Sustainable Development
Corporate Innovation Is Key to Success
In Slowing Climate Change
By Kurt Repanshek
Innovation requires nimbleness, resourcefulness and the determination to succeed. At times, it can mean going out on a limb to explore a technology that, while it looks good on paper, hasn’t yet proved itself in the field. Read the full article here.
Going Solar
By Adam Browning
Solar energy has been “just around the corner” for the past 60 years, ever since the first photovoltaic (PV) cell was invented in Bell Labs in 1953. Has solar’s moment in the sun finally arrived? There’s a good case to be made that the answer is yes. Read the full article here.
Biofuels’ Bright Future
By Will Thurmond, Emerging Markets Online
Seven years ago, a biofuels revolution was born in Europe from ambitious environmental, energy security and national security policies. Starting with the EU’s Biofuels for Transport initiative in 2002, these revolutionary biofuels policies took root in the U.S. in 2005 with the birth of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) under the Energy Policy
Act. Read the full article here.
Water Management
Water, Water Everywhere?
By G. Tracy Mehan, III
The general consensus among water managers in the U.S. is that it is imperative to adapt to droughts and changing climate patterns regardless of the actual cause. The General Accounting Office surveyed state water managers and found that 36 states anticipated water shortages in the next 10
years. Read the full article here.
Wind Power
Opportunities Energize Major Investment
By Susan H. Burnell
Clean, carbon-free and renewable, wind power is a resource that can energize the future. Already, the U.S. wind power industry has the capacity to power 1.5 million American households. Last year alone, capacity jumped 45%. Read the full article here.
Environmental Advocacy
Sustaining the Earth for Future Generations
By Kurt Repanshek
At present the human race is confronted by the question of its own global legacy. Whether the current generation chooses to live sustainably — conserving its natural resources, nurturing the Earth’s biodiversity and protecting the air and water — will define
the quality of living for future generations.
Read the full article here.
A Climate of Cooperation
Through the EPA’s Climate Leaders program, the nation’s businesses are working together to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
By Lynn Morrissey
In the global effort to reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions, small steps forward can add up to major progress. Read the full article here.
Green Economics
How Environmental Innovation Helps Businesses Succeed
By Kurt Repanshek
We are entering the age of environmental currency. Waste-stream reductions, workplace efficiencies and astute stewardship of lands directly or indirectly bump up the bottom line. Read the full article here.
America’s Energy Coast
Working Toward New Energy and Ecological Sustainability for the
Gulf Coast
By John Hill
With so much attention being paid to U.S. energy policy, it may come as a surprise that the majority of our nation’s offshore energy supply is produced in just four states, known as America’s EnergyCoast. Read the full
article here.
