Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit

Finding Ideal Clients Through Networking – Tips For Small Green Businesses

2010-03-11T03:12:05Z

As a marketing tool, networking is a great outlet for making ‘ideal’ connections for small businesses. What’s an ideal connection? Perhaps an analogy will help elucidate the term. You’ve probably heard the following saying: Give a man a fish and you’ve fed him for a day. Teach a man how to fish and you’ve fed him for [...]

Genomics, Next Gen Fuel Cells, Water: Parting thoughts from ECO:nomics

2010-03-11T07:58:59Z

The Wall Street Journal’s third annual ECO:nomics conference: Creating Environmental Capital wrapped up last week and I’m pleased to report that it delivered on the promise of frank, highly strategic, executive-level discussions. The conference will return next year; here’s hoping that we have some new energy and carbon legislation in place by then and that [...]

Global Trade’s Dirty Secret: Outsourced Emissions

2010-03-11T03:13:00Z

The Carnegie Institution of Science released a new study this week finding that one-third of the carbon dioxide emissions developed countries release into the atmosphere result from goods and services produced outside their borders. The report’s details are troubling: Carnegie’s researchers estimate that 2.5 tons of CO2 per person are consumed in the United States but are [...]

The Chasing Arrows Recycling Logo – The Biggest Greenwash Label of Them All?

2010-03-11T08:02:45Z

In recent years, after the initial honeymoon of broader consumer interest in all things green, it’s now settled squarely in the space of “prove it to me.” Yet proving something’s greenness, sustainability, fair trade status, organic certification, carbon footprint has resulted in a dust storm of competing certifications, labels, very few of which are gaining [...]

S4 Breaks Trash Down to Component Atoms, Recombines Using Plasma

2010-03-10T16:20:33Z

Since I’ve been covering Waste Management (WM) over the past few weeks, I couldn’t pass up this most recent news. Waste Management has created a joint venture with InEnTec (introduced previously on TriplePundit), called S4 Energy Solutions LLC, which will develop, market and operate plasma gasification facilities. Last week they announced plans to develop a plasma [...]

JP Morgan Report Says Paperless Office Is Possible

2010-03-10T16:15:35Z

It’s a fact of life that offices use vast quantities of paper. Just add recycling bins, and an office is environmentally friendly, some would say. However, a paperless office is possible, according to a recently released report by JP Morgan. The report, titled Sustainable Treasury Management: It’s Easier Than You Think, mentions JP Morgan’s Go [...]

Study Shows Bright Green Future for Smart Appliances

2010-03-10T16:01:46Z

A new report from research and consulting firm Zpryme describes the growing field of smart appliances as a tremendous market opportunity. It estimates that the global household smart appliance market will grow from $3.06 billion to $15.12 billion over the next five years. In 2015, the global market size for smart washers and smart [...]

Fly the VOC-Friendly Skies?

2010-03-10T05:52:24Z

Celebrating its commitment to the environment, Continental Airlines is giving its planes a makeover, broadcasting its “eco-friendly skies.” Many corporations including Continental are working on reducing their carbon footprint, integrating sustainable practices on their supply chain and distribution channels, and finding alternative sources of energy to fuel their operations. Companies like Google, GE, and Unilever are arguably [...]

Abt Electronics: Best Practices Aligning Value with Values

2010-03-10T05:48:16Z

“No one will ever be mad at you for going green,” says Mike Abt, one of the four brothers who operate Abt Electronics, recognized as one of the nation’s largest consumer electronics merchant. “In the old days they might have thought of me as a hippie.” Mike’s quote captures the very essence of how going [...]

PNW Takes Fast Route to Dirty Truck Cleanup

2010-03-09T15:10:23Z

The struggle to take “dirty” trucks operating in West Coast port areas off the road has been a major rallying cry for ports and environmentalists for at least five years, but the effort is beginning to pay off. The Port of Seattle reports that its voluntary, buy-back incentive clean air program recently saw the 100th dirty [...]

Why Your Cable Guy Might Drive an Electric Vehicle Before You Do

2010-03-10T18:43:30Z

[Update: Ford just announced this morning that AT&T is the lead customer for the Transit Connect Electric. The telecom giant, which plans to spend $565 million to deploy more than 15,000 alternative-fuel vehicles through 2018, will purchase two of the first Ford Transit Connect Electric vans.] Last week, I took an all-electric version of Ford’s Transit [...]

How Carbon Markets Can Deliver Local, Sustainable Development Throughout the World

2010-03-09T06:24:15Z

By Boyd Cohen, co-founder, Kincentricity Social Carbon Carbon trading is a $100+ billion global industry driven largely by the regulated markets in Europe, where most of the offset trading is done on the European Union Trading System (EUTS). The primary tool resulting from the Kyoto Accord for generating offsets for the EUTS is the Clean [...]

Energy Secretary Chu Fields Questions at ECO:nomics

2010-03-09T00:27:03Z

U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu, fresh from the inaugural ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit, was the final and perhaps most anticipated speaker at last week’s ECO:nomics conference. Throughout the conference, regulatory uncertainty had been the greatest complaint of energy execs and venture capitalists alike. In comparison, the recession had up to this point been addressed rather [...]

Emission-Free Delivery in Paris

2010-03-09T16:37:32Z

My memories of working in San Francisco are laced with images of bicycle messengers braving the steep hills and congested streets of the city’s Financial District. Most of the packages were legal documents that were too long to fax and too costly to send by other courier services. Over the past decade, however, the number of bike [...]