Some of the recent conversations here have touched on the idea of geoengineering, i.e., taking pro-active steps to mitigate the greenhouse gas problem more aggressively than simply cutting emissions. This is a hot topic, if I may use the pun, …
Tag: sustainability
From Guest-blogger Kimgerly — Does Addressing the TBL in VC Circles Incorporate Sustainability Development?
Most of the citizens of Earth understand humanity is approaching limits. In the EU, a great deal of companies understand they have a responsibility and ability to exert positive change on the world’s economy, environmental and social conditions. In terms …
2GreenEnergy – Checking Out Sustainability-Related Businesses on the East Coast
Sorry to have been absent from the blogosphere for a bit here. Thursday I was standing in a dairy in Northern Virginia surrounded by hundreds of cows — checking out a methane digester, talking about waste-to-energy, and how feed-in tariffs …
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Tagged with: East Coast, electric transportation, electric trucks, EVs, methane digester, sustainability, waste-to-energy
Biofuels, Sustainability and the Amazon Rain Forest
I know I’m not alone in my mistrust of the media. Yet I have to think that Time Magazine nailed the biofuels issue in their 2008 article on sustainability and the Amazon rain forest. Particularly telling is the revolting political …
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Political Philosophy and Sustainability
Occasionally I like to write a short piece that offers my viewpoints on political philosophy as it applies to sustainability, examining the nature of our moral obligations to our fellow human beings. To what degree do our ethical sensibilities call …
Sustainability and Purity of Intention
In response to my recent piece on sustainability, a friend of a friend whose name I won’t use writes: Thanks for the link, but sustainability can come only after one gets a business started. Day 1 you receive the money, …
How Will Various Demographic Groups Embrace Sustainability?
Frequent guest blogger Arlene Allen notes that there are demographic groups that will embrace sustainability differently. She points out… There are financially secure people who can afford anything, and will simply buy an electric car when they want one, …. …
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2GreenEnergy Competitors
I was out with my kids just now, and my teenage son asked me: “Dad, who are your competitors in the 2GreenEnergy stuff you’re doing?” That’s an interesting question – certainly a natural one when wanting to know more about …
Tagged with: 2GreenEnergy, alternative energy, clean energy, green business, Renewable Energy, sustainability
Do Sustainable Business Practices Appear Expensive? Look to Biomimicry
I’ve noticed that discussions of sustainability generally boil down to cost, e.g.: 1) Do the additional costs of green products pass muster with consumers? 2) Should the government take us further into debt to fund green R&D and to create …
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Renewable Energy in the Mainstream – More
I wanted to write a follow-on to yesterday’s post on Renewable Energy in the Mainstream. From a business perspective, will there be people who become fantastically wealthy from the migration to renewables — and from sustainability more generally? You bet. …
Tagged with: alternative energy, clean energy, green energy, mainstream, Renewable Energy, solar energy, solar panel, solar power, sustainability
