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Investors managing more than $2.3 trillion urged the government on Tuesday to enact strict laws to cut greenhouse gas emissions, saying lax regulation could hurt the competitiveness of U.S. companies.

In the forested Northeast, where I live, you occasionally come across big stands of red pine. They’re wonderful trees–jigsaw puzzle bark, a gorgeous hue against snow or blue sky–but if you know the history, they have another meaning, too, just as sweet. Red pine are a fairly rare native species in this area, but they were one of the trees of choice for the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in the 1930s. They grow straight; they make good phone poles. For whatever set of silvicultural reasons, there are a lot of these groves of 70-year-old trees. Every time I wander through one, I think of Franklin Roosevelt and try to imagine the crews that came out to plant them.

Watching the news and reading the popular press you’d think that the interest in organic products is so high that simply making your idea for a new product a reality ensures success. Not so fast.
One of the biggest fallacies in popular folklore is:
“Make a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your [...]

There, Green Computing isn’t a save-the-planet-for-our-kids movement. It’s about the other green: cutting operating costs as the demand for computing power soars. It’s a movement grounded in measurable, near-term results. “The top priority at hand is data center efficiency,” says Sabet Elias, CTO of investment bank Lehman Brothers, which last year boosted energy efficiency 25% and set a goal of another 35% by next year.

What was YOUR reaction to those pictures of the new flagship Primark store in Oxford Street being mobbed by hungry shoppers?
Did you wish you were there bagging a bargain? Or did you find the whole thing an extraordinary example of Britain’s obsession with shopping?
If your answer is the latter, you are in influential company. [...]

TOKYO, Aug. 20 (AP) - (Kyodo)—The farm ministry aims to support projects by businesses and local governments to recycle disposable chopsticks as solid fuel or ethanol, ministry officials said Monday.The aim is to promote the use of biomass fuel as well as raise public awareness about the need to conserve resources through a recycling program [...]

If you hang out a lot of the web, you probably have heard about the $1 million page. Its principle is dead simple: the page features 1 million pixels and allows you to book your tiny pixel-size ad for $1. Tree-Nation technique is comparable yet with a more citizen spirit. Instead of pixels, you support [...]

Lurking in your walls, in your attic and basement, all around you are power leaks that are costing you money and impacting the environment.  Don’t know what to do?  No worries, call the Green Ghost Busters, Sustainable Spaces, Inc. of San Francisco, CA.  Armed with an arsenal of hi-tech gadgets, Sustainable Spaces, with CEO Matt [...]

Beyond Grey Pinstripes spotlight innovative full-time MBA programs that are integrating issues of social and environmental stewardship into curricula and research.  See the top 100 green MBA programs below.

A complete explanation of the methodology behind the rankings can be found on the Methodology page.
To see our past rankings, download PDFs of our past Beyond [...]

Ash Upadhyaya is no tree hugger. The 29-year-old from India has a master’s degree in petroleum engineering, worked as a reservoir engineer at Shell Oil and drives a Porsche Boxster that gets a measly 20 miles per gallon. Yet he has spent the past two years studying environmentally sustainable business at the Stanford Graduate School [...]

That’s one of the major findings of the recently-released 2007 National Technology Readiness Survey (NTRS), sponsored by the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, and research firm Rockbridge Associates, Inc. This is good news for ecopreneurs, especially since the survey also notes that many consumers want to buy “green tech” products, but [...]

So far the industry sector that includes clean, renewable and efficient energy has been holding up well under continuing bad news from just about every other segment of the US economy. Green energy stands out as a bright spot in an otherwise cloudy economic picture.
There’s a long list of good reasons for the strength of [...]

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RE <c stands for “Renewable Energy.” The < is indeed the mathematical symbol for “less than.” The C stands for coal. Renewable Energy Less Than Coal. RE<C is Google’s latest answer to global warming. Coal is just too darn cheap for the world to kick the habit quick enough. Well then, let’s make clean energy [...]