Insurers Need to Address Climate Change By Building Windmills, Not Walls

No industry stands to gain or lose more from climate change than the insurance industry. Yet it has dragged its heels in response when it should be adapting to the changing winds by reducing its impacts, educating its clients, employees and the public, and offering its input to policymakers drafting climate change regulations.

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  • Lamborghini Jumps on the Green Wagon with Hybrid Sports Car

    As part of an overall sustainability program, the high-end, low-quantity sports car manufacturer is bringing renewable energy to its factory, setting emissions-reductions goals, and developing a hybrid drivetrain for its iconic vehicles.

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  • Of Kites, Coal and the Waxman-Markey Climate Bill

    Although the U.S. Congress's new climate change bill may yet result in the kind of emissions cuts we need to stem the tide of severe global warming, its lack of market-based policies could hinder what would otherwise be much-needed progress and innovation.

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  • Intuit Helps Small Business Capture a 'Green Snapshot'

    Can the company that tamed financial accounting do the same for carbon accounting?

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  • Stonyfield Farms Puts Cows on a Diet to Save the Planet

    A project underway at Stonyfield Farms is changing the food cows eat and finding herds' methane reductions reduced by 18 percent, while also improving cows' health and the quality of their milk.

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  • The Winds of Change Blow Through the Heartland and Beyond

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    Twenty years after Field of Dreams brought one of cinema's most famous lines to the American consciousness, political and business leaders from the Hawkeye state and beyond are quoting a new variation. Wind farms: If you build them, jobs will come.

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  • Why the Ethanol Debate Isn't Helping Anyone

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    Another ugly battle is raging in the ethanol wars. Sadly, while everyone is arguing over whether ethanol is bad, no one is talking about how to make it better. The worst impacts of ethanol occur far from Iowa or Washington in the forests that are burned down to respond to demands for cropland.

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  • Climate Change Pros: Male, Well-Paid and Secure

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    Professionals in climate change-related fields are more likely to be male, highly educated, well-paid and not worried about losing their jobs, according to a new survey.

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  • Climate Change Pros: Male, Well-Paid, Secure -- and Looking for Love

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    A recent survey finds that climate change pros are mostly men, well-paid and secure -- and presumably, smooth. How smooth? Well, this is what we think it sounds like when these guys hit the nearest eco bar.

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  • Reader Response from 'Watthead' Defends Big Government

    A reader writes back: Blogger Jesse Jenkins, aka Watthead, responds to the post "Beware of Obama's 'Battery Gold Rush' " and argues that more government engagement is essential to spur a clean energy revolution.

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  • The Green Future of the 'New GM'

    What to make of this week's bankruptcy filing by General Motors? The beginning of the end? The end of the beginning? A death? Rebirth? Something in between?

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  • Don't Believe the Climate Bill Doomsayers

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    Alarmists in entrenched industry say the energy bill being debated in Congress will harm the economy. But history has shown that industry's resistance to change is groundless and higher standards set by government stimulate economic growth, writes Ceres President Mindy S. Lubber.

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  • How to Cool Your Company's Greenhouse Gas Hot Spots

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    Identifying greenhouse gas hot spots in corporate value chains can help companies address the most significant emissions sources while slashing costs and reducing other business risks.

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  • $350M Stimulus Boost Could Begin New Era for U.S. Geothermal Energy

    The Obama Administration gave geothermal energy generation in the U.S. a huge shot in the arm Wednesday with the announcement of $350 million in stimulus funds to scale the barriers of tapping the Earth’s heat as a steady renewable power source.

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  • Notes From the Road to Copenhagen

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    Aron Cramer, president and CEO of Business for Social Responsibility, reflects on developments at the World Business Summit on Climate Change, where he helped lead a panel discussion on the role of value chains in creating and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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  • Rainforests Win Big in New U.S. Climate Bill

    Deforestation accounts for 20 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions –- a fact not lost on drafters of the Waxman-Markey Bill, which has passed through committee and now goes before the United States House of Representatives.

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  • Sustainable Buildings Mean Smart Business

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    TRIRIGA President and CEO George Ahn details a recent talk with Yale professor Daniel Esty about U.S. President Barack Obama's energy related goals, how buildings factor into a clean energy future and the role technology plays in moving toward a low-carbon economy.

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  • Beware of Obama's 'Battery Gold Rush'

    Electric cars are a great idea, writes Marc Gunther, the faster they arrive, the better. But judgments about which battery-makers to finance should best be left to venture capitalists, investors, big investment banks and the like, he says.

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  • A New Era of 'Climate Thinking'

    In a keynote speech delivered at the Women's Network for a Sustainable Future in Santa Clara, Calif., last week, California Air Resources Board Chairman Mary Nichols described how a new way of thinking -- “climate thinking” -- may alter the long-term decisions made by policymakers and companies.

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  • Warren Buffet's Big Battery Play

    David Sokol, the chairman of MidAmerican Energy (majority controlled by Berkshire Hathaway), is about to start testing a utility-scale battery storage plan that could change the renewables game forever.

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  • Electric Car Companies Use Partnerships to Boost Success

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    Developing the electric car, bringing it to market and having it succeed are huge feats. To overcome design and infrastructure hurdles, many automakers are partnering with other organizations. Such collaborations can reduce risk, boost success and speed up the development process for all involved.

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