by Jeffrey Hollender | May 10, 2012
Why is the former chief of Fannie Mae still a director of a public company as prominent as Goldman Sachs and Target? How can Charles O. Prince III, the former chief executive of Citigroup, who resigned under pressure in 2007 amid huge write-downs at the bank, be an...
by Jeffrey Hollender | May 7, 2012
Recently, the EPA announced the 50 organizations that are using more than 15 terawatts (that’s a lot!) of clean energy annually. These 50 are avoiding carbon pollution equal to that created by the electricity used by more than 1.3 million U.S. homes each year. That’s...
by Jeffrey Hollender | May 3, 2012
While I went to MIT’s Sustainability Summit to speak, one of the most compelling reasons to go was not for myself, but to hear Jeremy Grantham, co-founder and chief investment strategist at GMO, a Boston-based asset management firm with nearly $100 billion under...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Apr 27, 2012
Dispatches from The New York Times/Shell Oil 2012 Energy Summit titled Earth 2050: The Food Water Energy Nexus. Eric Holt-Gimenez, Executive Director, FoodFirst Institute for Food and Development Policy, says that of the one billion people who are chronically hungry,...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Apr 25, 2012
Dispatches from The New York Times/Shell Oil 2012 Energy Summit titled Earth 2050: The Food Water Energy Nexus. In Houston, the cost of water over the last five years has skyrocketed from $.50-$1 to $5–$6. That’s a 500% to 600% increase. Joe Rozza, Global Water...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Apr 23, 2012
Dispatches from The New York Times/Shell Oil 2012 Energy Summit titled Earth 2050: The Food Water Energy Nexus. Last week I was in Houston to attend an intimate gathering of about 50 people to participate in The New York Times/Shell Oil 2012 Energy Summit titled Earth...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Apr 19, 2012
In October of 2011, the Harvard Business School cajoled nearly 10,000 of its 78,000 alumni to complete a questionnaire that was published on January 18, 2012. The result? Harvard alum are clearly glum. In fact, 71% of the Harvard graduates who are in business expect...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Apr 17, 2012
Guest blog post by Candace Karu, Lifestyle Commentator and Favorite Foodie at Cabot Creamery The founding of Cabot Creamery in a small town in Vermont in 1919 was based on the spirit of cooperation, staking a claim in the fundamental idea that together they could be...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Apr 13, 2012
When spring comes along, it’s easy to think “out with the old, in with the new.” My philosophy has always been to reuse, recycle, and reclaim before buying new stuff. It’s the proliferation of new stuff that has affected our environment so...
