It is always a good sign when large corporations get on the bandwagon.In this case, the sustainable development bandwagon.

There are currently two very different strategies taken large corporations in their drive towards sustainable development:

• A “sustainable brand” strategy: Clorox and S.C. Johnson have both chosen to create a “green” cleaning range.

• A “transversal” strategy: Procter & Gamble targets all mainstream consumers. The company gradually reinforces the “green” dimension of most of its flagship brands. It created “Tide Coldwater”, an “Ultra Downy” softener.

You can read the full article entitled “P & G’s Sustainable Development Strategy“

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When it comes to the production of clean renewable energy, China took the lead last year with $34.6 billion, leaving the US well behind with only $18.6 billion.

Cleantech, the new buzzwords which describes the development of clean and renewable energy sources such as wind, sun, geothermal as well as biofuel is a growth industry which apparently grows bigger in some countries than others. For example:

Brazil had a good showing with $7.4 billion, some of which went in wind turbines installed on the windy northeast coast of the country.

India had a prety good showing with $2.3 billion. While Japan had a disappointing $800 million.

For more details, you can click on who’s winning the clean energy race blog post.

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The post also talks about Social Media and how it contributes tothe effort.

http://carbonoutreach.blogspot.com/2010/01/five-ways-haiti-can-use-solar-power-for.html

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A mutual funds company, Global mutual fund, has a “green” portfolio which it calls: “Portfolio 21″.

The corporation newly announced its top 10 companies. I was somewhat surprised to see companies listed which I never thought of as “green”.

For instance, the Autodesk corporation.  On the other hand, since 3D CAD cuts down the use of paper, that would make it a candidate. But Autodesk goes further, it has recently partnered with the U.S. Green Building Council with a goal of integrating its technology with the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system.

Railways are inherently efficient land-based transportation, and East Japan Railway continuously operates to decrease its power consumption. It has introduced reduced-weight railcars, and is installing solar and wind systems at some of its “eco stations”. The company is also working to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions of the entire transport system by promoting inter-modal transportation by combining rail with additional modes of travel.

The Henkel company, out of Germany, creates an array of bio-based detergents and adhesives, minimizing the company’s reliance on fossil fuels. More than two-thirds of its products’ formulations are usually based on renewable raw resources.All new products must help with sustainable development.

Itron manufactures advanced metering national infrastructure system that allows two-way communication between utilities and consumers. This assists customers to participate in demand response and energy conservation programs.

Natura Cosmeticos, of Brazil, is more than just a cosmetics organization. It promotes the development and discovery of new and renewable raw materials, and supports sustainable agriculture and agroforest systems.

Potlatch is promising as being a leader within the domestic sustainable forestry industry. The company recently achieved Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification for all its forestlands and also finds other business opportunities for its forestland by way of recreation leases and conservation easements.

Red Electrica is Spain’s leading power transmission company. It is responsible for the management of its country’s electricity distribution system. Spain has become the second-largest European wind-power producer and expects to have wind farms producing 13,000 megawatts by 2011.

Sharp, a well recognized name in consumer electronics products, is the world’s largest producer of solar cells and is one of just a few industry leaders to support a solution to e-waste in the United States.

Umicore is based in Belgium, and is the world’s leading recycler of precious metals. Examples include materials for rechargeable batteries, fuel cells, and auto catalysts.

Vestas, a Danish company, develops, manufactures, and markets wind energy products. This company has a clear sustainability strategy based on manufacturing equipment and operating facilities for the renewable energy sector.

Sometimes, even companies which you never thought of as “green” do contribute to a better environment.

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Currently, Asia has the best longevity record and very few Asians are overweight and have all of the major health issues faced by Americans, such as high cholesterol and heart problems. This is due to their diet which uses very little beef, some pork, and chicken, but mostly seafood as its major source of proteins.

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And we want to send them more beef so that they too can be overweight, have high cholesterol, heart disease, and a shorter lifespan.

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By being just a little smarter and with just a bit more foresight, it could be advantage of Third World.

Third World nations feel that first world nations had it good for 200 years and that it gave them an advantage that they are now denied.
In fact, it’s quite the opposite. By not having spent all that money on decaying infrastructures and clinging on to old models, Third World nations can build far more efficient infrastructures. They can build efficient clean renewable energy systems, not having to worry about the fate of their existing grids. They can build and expand new and existing cities using the state-of-the-art in LEED compliant technologies. They can have far more efficient ways of moving people and freight around. Benefiting from all that you stuff they could become way he more productive than first world nations. First world nations could in fact become dinosaurs in the new knowledge and creative economy which will drive the 21st century. Advantage: Third World nations.

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Most of that energy requirement could be reduced by having more intelligent HVAC systems, better insulation and heat management. But most importantly, large buildings could incorporate energy producing features such as harnessing wind and solar energy as well as geothermal energy.

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According to the Conservatives, the Liberals have an agenda:  They want to rule the world.  Here are the facts: 

Al Gore owns 100% of 100% of all the green companies in the world, on top of donating money to all those non-profit organizations who own large pieces of land that they keep unspoiled, forcing us to save the ecosystem instead of being able to exploit the land for coal, natural gas, oil, or to cover the land with concrete and asphalt for parking lots, car manufacturing plants, or mega surface stores.

 Natural resources are limitless, God says so!  It’s written in the Bible, not exactly like that but, we conservatives can make the Bible say anything we want, after all we are spin experts.

 All of our natural resources should be exploited in order to keep our manufacturing sectors alive, since it controls the economy.  8% of total jobs in the U.S. are from this sector, so of course that 8% controls the economy, and not the 40% + jobs in the service sector.

 It is impossible to have a strong sustainable economy with green sustainable companies.   It absolutely has to be oil.  After all, the great world civilizations’ economy,  Egypt, Greece, Rome, and China, were based on oil.

 Pollution is good.  God says so in the Bible.  As Conservatives, we must vanquish those Liberals before they destroy the planet with their green economy.

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Politicians make me sick. In a recent post, I commented on my disagreement with Cap and Trade, and why it wouldn’t resolve any issues.  All the hoopla and controversy around the upcoming Copenhagen Summit has to do with politicians not agreeing on political issues.  The United States has yet to agree on their own Cap and Trade.   Because of that, there was no assurance that they would even show up.  Same goes for other nations such as China and India who worked out their own regulations, figuring that they didn’t need to show up.  At last count, 65 nations have indicated their presence.

The politicians who will show up at the summit believe in global warming, but have no clue on how to solve it.  Considering their ignorance of the science behind climate change, they figure they just have to come up with a given percentage of CO2 reduction, and that’s it.  Whether or not engineers and scientists can come up with the technology needed to meet this requirement is another story. 

To make matters worse, Conservatives are spreading the rumor that anthropogenic climate change is a hoax.   They have turned the whole debate into a holy war by stating that the belief in human caused global warming is akin to  ”religious” belief.  

In light of this, the God fearing Christian Conservatives must fight those infidels. 

It is no longer about common sense but about a political war turned to a religious one. 

The Conservatives must vanquish the Liberal heathens before they destroy the planet with their ecological fallacy!

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A little quote from the BusinessGreen website

“The potential impact on low-carbon investments of failing to deliver a meaningful deal at the forthcoming Copenhagen Summit was underlined last week with the news that analyst firm Point Carbon is downgrading its long-term price forecasts, primarily as a result of growing uncertainty at the prospects of an international climate change deal being reached.”

What this means is that when carbon price is low, trading carbon credits is less profitable, so there is less of an incentive to reduce carbon emissions in order to have more credits to sell.

Of course, if there is scarcity of carbon credits, that could also drive prices up, but that is mere speculation. The BusinessGreen website is from the UK and they suggest that the European governments, including the UK, may intervene in the ETS market — the European equivalent of the US cap and trade system — to drive up the price of carbon to promote low-carbon investments.

That would mean throwing government money to incite corporations to invest money in R&D so as to reduce their carbon footprint so as to sell carbon credits  to other corporations too lazy or cheap or malicious to invest in R&D and reduce their own carbon footprint. That sounds way too complicated for me, only governments would think such convoluted schemes.

Haven’t corporations and governments heard that ordinary consumers are getting more and more concerned about the environment and that corporations who show themselves as being green do attract consumers. When Wal-Mart decided to change all their lighting fixtures in all their stores to low consumption lighting, and that they even promoted the sale of low energy light bulbs as well as forcing their suppliers to package their products with less packaging and more “eco-friendly” materials, that gave them some good press.

More and more large corporations are jumping on the green bandwagon as well as the philanthropy bandwagon, which at times can be the same bandwagon, depending upon what humanitarian causes one embraces. Being good, being green is good PR. Why need all that government money and artificial incentives when being good is good for business?

If governments want to get involved, they should put more money in quality education so that more consumers are aware of all that is at stakes in our world today as it relates to climate change so that they are even more encouraged to seek out products from corporations genuinely making a difference. For example, Richard Branson, of Virgin, is investing a lot of money to come up with a good bio fuel for his Virgin airways planes. Other airline companies would also benefit from that R&D. If Branson owns that bio fuel company, more power to him since he took the investment risks in developing a better fuel.

In the end, profits is what makes the world go round, not subsidies, rules and coercion. If you can make money helping the world, what more can you ask for?

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