Posted by Frances Beinecke in Green Enterprise , Solving Global Warming
The New York Times ran an article last Friday about how high costs are slowing down the development of technology that can capture carbon dioxide from coal-fired power plants. What the article doesn’t discuss is the best way to drive...
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
Winston Churchill wrote that “All great things are simple.” Yet in their simplicity, they are often overlooked. I have been thinking about this common blind spot since the Senate began considering the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act recently. When we talk...
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Green Enterprise , Solving Global Warming
You have heard me talk about the economic benefits of passing a global warming law. Now you can get the news from the Department of Energy itself. This week, the DOE’s Energy Information Agency released a report showing that we...
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
For the second time in two weeks, President Bush returned to the Rose Garden to offer outdated ideas on how to manage America’s energy crisis. On April 16, he trotted out a plan for tackling global warming that was weaker...
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Green Enterprise , Solving Global Warming
“Have the dynamics between your industry and environmental NGOs shifted? "What are the hard trade-offs and challenges in forging partnerships between businesses and NGOs?”These are some of the questions posed right now in a forum on the Harvard Business Review’s...
Posted by Frances Beinecke
I recently spent the a month working out of NRDC’s California offices. I am an Easterner by birth and inclination. I feel more at home on the subway than the freeway, the Adirondack woods than the Santa Monica beach. But...
Posted by Frances Beinecke
If you have read this blog in the past, you know I firmly believe we can curb global warming with the help of a long list of clean energy technologies. But a recent article in the New York Times about...
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Green Enterprise , Solving Global Warming
Twenty years ago, when I was fighting to protect coastal areas from overdevelopment, the reigning stereotype of environmentalists was that we never met a regulation we didn’t like. The counterpart to that type-casting was that businesspeople saw every regulation as...
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Green Enterprise , Solving Global Warming
I write a lot on this blog about tackling global warming and expanding green tech. So I wanted to shine a spotlight on a clean energy solution that is rising out of the New Mexican desert right now. Wired reported...
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Green Enterprise , Solving Global Warming
2007 was the year that America’s business pages turned green. Everybody wanted to get into the act. Companies from well-known leaders like Whole Foods and Toyota to historical laggards GM and ExxonMobil were touting their plans to save the planet....
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Green Enterprise , Solving Global Warming
I’ve been staying in California for the last few weeks and one of the people I had hoped to meet out here was Van Jones. Jones is the co-founder of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in Oakland and...
Posted by Frances Beinecke
Five years ago, the only conversations I had about global warming were with other environmentalists. Now I spend most of my time talking about climate change with CEOs from Fortune 500 companies. Increasingly, they realize that confronting global warming presents...
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Green Enterprise , Solving Global Warming
If 2007 was the year that ended the debate over the science of global warming, 2008 is going to be the year when the economics of solving this crisis will take center stage.Of course, the economy is front-and-center anyway, now...
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Green Enterprise , Solving Global Warming
I come from a long line of business people. My father ran a family business that started in 1896. I on the other hand went down a different path and became an environmentalist. Back in 1970, when the very...
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Solving Global Warming
I am in Washington today for meetings. The weather is alright--it’s raining, but warm, probably in the mid-fifties. The air is harder to read, however. As I walked along the sidewalk, I couldn’t tell if I was breathing Republican air...
