Posted by Jon Coifman
Presidential candidates have been out and about this week talking about their respective plans to create thousands of new “green collar” jobs. It’s the right idea, but the wrong way to talk about it. Building the clean, sustainable, energy efficiency...
Posted by Jon Coifman in Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment
In a closed door session recently, General Motors product development chief and granddaddy of Detroit automotive management Bob Lutz announced to a group of reporters in Dallas that global warming is “a crock of sh*t”.Yes, this is the very same...
Posted by Jon Coifman in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Greening China , Solving Global Warming
Mark your calendars, folks. This is the week that China starts exporting wind turbines to the United States. According to the Wall Street Journal’s energy blog, Mingyang Wind Power Technology Co., Ltd., has inked it’s first American deal for...
Posted by Jon Coifman in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , The Media and the Environment
Don't be alarmed on your way to work if the Hummer in the next lane is being driven by a chicken. Two animal rights groups have launched high-visibility campaigns arguing that eating meat causes more global warming pollution than your...
Posted by Jon Coifman in Green Enterprise , Moving Beyond Oil
This one will go down in the corporate PRrecord books. As noticed in the trade press by our friends over at Consumerist, somebody at Range Rover -- a Ford Motor Company brand -- thought it would be a good idea...
Posted by Jon Coifman in Green Enterprise
I did an interview Sunday night with a nationally syndicated columnist writing about an argument put forth in Grist (www.grist.org) and that I cannot now find, saying essentially that groups like NRDC which are working with Wal-Mart on various greening initiatives...
