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Who’s responsible for obesity?
While I have long been inclined to think of American’s obesity epidemic as fundamentally a matter of individual responsibility — after all, despite what has been called an obesogenic environment, many...
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Yet another reason to eat less meat
The more I learn about the way most chickens, pigs and cows are raised and slaughtered in America, the less appetite I have for meat. I’m not a vegetarian, and may never become one. But, hey, I’ve...
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Untangling the lexicon of sustainability
Douglas Gayeton Words can illuminate. Words can mislead. Words matter. That’s one reason why I’m intrigued by Douglas Gayeton’s videos, books and “information artworks,” all of which are part of a vast...
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Recycling CO2, and the oil sands
Capturing the CO2 emissions from coal or natural gas plants is a climate solution–but one that has sharply divided environmentalists. Mike Brune and his colleagues at the Sierra Club want the US and...
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Biz Stone: A good guy who’s doing very well
I’m a big fan of Twitter. It’s how I keep up with the news that I need to know, so I follow Jo Confino, Heidi Moore, Joel Makower, Andy Revkin, Bryan Walsh, Tom Philpott, David Biello, Marcus Chung...
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A murmur, not a message
One reason why it has been so hard for President Obama and environmentalists to persuade Congress to enact climate-change legislation is strong opposition from much of corporate America. The U.S....
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A lean startup seeks to “green” travel
I’m writing this blogpost in London’s Heathrow Airport, on my way home after a brief visit to the UK. I had a great trip, visiting colleagues at The Guardian and relatives in Manchester, today is not...
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The art and science of systems change
The corporate sustainability movement, such as it is, has made enormous progress in the last decade. Just not enough. Despite the well-intentioned efforts of forward-thinking companies, greenhouse gas...
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Walmart’s food czar
National Geographic is running a months-long project about the future of food in the magazine, online and at live events, including one last Friday here in your nation’s capital. It’s an impressive...
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Flour power? Soon you may be eating coffee
Maybe because I do a lot of writing in coffee shops (thanks, Quartermaine!), I’ve long been interested in the coffee industry. Many years ago, I wrote about Starbucks in my book Faith and Fortune. Last...
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The elusive fortune at the base of the pyramid
It’s been an exceptionally busy week, beginning with the 2014 edition of Fortune Brainstorm Green (selected videos are online here) and ending with a holiday weekend visit from my new grandson, so I’m...
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From an organic pioneer, a vegan cookbook
One of my favorite events each year is Cooking for Solutions, a conference and food festival staged beautifully by the Monterey Bay Aquarium. It’s a gathering of smart people who are passionate about...
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Has success spoiled Green Mountain Coffee?
“Doing well by doing good” has become a cliche on the corporate-responsibility circuit. And for good reason–smart companies that serve their customers, provide opportunity to their workers and connect...
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Feeding the hungry at Panera Bread
Not by coincidence, I’m blogging today from a Panera Bread cafe near my home in Bethesda, MD. The atmosphere is pleasant, the people are friendly, the wi-fi is reliable and the food is pretty good. (I...
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GMOs, engineered to make better food
With some reluctance, I’m again writing this week about genetically-modified organisms. My reluctance stems from the fact that on this topic, most people’s minds appear to be made up. People tend to...
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The upside of outsourcing
I heard an excellent, in-depth interview this week with William Easterly, the development economist and author of a new book called The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators and the Forgotten...
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Fair Trade USA, growing and still controversial
Fair Trade is an elegant idea. It’s an attempt to make globalization work for the world’s poor. Those of us in rich countries agree to pay a bit more for whatever it is we are buying — coffee is by far...
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When NGOs can’t be trusted
I’ve spent the last couple of weeks reporting a story for the Guardian on NGOs and GMOs–specifically, the ways that some nonprofit groups have stirred up fears about genetically-modified organisms, by...
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Paul Greenberg’s fish stories
Much of what I know about seafood I’ve learned from Paul Greenberg. Paul is an acquaintance and a gifted writer whose new book, called American Catch: The Fight for Our Local Seafood, looks at three...
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Tax avoidance, and corporate responsibility
Would you consider Apple, Coca-Cola, General Electric, Google, Microsoft, Nike and PepsiCo good corporate citizens? Certainly they position themselves that way, and they deserve credit for their...
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