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NYT does green-biz special section
Today’s New York Times features a special green business section, highlighting a number of companies and biz leaders who are getting hip to environmentalism. "Friend of Nature? Let’s See Those Shoes" looks at the greening of consumer goods from yogurt to Timbs and gets at the notion that greening makes environmental and economic sense. It’s […]
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Uh, no it doesn’t
News flash: Coca-Cola has responded to consumer demand and is now producing “healthy” beverages. “Diet and light brands are actually health and wellness brands,” Coke’s CEO E. Neville Isdell told The New York Times. He was referring to a new product called Diet Coke Plus, which is Diet Coke plus a few vitamins. Where do […]
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CSM investigates
Mark Clayton at the Christian Science Monitor looks into it. This describes my position quite well: But for those energy experts who have done life-cycle analysis of nuclear power, the big concern is that policymakers may be misled into believing that just because nuclear CO2 emissions are low, the cost of nuclear as an option […]
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Environmental web suckage
I’ve been having fun playing with Compete.com for a while — though as with all these traffic ranking sites, it’s a bit obscure how they come by their numbers. They say it’s "a unique methodology created by experts in the fields of mathematics, statistics and the data sciences to aggregate, transform, enhance and normalize data […]
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Using nuclear power to extract oil
Nuclear plants to generate enough power to extract oil from Canadian tar sands. Makes total sense.
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Umbra on landfills vs. incinerators
Hi Umbra, Is there an environmentally preferable choice between sending your trash to a landfill or an incinerator? I know to think of the three R’s first, but what’s the better way to dispose of the remainder? Incinerators convert waste into energy but generate air pollution. Landfills (ideally) recover and utilize methane but much of […]
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TXU bleg
Rumblings and grumblings are afoot that the big TXU deal is not quite the unqualified victory for environmentalists that some enthusiastic bloggers made it out to be. I have neither the time nor inclination nor knowledge to get into the weeds of finance deals — numbers are not my thing, to put it mildly — […]
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Let’s be clear-eyed about it
This story reminds of a point I’ve been meaning to make. Too often discussions of corporate green initiatives — or just corporate involvement in green matters — devolves into whether it’s "good" or "bad," whether corporations are sincere or greenwashing, whether executives are green at heart or roleplaying with devious motives. It doesn’t really matter. […]
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From a former homeowner
Over on the blog of the popular real estate site Zillow, a former homeowner makes an eloquent case for the joys of city living: Now, we stand face-to-face with people in our building’s elevators, at our corner hangouts, and on the sidewalks. We chitchat and pet our neighbors’ dogs. We exchange “good mornings” with the […]
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