Green Inc.: a new blog on business and the environment

Articles — By forcechange on September 24, 2008 5:00 am

NYTimes recently launched a new environmentally related blog called Green Inc.: Energy, the Environment and the Bottom Line, that focuses on “that often contentious place where business, politics and the environment meet.”  So far it looks like Green Inc. will be in a similar vein as WSJ’s Environmental Capital, another one of our regular reads that also looks at the nexus of business and the environment.  If the quality of Green Inc. is anything like NYT’s other green blog, Dot Earth, we will be expecting great things.

Some of their recent posts that caught our attention include: 

• A look at Bill Clinton’s insight on the potential for a cap-and-trade system, noting that Clinton believes this potential legislation will face a “make or break” in the Senate.

• A rundown of some of the most common critiques of tar sand oil extraction, including that it requires huge amounts of energy, releases exponentially more greenhouse gases than traditional drilling, and can cause damage to local ecosystems.

• And an interesting post wondering whether geo-engineering (one example: shooting thousands of mirrors into space to reflect the sun’s heat) is something that we should pursue in case we fail to develop renewable energy sources in time to halt global warming.