Environmental Defense: living up to its name
Fred Krupp What a different just a few years can make. Hard as it is to believe, there was a time not long ago when Congress appeared to be on the verge of a bipartisan agreement to regulate global...
View ArticleWill American consumers ever go “green”?
It’s been another action-packed day at FORTUNE’s Brainstorm Green conference on business and the environment. Lively conversation about the future of coal (it’s not going away), sustainable seafood...
View ArticleThey said it at Brainstorm Green
Who says environmentalists are all gloom and doom? In terms of sheer fun, the 2011 edition of Brainstorm Green, FORTUNE’s conference about business and the environment, topped them all. Chuck Leavell...
View ArticleBumble Bee CEO: The end of cheap tuna?
Bumble Bee Foods is a survivor. Founded in 1899, Bumble Bee, which is headquartered in San Diego, owns two of the last three canned tuna factories in the U.S. (in southern California and Puerto Rico)...
View ArticleTed Roosevelt is lonely
I was headed out for a run one morning in April during FORTUNE’s Brainstorm Green conference in Laguna Niguel, CA, when I spotted Theodore Roosevelt IV jogging on the beach. Having a good run? I asked...
View ArticleCar sharing, revving up
Who would have thought that Bill Ford, the executive chairman of the Ford Motor Co., and GM Ventures, the venture capital arm of General Motors, would invest in peer-to-peer car sharing companies? The...
View ArticleThey said it at Brainstorm Green
Here are some highlights of FORTUNE’s Brainstorm Green conference, which wrapped up yesterday. I’m co-chair of the event, which brought about 300 corporate leaders, environmentalists, investors and...
View ArticleGuess who’s coming to Brainstorm Green?
FORTUNE’s Brainstorm Green conference is more than just talk. Ann Hand, the ceo of green-building startup Project Frog, recently told me that she met venture capitalist Chuck McDermott at the first...
View ArticleWhat’s for breakfast? Time to get Beyond Eggs.
Next time you dig into a breakfast of fried eggs, or enjoy a cupcake from your favorite bakery, or boil some egg noodles, don’t stop and think about the chicken that laid those eggs. You may lose your...
View ArticleMosaic: Solar power, people power
Solar panels on the roof of the Wildwoods Convention Center I’ve never been to Wildwood, New Jersey. Most likely, I’ll never go. But with a click or two on my laptop, I just invested $100 in a 487 kw...
View ArticleBrainstorm Green: What’s next?
Bill Clinton at Brainstorm Green in 2009 In 2007, Andy Serwer, the managing editor of FORTUNE, where I was then a senior writer, asked me to work with the magazine’s conference division to create a...
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