Category: Innovation
Move Over Smokey: We Need Innovation to Save Our Forests—and Corporate Sustainability Leaders Can Help Speed it Up
DroneSeed autonomous reforestation operations By Vincent Caruso and Nancy Pfund, DBL Partners Fire season is here in the northern hemisphere, and it is shaping up to be another gut-wrenching year with 53% of the contiguous U.S. experiencing drought conditions. To be blunt, 20th ...
Direct Air Capture of Carbon Dioxide
By David Sandalow, Julio Friedmann, Colin McCormick and Sean McCoy Concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have reached their highest levels in roughly three million years. Those concentrations continue to climb, year after year. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns of extraordinary risks ...
When Buildings Talk: The Story of Microsoft’s Energy-Smart-Buildings Initiative
By Mohan Reddy Guttapalem, Senior Facilities Manager, Microsoft Every business has a story it tells about itself—a story that doesn’t typically involve its HVAC systems. As building technicians know—in part, so other execs don’t have to—a company’s heating, ventilation, and cooling (HVAC) ...
Your Cities Can Change Our World
By Tim Fleming, Director, Enterprise Sustainability, AT&T Cities account for 60-80% of energy consumption and 75% of carbon emissions on the planet. Because of their population density, cities are also likely to feel the impacts of climate change – including water ...
Kalundborg — The World’s First Fully Functional Industrial Symbiosis
By Neelabh Singh, Partner, Quercus Group Industrial Symbiosis engages diverse organizations in a network to foster eco-innovation and long-term culture change. Creating and sharing knowledge through the network yields mutually profitable transactions for novel sourcing of required inputs and value-added destinations for ...
Why Investing in “Bleeding Edge” Technology Isn’t the Answer to Climate Change
By Jigar Shah, co-founder and President, Generate Capital In clean energy investing, there has been a widespread push around the need for “game changing” innovation to solve climate change. From Bill Gates to Silicon Valley’s richest, we hear about how incremental improvements won’t ...
Transforming Tomorrow: Partners for Global Impact
By Ann Condon and Brandon Owens | Ecomagination As a 130 year old technology company, GE has always believed in progress — in taking risks to improve technology and build a brighter future. From the invention of the first practical incandescent light ...
Why Concentration of the Solar Industry in China Will Stunt Innovation
By Varun Sivaram, Douglas Dillon fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations Earlier this month, the U.S. Commerce Department reviewed its tariffs on imported Chinese solar panels, originally imposed in 2012 in retaliation against Chinese subsidies and below-market pricing, and opted to maintain ...
Carbon Onsetting as an Alternative to Offsetting
By Daniel Greenberg, Founder and CEO, Earth Deeds How can businesses meaningfully respond to their unavoidable CO2 emissions? Traditionally, the only option has been to purchase carbon offset credits on the Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM). These credits represent the CO2 mitigation ...
HP Living Progress Exchange: Coming Together to Solve the World’s Problems
By Gabi Zedlmayer, Vice President and Chief Progress Officer, HPWhat does it look like to create a better future? At HP, it’s a question we ask ourselves every day as we create innovations to address the greatest problems faced by ...