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Sustainable Infrastructure
NEW: Water, Water Everywhere and Not a Drop to Drink: Adding Water to the Sustainability Equation, Betsy Otto, American Rivers
NEW: Sustainable Infrastructure Solutions, Chris Lotspeich, The Second Hill Group
NEW: Living Buildings and the Competitive Advantage of High Performance, Brandon Smith, Cascadia Region Green Building Council
Sustainable Manufacturing
Green Chemistry: Turning the Ship, John C. Warner, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Center for Green Chemistry
Life Cycle Assessment: A Tool for Sustainable Manufacturing, Tom Swarr, United Technologies Corporation; Jim Fava, Five Winds International
The Quest for a Manufacturing Model that is Sustainable, Mike Bertolucci, Interface Research Corp.
Thinking Like an Ecosystem, Reid Lifset, Journal of Industrial Ecology
Sustainable Finance
Turning the Ship: Transforming the Everyday, Peter Liu, New Resource Bank
Sustainable Investing and Portfolio 21, an interview with Carsten Henningsen, Progressive Investment Management
Green Energy 3.0: This Time, It Is Different, Jackson W. Robinson, Winslow Management Company
Green Insurance Products, Stephen G. Bushnell, Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company
Sustainable Purchasing
Providing Incentives to Coffee Suppliers to Produce High Quality, Sustainable Coffee, Ben Packard, Starbucks Coffee Company
Talking Until You’re Green in the Face: Environmental Communications Comes to the Fore, Don Millar, The Element Agency
On the Power of Purchasing and the Potential of 1%, Terry Kellogg, 1% For The Planet
Promoting Green Products and Services: Cure for Asthma and Global Warming?, Arthur B. Weisman, Green Seal, Inc.
Power of Local Government Dollars, Michelle Wyman, International Council of Local Environmental Initiatives, USA (ICLEI-USA)
The Green Wave
Climate Change as a Driver of US Market Behavior, Truman Semans, Pew Center on Global Climate Change
Ford Motor Company and the Green Wave, Dan Esty, Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy
Has the Era of Green Business Finally Arrived?, Joel Makower, GreenBiz.com
Turning the Ship: Environmental Transformation of the U.S. Economy, Brian Kuehl, Harvard Loeb Fellow and The Clark Group, LLC
March 5th, 2007 at 1:15 pm So far so good. and what I’d like to see some comment on is sustainable construction and sustainable development. what exciting things are going on in these areas? sustainable construction ensures that the end-to-end construction process is as waste free and carbon neutral as it can be - and that building users pay as little as possible for heating/cooling (a contribution to reducing fuel poverty and reducing hydrocarbon dependency). sustainable construction will also help home owners and owners of existing commercial and office buildings reduce their enrgy costs by retrofitting more efficient heating and cooling solutions and passive energy saving devices. our existing buildings generate around 30% of all carbon emissions and no matter how efficient new buildings are they will have little effect on the overall carbon footprint unless we also upgrade existing structures. sustainable development is convivial development - we work, go to school, food shop within walking or biking distance of home and good public transport connects us to services that are further afield - university, hospital, major shopping, etc. Who is writing on this?
March 5th, 2007 at 1:32 pm Hi Alan, Thanks for the comment! We’ll be posting an article tomorrow from Brandon Smith, COO for the Cascadia Region Green Building Council entitled “Living Buildings”. Definitely chime in on Brandon’s article tomorrow and feel free to add any information that you think is missing. It would be especially interesting to hear about any significant efforts that you are aware of either on the issue of construction waste or on financing for efficient improvements. Again, thanks for the comment! All the best, Brian Kuehl 2007 Harvard Loeb Fellow Partner, The Clark Group, LLC