Features By Jim Nicolow

Pages

4

Big Three selling jets, but just inching toward efficiency

It looks like it's not just a buyer's market for automobiles, but for corporate jets....
Posted In: Chrysler, efficiency, Ford, GM
8

Both candidates tout "Clean Coal" -- but it doesn't exist!

Holy crap. Is the onslaught of "clean coal" internet ads driving anyone else nuts? You can't open a news website without being subjected to...
Posted In: 2030 Blueprint, clean coal
6

EcoBroker standards: got transparency?

Sarah Gardner reported on the EcoBroker Program this afternoon on Marketplace. The program attempts to address two critical issues in combating...
Posted In: EcoBroker, green building, standards
1

The bailout plan and prospects for renewable energy

Sustainable thinking often requires the luxury of a long term perspective: If you don't have fuel to prepare the evening's meal, whether the...
Posted In: bailout, Michigan, renewable energy
8

On green one-upmanship at the DNC and RNC

Both the Democrats and Republicans appear to be scrambling in a game of one-upmanship to host "the greenest national convention ever." While that...
Posted In: conferences, Democrats, DNC, policy, Republicans, RNC
5

Is KB Home commiting a "random act of greenness"?

Joel Makower reflects upon the evolving definition of greenwash in a recent post titled, "How Bad is Greenwashing, Really?" He explains how...
Posted In: Energy Star, greenwash, KB Home
0

Shell gets a greenwash smackdown

GreenBiz.com reports that greenwash complaints in the U.K. quadrupled last year....
Posted In: clean coal, ExxonMobil, Shell
7

Buying green to avert global warming is like #%*&ing for chastity

Michael Pollan's latest piece in the New York Times Magazine, "Why Bother?" tells us why we should bother....
Posted In: buying green, gardening, Michael Pollan
2

Greenwashing is a gateway drug

In Amy Westervelt's recent Sustainable Industries interview with L. Hunter Lovins, Lovins makes the case that greenwashing is good. "Hypocrisy is...
Posted In: architecture, building, GE, Lovins, marketing
9

Ecopods are burying the greenwash

Did you ever hear that joke -- that the quickest way to significantly reduce your environmental footprint is to die?...
Posted In: burials, footprint

Pages