9 posts and columns on climate change

Al Gore: Highlights from AsiaD (Video)

in AsiaD on October 20, 2011 at 11:20 pm PT

Former Vice President Al Gore arrived at AsiaD almost directly from Steve Jobs’s memorial at Apple, and the first thing he talked about in his interview with Walt Mossberg was the event itself.
Al Gore at AsiaD

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The Original Climate Conference

in News on December 16, 2009 at 10:22 am PT

Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site. (Click on the image to see a bigger version.)

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Bailing Out of the Chamber: Are Apple and Nike Smart or Shortsighted?

in News on October 14, 2009 at 1:02 pm PT

The Wall Street Journal edit page has leapt to the defense of the Chamber of Commerce, rattled in recent days by the high-profile defections of a few big companies at odds with the Chamber’s stance on climate change. The thrust of today’s editorial, which centers on the recent departures of Apple (from the Chamber) and Nike (from the Chamber’s Board of Directors), boils down to a single premise: “Apple and Nike are putting green political correctness above the long-term interests of their own shareholders.”

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Chamber CEO Takes a Bite Out of Apple

in News on October 7, 2009 at 1:49 pm PT

It looks like the Chamber of Commerce isn’t ready to let Apple Inc. have the last word in the tiff between the two over U.S. climate policy. In a letter to Apple CEO Steven Jobs today, Chamber President Thomas Donohue takes the software maker to task for bolting the business organization a day earlier.

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Exodus: Apple Leaves Chamber of Commerce Over Climate Spat

in News on October 6, 2009 at 1:00 am PT

And then there were five–defections from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over its climate-change policy, that is. Apple today resigned its membership in the Chamber “effective immediately.” That’s a harsher tone than the other departures–three utilities said they’d let their membership lapse at the end of the year, and Nike simply quite the Chamber’s board of directors.

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Energy Bill in Limbo? Steven Chu Turns to Facebook.

in News on July 21, 2009 at 11:42 am PT

The Obama administration really, really doesn’t want the fight over health care to steal attention from energy and climate legislation. Energy Secretary Steven Chu just launched a Facebook page to keep climate change front and center.

Google: Beyond Thunderdome

in News on October 3, 2008 at 12:00 am PT

You can make money without doing evil. You can also make it without using so much fossil fuel. That’s the word from Google, which today unveiled a $4.4 trillion plan it says will reduce the nation’s dependence on coal and oil. Google’s “Clean Energy 2030” plan proposes to wean the U.S. off of coal and oil for electricity generation by 2030 by relying on power from wind, nuclear and geothermal sources instead.