Posted by Frances Beinecke in Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
The final sentence in Tom Friedman’s piece from last Sunday’s New York Times has stuck with me this week. Friedman was traveling in Denmark, and he wrote about meeting Ditlev Engel, the president of Vestas, the world’s largest wind turbine...
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Paul Krugman wrote in the New York Times that outrage is the proper response to last week’s Congressional debate on offshore drilling. I agree. It is outrageous that in the face of the combined energy and economic crises, our representatives...
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Earlier this week, Congress blocked the most important green energy incentive America has: the renewable energy tax credit. This incentive for wind, solar, biomass and other sustainable energy sources has been allowed to lapse three different times since 2000. Investors...
Posted by Frances Beinecke in Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
During this summer driving season, two things are crystal clear: 1) Americans are worried about soaring energy prices, and fed up with the lack of solutions and 2) how little leadership we are seeing on the issue from the White...
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...
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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...
