Watery Times for Lend Lease
Positioning themselves as a leader in sustainability, Lend Lease is on target to build Australia’s first carbon neutral commercial building, but are they truly prepared for the changes to come?
Submissions
American Electric Power — The Coal Problem
AEP Generation Resources operates 60 electricity generation stations across 11 states with total capacity of 31,000 MW. Based on capacity, AEP is the second largest US electricity generator but leads its competitors in CO2 emissions. What can AEP do to remain competitive and reduce its CO2 emissions?
‘The Power in Poop’ or ‘A Dirty Source for Clean Energy’
Your sewage can be used to produce clean energy, water, and building supplies through a novel technology called plasma gasification. However, reluctance to change and a lack of regulatory incentives have kept this revolutionary waste processing technique from making its way to your local landfill.
Coffee: Hotter is Better, Right?
Over two billion cups of coffee are consumed each day1, and a large proportion of those cups are purchased at Starbucks. As the world’s largest consumer of coffee beans, Starbucks will be directly impacted by the effects of climate change […]
A Melting World: Ben & Jerry’s in the Age of Climate Change
Ben & Jerry’s is actively speaking out to mitigate the impacts of climate change on its supply chain and our world. But are these impacts truly all detrimental to the company?
The Crossroad faced by state-owned China Coal Corp
I recalled when I was young, my dad used to buy and burn coals in our in-house stove to heat our apartment in the winter. And later in middle-school, as we moved into new apartment with central heating, I saw […]
Munich Re – mitigating risk in an uncertain climate
As one of the largest re-insurers in the world with circa 43,000 employees across the globe and over EUR 50bn premium income in 2015[i], Munich Re has felt the repercussions of climate change on its business model. The company has […]
Let Them Eat Lobster!
How can Luke’s Lobster react to a boiling ocean, which cooks lobster before they’re ready?
Making New York the Most Sustainable Big City
Can New York actually become the most sustainable big city? Only with incentives plus policy mandates.
The $10,000,000,000,000 Oil Company You’ve Never Heard Of
Oil usage is the single largest contributor to greenhouse gases (GHG) in the entire planet. According to the EPA, CO2 represents 81% of all GHG’s and oil combustion is the number one source of CO2 emissions [1]. Because of this, governments around […]