A just-published study by two University of California researchers concludes that there is a noticeable and statistically significant impact on stock price for companies who voluntarily disclose information on greenhouse gas emissions. This is an encouraging finding for investors who believe that such sustainability-related information is important and material in evaluating companies’ future prospects. Despite [...]
It’s a fair bet that few people would include “US Congress” in the same sentence as “accomplishment” and “good news” these days. Adding the word “sustainability” would probably cause even Google to come up empty. So it’s worth noting last week’s reauthorization of the SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) program. In fiscal 2010, this program [...]
As a rule, US investors don’t pay much attention to European Union regulations but they probably should. The European Union countries have more people (497 million versus 300 million) and a larger GDP (18 trillion versus 14.5 trillion) than the US. With that large a market, it isn’t just large multinational manufacturers who are doing [...]
Local collaboration on sustainability, as practiced by the Green Needham Collaborative, is a model that can work for businesses as well. I made that connection in this article about Green Needham that was published in the June, 2010 issue of InBusiness, the monthly publication of the Newton Chamber of Commerce. The Green Needham Collaborative is [...]
The proliferation of mechanisms and incentives in the renewable power market can obscure a fundamental fact – customers buying the product will accelerate the growth of the market by moving the industry down the learning curve to produce better products at lower prices over time. We accept this without question when it comes computers or [...]
