Suntech’s Shi Zhengrong built one of the world’s biggest solar-power companies. Now, with economies slowing, he faces the challenge of a lifetime. A few brief points from this article in the March 2009 Fortune Small Business by Bill Powell: (Fortune … Continued
LONDON (Reuters) – Climate change kills about 315,000 people a year through hunger, sickness and weather disasters, and the annual death toll is expected to rise to half a million by 2030, a report said on Friday. The study, commissioned … Continued
There’s a lot of interest in the fact that many electronic devices in our homes are using energy even while they are turned off or not being used. But, how much money do these energy vampires really suck up? For … Continued
JENNINGS, La. — For decades, the big oil companies and the farm lobby have been fighting about ethanol, with the farmers pushing to produce more of it and the refiners arguing it was a boondoggle that would do little to … Continued
It’s not enough that consumers are already being forced to buy ethanol-blended gasoline that yields worse mileage and offers, at best, questionable environmental benefits. Now ethanol producers want to increase the legal limit on the amount of their product in … Continued
President Obama says investing in a “green economy” can create 5 million jobs in the next 10 years. How? The answer may lie in Germany. The country that is home to Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen is on its way to making … Continued
I’m not sure what is scarier: global warming or the 932-page cap-and-trade bill that purports to save us from life in an oven. You’d think Leo Tolstoy wrote it. Washington makes things incomprehensible to create hiding places for special-interest groups. … Continued
People are very entrenched in the way they do their laundry,” says Adam Lowry, the co-founder and chief “greenskeeper” at Method. And that’s a problem, as we’ll explain in a moment. Method is an 8-year-old company that makes “environmentally-friendly cleaning … Continued
The American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment (AIA-COTE) has announced its Top Ten Green Projects for 2009. Full profiles of these projects are available at www.aiatopten.org and at www.buildinggreen.com. Charles Hostler Student Center: An athletic facility and gathering … Continued
DETROIT (Reuters) – The tough U.S. fuel economy standards announced by President Barack Obama on Tuesday represents a bonanza for companies that supply hybrid technology and other gas-conserving components needed to meet the new benchmarks. Potential winners range from established … Continued
