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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Students Forecast Climate Change’s Impact
should lead the charge on developing a non-beef burger.” —E. Jordan Taylor (MBA 2018) H&M Data point: “Last December, Forbes reported that the ‘apparel industry accounts for 10% of global carbon emissions and remains the second-largest... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
pretty typical these days, and there was malware on his computer that had gotten to him via a phishing attack. Phishing: 99% of all the problems start with you or me, the carbon pieces of this equation, making a mistake. The malware... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Climate Change as Must-See TV
ABBASI: With the participation of HBS alumni and Hollywood heavyweights, bringing climate change drama into US living rooms. Related Link Preview: Years of Living Dangerously (video) by Garry Emmons Last spring, when a Hawaiian observatory reported that View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Pricing Paradise
including carbon sequestration, watershed protection, and the creation of intellectual property. (Star Wars director George Lucas, for example, found Death Valley National Park to be the perfect locale for Luke Skywalker’s home planet of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 12 Apr 2011
- News
Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS
insulated, eco-friendly composite tile, enabling electrical interconnection and assembly with other tiles via “plug & play” connectors. Crossover Energy is an energy services company, helping organizations reduce their energy costs and embrace sustainability by... View Details
Keywords: Multiple alumni
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
more than 2 billion are malnourished, even though we produce enough food today to feed everyone. The carbon footprint of food waste totals 3.3 billion metric tons, enough to rank as the third-largest country in the world in greenhouse gas... View Details
- 21 May 2019
- News
Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
the sector, as well. Putting a price on carbon was also mentioned as a key element in motivating changes that would have a meaningful impact for agribusiness and society, overall. View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
have their stacks of bottles burst as a SodaStream user hits the machines' carbonation button. The message: making your own soda saves the world from the scourge of plastic bottles. The ad was rejected by CBS but went viral, ultimately... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: Auto Pilot
became its own initiative, with Kapoor as the head: “My goal—our goal—is to move to autonomous, electric, shared fleets,” he says, thereby unlocking simultaneous gains in safety, carbon emissions, and urban congestion. The future has... View Details
- 15 May 2020
- News
New Menu
second, larger fund to support companies developing ecologically efficient food production technologies—innovations that can reduce carbon emissions, plastics, and packaging in the supply chain and improve land and water use. "Many large... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Shaping Leaders Who Understand Business and the Environment
“Those are the questions students want to explore: not ‘How do we batten the hatches?’ but ‘What are the opportunities for new products and services in a world of climate change?’” Other class sessions challenge students to assess EcoSecurities’ opportunities in View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
carbon dioxide sequestering for power generation fits all objectives, except it is not doable on the scale needed. Stobaugh’s book supports the inclusion of “externalities” in energy pricing, the implication being that, if included, this... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Leading Change
weaving to dyeing, sewing, and retailing. By leveraging vertical integration, best practices, and technology such as automation and robotics, the company is constantly improving productivity and raising product quality. At the same time, the company strives to reduce... View Details
- 21 Oct 2020
- News
Cold Calculations
have to make these decisions together because our global climate is all interconnected.” But, ultimately, Arctic ice restoration is only “a Band-Aid solution,” Payne says. To truly address climate change, the world has to come together and do the hard work necessary to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Farming for Fuel
and that we still need to get around,” he notes. “When commodity prices are kept low, we have a tendency to think these things are unimportant and uninteresting, but that’s never been true.” Greater transparency may be brought about through the introduction of View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
indoor spaces can make you sick—or keep you healthy. Fortunately, we now have the know-how and technology to keep people safe indoors. But there is more to securing your office, school, or home than wiping down surfaces. Levels of carbon... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
Lo, is carbon neutral—vertical farms set up next to, say, a giant solar field or a wind farm. “We look at the industry, and it’s pretty clear you can’t put a sustainable label on yourself unless you solve the energy piece of it—and we... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Roger Ullman: Going Green with E2
outdoors. I want to leave a world in which she can breathe the air, drink the water, and visit places that are still wild.” Ullman is proud to note that E2 was essential to the passage of a California law in July 2002 that limits carbon... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
ambitious goal is to be a “zero waste, zero carbon company, operating on 100 percent renewable energy in LEED certified buildings” by 2020. The case vividly documents some of the measures taken by Burt’s to meet that goal, such as a... View Details
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
laboratories for student and faculty work in areas such as solar, wind, and hydroelectric energy; sustainable production of rice, sugarcane, hay, mangoes, and beef; waste management; and carbon neutrality. An additional commercial growing... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg