The price is right
Last week I sat down with my colleague TJ DiCaprio, a senior director of environmental sustainability at Microsoft and the chief architect of our internal carbon fee. Over the last six months, we’ve...
View ArticleAfter the State of the Union
Yesterday’s State of the Union address could go down as a watershed moment in America’s transition to a clean energy economy. Two years ago, the president wouldn’t mention climate change. Last night,...
View Article2013 state of solar video series
As we head into 2013, Mosaic is highlighting the exciting state of solar in this multi-part video blog series. Each video features employees discussing what Mosaic’s model brings to the solar and...
View Article2013 state of solar video series
As we head into 2013, Mosaic is highlighting the exciting state of solar in this multi-part video blog series. Each video features employees discussing what Mosaic’s model brings to the solar and...
View ArticleSequester carbon, not spending
We are just days away from the long-dreaded sequestration – $85 billion in spending cuts that will give Americans a taste of the same brand of austerity that sparked strikes and riots in Greece and...
View Article2013 state of solar video series
As we head into 2013, Mosaic is highlighting the exciting state of solar in this multi-part video blog series. Each video features employees discussing what Mosaic’s model brings to the solar and...
View ArticlePerspectives on progress
Last month J.P. Morgan and the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) released a report titled Perspectives on Progress, a market research study that included interviews of 99 major impact investors...
View ArticleThe heat is on
Iceland President Ólafur Ragnar GrÍmsson isn't shy about heralding the substantial economic growth geothermal energy has brought his beloved nation over the course of his lifetime. And while Iceland...
View ArticleCarleton University research casts sobering light on costs of air pollution
Carleton University Research Casts Sobering Light on Costs of Air PollutionTwo Carleton University researchers have published groundbreaking research that estimates the cost of air pollution sources...
View ArticleFire and ice
A long, slow cooling trend over the past 5,000 years was interrupted in the Northern Hemisphere by a fairly brief spike during the Middle Ages known as the “Medieval Warm Period.” It was then the...
View ArticleCrossing the pond
Energy efficiency – called the “hidden fuel” by the International Energy Agency – has been getting a lot of attention lately as a top low carbon priority. In his State of the Union address in February,...
View ArticleSurvey says
The Republican Party is not known for taking action on climate change, or even for acknowledging its existence. Republican voters across the country evidently do not feel the same way. A recently...
View ArticleAbundant clean energy for and by the people
How do we get to 100% clean energy? I believe the fastest way is to allow more people to participate in building the clean energy economy.Until recently, there were good reasons why almost all of us...
View ArticleSchool's out
“It’s wrong to profit from wrecking the planet.”That’s what thousands of young people are saying across the U.S. who are demanding their colleges and universities strip fossil fuel investments from...
View ArticlePark it right there
Despite the growth of public transportation and other transportation alternatives, parking locations remain necessary in much of the nation, to the chagrin of some. Even though parking consultants and...
View ArticleTeamViewer study: remote workers work harder for the environment
TeamViewer®, one of the world’s most popular providers of remote control and online meetings software, released the findings of its Telecommuting for Earth survey of 500 American adult office workers...
View ArticleEarth day 2013
For the past several years, I’ve used Earth Day as an opportunity to look at Microsoft’s progress on environmental sustainability issues over the past 12 months and where we are headed in the year to...
View ArticleAccelerating Data Center Efficiency
Today’s tech-hungry and tech-reliant planet elevates data centers to a status of ultra-critical infrastructures. This is particularly true for government agencies, e-commerce providers, educational...
View ArticleGood climate for action
Last year climate change became reality for the United States. New York City flooded, a historic drought blanketed the Midwest, and we saw one of the worst fire seasons ever recorded. By July, the U.S....
View ArticleChanging winds
As a photograph of Egyptian passengers walking in the dark following a power cut at the Tahrir Square metro station in Cairo appeared on websites across the Internet earlier this month, the incident...
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