ARTICLES

 Earth’s Climate Needs the Help of Incentives
NY Times
March 28, 2007
Opinion piece from the Business section
By DAVID LEONHARDT
www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/business/28leonhardt.html?_r=1&ref=business&oref=slogin

 UNLOCKING CLEAN, CHEAP ENERGY
Keay Davidson
The SF Chronicle
March 6, 2007
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/06/MNG71OG4O01.DTL&type=science
California scientists look to ethanol, solar arrays and 1800s engine for answers. Nanotech solar cells, the world's largest planned solar-electricity plant and new technologies for breeding biofuels like ethanol are among the brighter prospects on the energy research front in the Bay Area and the Golden State.

 SALES OPEN FOR NYC GREEN CONDO TOWER
SustainableBusiness.com
Feb 07, 2007
http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/features/feature_template.cfm?ID=1418
The offering plan for New York's newest green residential tower — a 35-story, 251-unit condo tower called The Visionaire — has been accepted and filed with the New York State Attorney General's office, enabling the opening of sales on March 1.

 BofA BANKS $20 BILLION TO GROW GREEN ECONOMY
GreenBiz.com
Mar. 6, 2007
http://www.greenbiz.com/news/news_third.cfm?NewsID=34688
Under an ambitious new initiative announced by Bank of America, the financial institution will direct $20 billion to help its corporate, individual and small-business customers take advantage of the business opportunities created by green economic growth.

 EVEN THE BIGGEST BOXES CAN GO GREEN
Terry Slavin
Source: Green Futures
http://www.greenbiz.com/news/reviews_third.cfm?NewsID=34594
The man who builds Wal-Mart's massive retail outlets is going against the grain by working from an "eco-template" that saves energy and water and dramatically reduces greenhouse gas emissions.

 VENTURE CAPITALISTS WANT TO PUT SOME ALGAE IN YOUR TANK
By CLIFFORD KRAUSS
The NY Times
March 7, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/07/business/07algae.html?ref=environment
Algae may be slime to the average person, but to some venture capitalists it is the path to energy independence.

 $45 BILLION TXU DEAL IS AN ENVIRONMENTAL WATERSHED
By Andrew Ross Sorkin
The NY Times
February 26, 2007
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/26/business/txu.php
DALLAS: TXU, the largest power producer in Texas, agreed Monday to be sold to a group of private equity firms in a deal valued at $45 billion. It was a watershed deal not just for its size, but for its confluence of business decisions and environmental concerns, as well as a vow by the buyers to cut residential electricity prices.

 EVOLUTION, NO, REVOLUTION NEEDED IN THE AUTO INDUSTRY.
Green Energy News
March 2, 2007
http://www.nrglink.com/arch/nrgs2007/20070030.html
The oil war in Iraq, lakes forming under Antarctic glaciers, a steadily sinking US auto industry, a crash in global stock markets and a lackluster US economy: All the worries are there for a major global meltdown. But all those frightening cards could be turned upside down - the brighter side up - too.

 A WARMING WORLD — AS WARNINGS GROW MORE DIRE, NOBELIST EMERGES AS LEADER
Rick DelVecchio
March 5, 2007
The SF Chronicle
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/05/MNG18OFHF41.DTL&type=science
As warnings grow more dire, Nobelist emerges as leader. The director of Lawrence Berkeley lab is pushing his scientists and industry to develop technologies to reverse climate change.

 GLITZ AND GOOGLE — TECH TITAN TOSSES A-LIST BASH FOR X-PRIZE FOUNDATION
By Catherine Bigelow
March 5, 2007
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/05/DDGFOOEF4C1.DTL&hw=google&sn=001&sc=1000
Forget global domination of the Internet.
If Google Inc. can provide heated toilet seats for its almost 7,000 employees at Googleplex world headquarters, then it's a cinch that Google is well suited to help save humanity.

 100 LEADING COLLEGES GRADED: SUSTAINABILITY REPORT CARD RELEASED
SustainableBusiness.com
Feb 26, 2007
http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/features/feature_template.cfm?ID=1423
The College Sustainability Report Card grades 100 leading colleges on their campus greening practices and endowment policies. It includes Ivy League and Big 10 schools, and other top public and private colleges. Only four institutions received an "A": Harvard University, Stanford University, Dartmouth College, and Williams College. 22 schools earned a "B", 54 earned a "C", and 20 earned a "D."

 YOUTHS MOBILIZE ON GLOBAL WARMING
SustainableBusiness.com
Feb 07, 2007
http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/features/feature_template.cfm?ID=1419
In the largest youth mobilization on global warming to date, over 50,000 students at 575 college and high school campuses across the U.S. and Canada organized events January 29-February 2 calling for immediate solutions to deal with climate change.

 BREATHING EASIER AS THE BATTLE FOR GREEN SKIES PAYS OFF
By THOMAS FULLER
Bangkok Journal
March 6, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/06/world/asia/06thai.html?ref=environment
BANGKOK — Black smoke billowing from tailpipes into the humid, tropical air was once a Bangkok trademark. But a decade and a half after Thailand began a battle for better air quality, this erstwhile icon of smog has emerged as a role model for pollution-choked capitals in Asia, with considerably cleaner air than Beijing, Jakarta, New Delhi and Shanghai.

 ENERGY DEPARTMENT FUNDS 6 CELLULOSIC ETHANOL PLANTS
Environmental News Service
March 5, 2007
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/mar2007/2007-03-05-09.asp#anchor3
The Department of Energy, DOE, will invest up to $385 million for six biorefinery projects over the next four years. When fully operational, the biorefineries are expected to produce more than 130 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol per year. Cellulosic ethanol is made not from food crops such as corn, but from agricultural waste, yard waste, trees, forest residues, and perennial grasses.

 SMALL VILLAGE IN GREECE ILLUSTRATES PROBLEMS OF COAL
Residents get little help from the EU
By Niki Kitsantonis
The International Herald Tribune
February 28, 2007
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/28/news/greece.php
Akrini is a village in northern Greece peopled by the descendants of refugees who fled their homes near the Black Sea when war broke out with Turkey early in the last century. Now the villagers want to flee again.

 THE CARBON FOLLY
By Emily Flynn Vencat
Newsweek
March 12, 2007 issue
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17435875/site/newsweek
Policymakers have settled on 'emissions trading' as their favorite global-warming fix. But it isn't working.

 THE BUILDINGS OF TOMORROW
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2_archive/2006/11/01
Business 2.0. 11/1/06.
Visionary architect William McDonough is making the boomtown environmentally friendly - from Google's headquarters to China's cities.

 LIGHTING UP THE $1 TRILLION POWER MARKET
http://money.cnn.com/2006/10/26/business2/solar_siliconvalley.biz2
Business 2.0. 10/26/06
Silicon Valley has changed the world once. Now, thanks to a wave of investment and innovation in solar power, it's on to the next revolution: a massive disruption of the U.S. electricity market.
“The signs of world-changing transformation are everywhere: Venture capitalists are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into Valley solar startups pursuing technological breakthroughs to make sun power as cheap as fossil fuel. Three of the largest tech IPOs of 2005 were for solar companies, including San Jose-based SunPower, a spinoff of chipmaker Cypress Semiconductor.”

 GM: THE NEW GREEN CARMAKER?
http://money.cnn.com/2006/12/01/autos/la_show_mpg_cars/index.htm
CNNMoney.com. 12/1/06
The planet's biggest car company shows off its Earth-friendly side.
From CNNMoney.com

 CITY APPROVES ‘CARBON TAX' IN EFFORT TO REDUCE GAS EMISSIONS
http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F2071FF73F5A0C7B8DDDA80994DE404482
The New York Times, 11/18/06
Voters in Boulder, Colorado have approved what environmentalists say may be the nation's first ''carbon tax,'' intended to reduce emissions of heat-trapping gases.

 THE ROAD TO ENERGY INDEPENDENCE STARTS IN A FIELD IN NEBRASKA
Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla explains why he's betting on biofuels.
http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.10/ethanol_pr.html
Wired. October 2006.
"Ethanol – and soon cellulosic ethanol and its successors – offers not only a cleaner, cheaper alternative to gasoline but one that's made in America...we don't have to pay more for cleaner transportation energy. We have the fuel in ethanol, and we have the technology to produce it, the distribution systems to move it, the pumps to dispense it, and the cars to run on it – all in place and ready to go today. The doorway to a future with fewer economic and environmental risks is before us. All we need do is step through it."

 U.S. GREEN BUILDING COUNCIL TO TIGHTEN STANDARDS AND ADD INCENTIVES
Building Green Names Top Ten Green Building Products for 2006
http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/features/feature_template.cfm?ID=1393&page=2

 50 EXCITING COMPANIES THAT ARE MAKING GREEN BY BEING GREEN
http://www.inc.com/green50
Inc.

 THE CAR OF THE FUTURE
http://www.dailyreckoning.com/LP/CarOfTheFurture.html?gclid=CIXZ6ube_ogCFTA8FQodZECHLA
The Daily Reckoning. 2006.
By Justice Litle, Editor of Outstanding Investments

 INVESTING IN CLEAN ENERGY
http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8168089
The Economist. Nov 2006.
Economist cover story discusses the huge boom in investments and venture capital going toward clean tech.
"The clean-energy business is turning into the next big investment boom, in which risks are lightly brushed aside"

 THE TOP 100 GREEN CAMPAIGNERS OF ALL TIME
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1958602,00.html
The UK’s Environment Agency has invited experts to name the people who have done most to save the planet
The Guardian. Tuesday November 28, 2006
By David Adam, environment correspondent

 NEW YORK STATE LEVERAGES GREEN POWER TO DRIVE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Treehugger. December 5, 2006
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/12/new_york_state_1.php
Utilizing the movement to make moves financially. Isn't that what we are about?

 A NEW MATERIALS ECONOMY
http://www.ewire.com/display.cfm/Wire_ID/3535
E-Wire. Dec 5, 2006.
Early Policy Institute press release
"In nature, one-way linear flows do not long survive. Nor, by extension, can they long survive in the expanding economy that is a part of the earth's ecosystem. The challenge is to redesign the materials economy so that it is compatible with nature", writes Lester R. Brown, President of Earth Policy Institute, in his book Plan B 2.0. The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history.”

 AT THE TIPPING POINT: A NEW WAVE OF ENVIRONMENTALISM IS UPON US http://www.environmental-expert.com/resulteacharticle4.asp?cid=8707&codi=8126&level=0&idproducttype=6
Environmental Expert. Nov 06

 BUSINESSES MUST ADAPT TO REALITIES OF EARTH’S ECOSYSTEMS, WARNS NEW PUBLICATION
http://www.greenbiz.com/news/news_third.cfm?NewsID=34282
Green Biz. 11/22/06
Business simply cannot function if ecosystems and the services they deliver - like water, biodiversity, food, fiber and climate regulation - are degraded or out of balance. There must be a value attached to natural resources, and businesses need to start understanding this value."

 RAISING MONEY FOR SUSTAINABLE ENTERPRISES
http://www.bsdglobal.org/markets/raising_money.asp
International Institute for Sustainable Development. 2006.
Offers advice to entrepreneurs on seeking finance, and highlights a number of key sources well disposed toward investing in sustainable enterprises.

 2006 NATIONAL GREEN POWER AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED
http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/news/sbnews.cfm?id=11703
SustainableBusiness.com 12/05/2006
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the Center for Resource Solutions (CRS) have awarded the 2006 Green Power Leadership Awards, recognizing leading national green power purchasers and suppliers.

 MOVEMENT SHAKERS
Two eco-leaders -- one mainstream, one radical -- debate the movement's past and future
http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2006/03/29/schulz/
Grist. March 29, 2006.
Eco-leaders are Eric Mann of the Labor/Community Strategy Center and Frances Beineke of the Natural Resources Defense Council

 US DEFNEDS ITSELF ON GLOBAL WARMING
http://www.forbes.com/technology/ebusiness/feeds/ap/2006/11/06.html
Associated Press. 11/6/06
“The United States is doing better lately than some countries in restraining growth of global warming gases, and it isn't likely to change its stand against mandatory controls, a U.S. negotiator said Monday as 5,000 delegates opened the annual U.N. climate conference.”

 BUDGETS FALLING IN RACE TO FIGHT GLOBAL WARMING
http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F0071EFE395B0C738FDDA90994DE404482
The New York Times. 10/30/06
“Cheers fit for a revival meeting swept a hotel ballroom as 1,800 entrepreneurs and experts watched a PowerPoint presentation of the most promising technologies for limiting global warming: solar power, wind, ethanol and other farmed fuels, energy-efficient buildings and fuel-sipping cars.”

 TALKS TO START ON CLIMATE AMID SPLIT ON WARMING
http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F50714FE3A5B0C768CDDA80994DE404482
The New York Times. 11/5/06
Climate negotiators are gathering in Nairobi, Kenya, for their 12th conference since 1992, with the world divided into three seemingly inflexible blocs on what to do about global warming.