Jim Nicolow
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Big Three selling jets, but just inching toward efficiency
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Jim Nicolow
Dec 2, 2008
It looks like it's not just a buyer's market for automobiles, but for corporate jets....
Both candidates tout "Clean Coal" -- but it doesn't exist!
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Jim Nicolow
Oct 27, 2008
Holy crap. Is the onslaught of "clean coal" internet ads driving anyone else nuts? You can't open a news website without being subjected to...
EcoBroker standards: got transparency?
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Jim Nicolow
Oct 21, 2008
Sarah Gardner reported on the EcoBroker Program this afternoon on Marketplace. The program attempts to address two critical issues in combating...
The bailout plan and prospects for renewable energy
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Jim Nicolow
Oct 2, 2008
Sustainable thinking often requires the luxury of a long term perspective: If you don't have fuel to prepare the evening's meal, whether the...
On green one-upmanship at the DNC and RNC
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Jim Nicolow
Aug 27, 2008
Both the Democrats and Republicans appear to be scrambling in a game of one-upmanship to host "the greenest national convention ever." While that...
Is KB Home commiting a "random act of greenness"?
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Jim Nicolow
Jul 25, 2008
Joel Makower reflects upon the evolving definition of greenwash in a recent post titled, "How Bad is Greenwashing, Really?" He explains how...
Shell gets a greenwash smackdown
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Jim Nicolow
May 9, 2008
GreenBiz.com reports that greenwash complaints in the U.K. quadrupled last year....
Buying green to avert global warming is like #%*&ing for chastity
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Jim Nicolow
Apr 22, 2008
Michael Pollan's latest piece in the New York Times Magazine, "Why Bother?" tells us why we should bother....
Greenwashing is a gateway drug
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Jim Nicolow
Apr 5, 2008
In Amy Westervelt's recent Sustainable Industries interview with L. Hunter Lovins, Lovins makes the case that greenwashing is good. "Hypocrisy is...
Ecopods are burying the greenwash
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Jim Nicolow
Mar 19, 2008
Did you ever hear that joke -- that the quickest way to significantly reduce your environmental footprint is to die?...