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Efficiency: The Global Warming Solution Hiding in Plain Sight

May 16, 2008

Posted by Frances Beinecke in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
energyefficiency, globalwarming, greenenergy, liebermanwarner, markettransformation, mckinsey, solvingglobalwarming

 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...continued

What Do We Want to Stimulate?

February 5, 2008

Posted by Frances Beinecke

Tags:
andrewrevkin, billclinton, economy, energyefficiency, EPA, globalwarming, mckinsey

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...continued

Global Warming, the Economy, and the Get Out of Jail Free Card

January 24, 2008

Posted by Frances Beinecke in Green Enterprise , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
alcoa, dukeenergy, economy, energyefficiency, EPA, ford, GE, globalwarming, GM, lehmannbrothers, liebermanwarner, mckinsey, solarpower, stimuluspackage, USCAP

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...continued

Protecting the Earth and Promoting the Economy

December 6, 2007

Posted by Frances Beinecke in Green Enterprise , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
cleantech, energyfuture, globalwarming, JeffImmelt, LeeScott, markettransformation, mckinsey, vinodkhosla

   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...continued