by Shana Rappaport | Ecosystem, Supply Chain, Verge
It’s easy to talk about companies needing to understand climate risks in their supply chains. It’s a lot harder to do something about it. Risk and supply chains were woven tightly throughout the conversation at the Climate Leadership Conference last week...
by Shana Rappaport | Resilient Cities, Sustainability, Verge
The new word from City Hall is coopetition. In a world where metropolises are vying to be seen as climate (or cleantech or green) leaders, some mayors are concluding that they can move further, faster by cooperating as well as competing. It’s a new chapter in the...
by Shana Rappaport | Verge
OAKLAND, Calif. — Dozens of the world’s biggest companies have registered to participate in the 2014 GreenBiz Forum, GreenBiz Group’s flagship event for sustainability executives, to be held February 18 to 20 in Phoenix. The Forum brings together sustainability...
by Amy Seidman | Resilient Cities, Verge
When looking at the landscape of climate change in the literal sense, we are faced with the advent of severe weather cycles, destructive storms like hurricane like Sandy and rising sea levels threatening to consume vast areas. City and state planners have their work...
by Shana Rappaport | Highlights, Verge
SAN FRANCISCO — GreenBiz Group will turn the switch on the first-ever ballroom-size microgrid, a functional and replicable system that heralds the future of distributed energy production. Called VERGE Interconnect, the microgrid will be a centerpiece of VERGE...
by Amy Seidman | Innovation, Verge, Video
In this complicated world we live in, a few powerful incumbents maintain the status quo to protect a small number of special interests groups. This is not conspiracy theory but fact. Meanwhile, many companies are doing much more than they are letting people know...