influential companies in producing the guts of information technology — the chips and gadgets underlying the digital economy and cloud services…
Puerto Rico’s electric system is at a crucial inflection point, with an opportunity to pivot from years of hardship — high energy costs, utility bankruptcy,…
Greenhouse gas emissions from corporate supply chains are on average 5.5 times higher than the direct emissions attributed to big businesses, according to a new…
The United Nations General Assembly week in New York in September was a global stock-taking exercise aimed at understanding where the world collectively stands on…
When Lyft announced in November that it would deploy 200 electric vehicles for its rental program in Denver by the end of this year, it…
The most destructive and costliest wildfire in California’s history, the Camp Fire, killed 85 people and destroyed nearly 19,000 structures in November 2018. A year…
Algorithms and chips that proactively can train self-driving cars. Automotive touch screens that use vibrations to help you “feel objects.” Powerful next-generation batteries that are…
Activism is evolving, and technological advances have created new ways for individuals to make change. On social media, the ability to harness the power of…
The Trump administration is looking to finalize its rollback of vehicle efficiency and emission standards by the end of the year. The exact level of…
Waste coffee from McDonald’s is to be turned into new, lightweight car parts under a new partnership announced between the fast food giant and the…
This year’s United Nations Climate Change Summit (COP25) opened in Madrid against a backdrop of mounting urgency. In the last 12 months, the U.N.’s climate…
Thanks to generous feed-in-tariffs and other incentives, Germany’s wind and solar installations have soared over the past two decades to the point that renewables could…
Chandu Visweswariah is founding president and CEO of Utopus Insights, a New York-based energy analytics company acquired last year by Vestas. *** Competitive markets are…
Two contradictory stories about residential storage are coming into focus. The bull case is that this segment of the market just posted two consecutive quarterly…