Top Five 2010 News Stories and The Emerging Sustainable Economy
Here’s the top five 2010 news stories based upon Pew Research, Project for Excellence in Journalism: Economy 2010 Elections BP Oil Spill Healthcare Afghanistan. My environmentalist friends will be...
View ArticleBuy Local Sustainability: A Solution To Food and Fuel Price Inflation
The Federal Reserve reports no inflation. That conclusion is being lost on consumers. Here’s what they are feeling in their pocket book: Gasoline prices have risen from below $2.50 in 2009 to...
View ArticleSmart Phone Apps For Adopting Sustainability, Healthy Living and Going Green
The smartphone and smartphone app is emerging as the “revolutionary gun” in the adoption of sustainability by consumers. I was having dinner the other night with a senior market research executive...
View ArticleAPI Report: Gasoline Consumption Going UP With Higher Prices Highlights The...
The American Petroleum Institute (API) reports a SURGE in gasoline deliveries at the very time gasoline prices are also surging. Can there be any better example that the United States must invest in...
View ArticleRelative Strength: Price Of Sustainability Vs. Price of Unsustainable Products
Relative strength is a way of evaluating investments like stocks based upon “the speed and change of price movements.” It measures price momentum. The idea is to pick investments that have more...
View ArticleSupply Chain Volatility Is Global Mega Trend: Relative Strength Of...
Supply chain disruption is now the new norm. This mega trend is creating a new and higher degree of risk and costs for businesses around the world. Here’s just a few examples: Beijing China now faces...
View ArticleNell Newman of Newman’s Own Organics
Nell Newman of Newman’s Own Organics is one of those people who earn your attention with her presence and message. Daughter of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward she has her father’s captivating blue eyes...
View ArticleSolar Price Fall Equals $10 Oil Prices!
Bloomberg reports that “If oil prices fell from their 2008 peak as far as solar component prices have, a barrel of oil would cost about $10 – a 93 percent drop.” The fall in price of cleantech and the...
View ArticleHow DuPont Reduced Landfill Waste From 81 Million Pounds to Zero!
DuPont’s Building Innovations business unit, maker of Corian and Tyvek, has successfully cut its annual landfill waste stream from 81 million pounds to zero. Dave Walter, America Business Manager and a...
View ArticleWalmart Five Step Sustainability Process
Walmart CEO Mike Duke’s and his management team re-enforced their commitment to sustainability in an April 18, 2012 meeting conducted before Walmart’s corporate management team and broadcast to Walmart...
View ArticleAuto Industry Drives Toward Sustainable Profits
The auto industry has stopped waiting for governments to enact energy policy. Responding to their customers’ concerns on pump prices and emissions the auto industry is taking the initiative by...
View ArticleHow To Win Millennial Generation Customers Through Content Marketing
The top four business buzzwords used today define how sustainable businesses are winning millennial generation customers. These four key buzzwords (in order) are: Content Social Sustainability...
View ArticleDemographic Tumult Drives Emerging Sustainable Economy
A demographic tumult is pushing America toward a sustainable economy. This demographic tumult is the nexus of an aging boomer generation, the emergence of the millennial generation as America’s...
View ArticleOperating Your Business In A Carbon Surge Economy
Your business now operates within a carbon surge economy. The surge in carbon emissions is rapidly raising your business risks and the cost of doing business. Extreme weather tied to carbon surge is...
View ArticleHow 2014 Oil Price Collapse Threatens Sustainability
1980 was the last time we had an oil price collapse. Americans buying fuel efficient vehicles created the 1980 oil price collapse just as they have contributed toward today’s oil price collapse. But...
View ArticleWrite A Winning Elevator Speech
Having a green business plan is mission critical if your company is going to grow revenues in the global green economy that has leaped in less than a decade to multi-trillions of dollars in annual...
View ArticleHow To Write A Green Business Plan
Business plan success in today’s multi-trillion dollar green economic revolution is determined by how successfully it fulfills the customer’s search for products that align value with values. If you...
View ArticleSolar Is Getting Weird
The California solar homeowners I work with are acting pretty “weird” compared to the rest of America. This summer when the rest of America will be keeping their thermostats set at higher than desired...
View ArticleSustainability Professionals Need To Act Weird
On this Earth Day 2015 I want to recognize and challenge the dedicated community of sustainability professionals. What these talented people have achieved over the last ten years is historic. From...
View ArticleCustomers Are Driving Electric Utility Disruption
The sustainably sourced guaranteed lower electric bill is the true disruptive challenge confronting electric utilities and their regulators. Competitors like Elon Musk are offering it. Utilities are...
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