There is no waste in nature. The output of every biological process is the input for another, and this is true whether we are talking about leaves falling, animals eliminating, skins being shed from snakes, feathers molting from birds, or …
Tag: corporate sustainability
Corporate Sustainability and Social Responsibility (CSR) Programs Have Taken It On the Jaw
Long-time reader Bill O’Hearn sent me two wonderful articles he wrote on corporate sustainability that I offer here and here. He makes some really good and unassailable points, namely, that the recent criminality in the private sector, especially the cases …
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Will Solar Eat Its Own Lunch?
Here’s an article that explores what happens when the penetration of solar PV into the grid mix is so large that it begins to create an over-supply, thus driving the price down for incremental amounts of energy generated from this …
Corporate Sustainability, Industrial/Commercial Real Estate
I’m proud to announce that we’ve added a new 2GreenEnergy “Associate” — Kevin Cullina (pictured here in casual attire), whose career I describe as follows: “Applying the Principles of Corporate Sustainability to Industrial and Commercial Real Estate.” Kevin’s relationship with …
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University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) vs. University of Southern California (USC) Tonight – Hurray for Whomever
I happened to meet a wonderful couple earlier this afternoon at a restaurant that featured the UCLA/USC game on a television screen. When, during a pause in our conversation, the wife caught me glancing upward and asked me whom I …
Norfolk Southern: Making a Commitment to Corporate Sustainability
I had the pleasure of speaking with Norfolk Southern’s corporate sustainability officer, Blair Wimbush, just now. One of our interns who documents role models in corporate sustainability had done a nice piece on Norfolk Southern, a large freight railway operating …
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Dow Chemical and Corporate Sustainability
This morning, Rebecca McKenzie, one our most talented and hard-working interns, joined me in an hour-long telephone interview with three spokespeople from the Dow Chemical Company on the subject of corporate sustainability. I’ll link to a transcript of the interview …
Paradigm Shift in Personal Mobility
At yesterday’s conference at UCLA — The Financial Implications of Going Green — I happened to sit in front of a graduate student in corporate sustainability – I forget the exact name of her program. When I asked what she was learning, she told …
Corporate Role Models — Focusing on Sustainability
Soon we’ll be getting started with a blog that I propose to call “Corporate Role Models,” in which we herald some of the good things corporate citizens are doing in lowering carbon footprint, and aiming at sustainability more generally. We’re …
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Corporate Sustainability Initiatives Deserve Our Praise
When we look at some of the bad actors in Corporate America, it’s possible to reason that nothing good – in the ethical sense – even comes from this quarter. But this is a horribly shortsighted and unfair conclusion. Of …
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