April 19, 2011 This blog has provided many reasons to go “green”, both for companies, as well as the nation and the world. Here is another that has not been mentioned yet: a serious attempt to go green will spur technical innovation, new inventions, and cut costs on others. We have seen this already with [...]

Feb. 15, 2010 There has been much talk in the last decade or so in the US about people changing their lifestyles to have a more sustainable planet. Polls show the majority of Americans favor this. However, until the recent recession, energy usage (miles driven, electricity use per capita) continued to rise. Most people will [...]

Feb. 7, 2010 One factor that has certainly hurt the US economy, as well as our careers as environmental and climate change professionals has been “outsourcing” or “offshoring”, the move of more manufacturing to faraway, developing nations with labor costs much lower than ours and with more lax environmental rules. The lost time and extra [...]