February 16, 2015 ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE Carbon Onsetting: A Robust Complement to — or Replacement for — Offsetting Internal carbon fees are becoming increasingly popular with companies as varied as Shell, Microsoft and Disney. But rather than use some or all of these funds to buy carbon offsets, a new …
California Dries Up as Brown Pushes $15 Billion Tunnel
California’s worsening drought is raising the stakes for a $15 billion plan endorsed by Governor Jerry Brown to build two 30-mile (48-kilometer) water tunnels under an ecologically sensitive river delta east of San Francisco Bay. The tunnels, each as wide as a two-lane interstate highway, would ship water more reliably …
Earth Policy Institute: U.S. Bike-Sharing Fleet More than Doubles in 2013
U.S. Bike-Sharing Fleet More than Doubles in 2013 Janet Larsen www.earth-policy.org/data_highlights/2013/highlights40 Earth Policy Release Data Highlight August 28, 2013 The opening of the San Francisco Bay Area bike share on August 29, 2013, brings the combined fleet of shared bikes in the United States above 18,000, more than a doubling since …
Attention, Black Friday Shoppers: Say Hello to Yerdle
“Black Friday” is typically when deal-hunters converge en rabid masse at any number of big box stores across the US to grab as many discounted items as they can get their hands on — the pinnacle of consumerism at its least genteel. On the polar opposite end of the spectrum, …
BP: Taking Us “Beyond Petroleum”?
A Practical Visionary Perspective © 2010 by Corinne McLaughlin When BP changed its name from “British Petroleum” to “Beyond Petroleum” some years ago to promote its new division for renewable energy, did the company have any idea about the dramatic role it would later play? Did BP realize what it …