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Hi!

Just had a great conversation with the director of Planet Forward, a well-positioned non-profit focusing on energy, climate and sustainability. They are filming really interesting and unique alternative energy-based companies in the U.S. for their website, where the best will end up on PBS all over the country.

They want me to find more than the ones I’ve already recommended, and I was hoping you could hook me up with one you know well.

Planet Forward is looking to film these companies ASAP as potential solutions to the Gulf of Mexico disaster.

Can you help me find several really unique and interesting alternative energy companies that:
• are a small business
• already are generating revenues
• are based in the United States (with a slight preference to New York)
• have a really cool technology or unique advantage over other alternative energy companies

If you can think of anyone, please let me know the CEO’s contact info ASAP. And if you can make an e-mail introduction, that would be even better.

In either case, thank you!!

Remember, always Be UnReasonable!

Stefan

Cross-posted from Andrew Winston’s blog <http://www.andrewwinston.com/blog/2010/05/walmart_the_largest_sustainabl.php>

By: Andrew Winston, 6 May 10

The 2010 Fortune 500 list just came out and I’m completely blown away by Wal-Mart’s size. We all know that the retail giant is the largest company in the world. But it’s by how much that gets me.

Wal-Mart clocked in at $408 billion in revenues in 2009. The second-ranked Exxon Mobil, brought in $285 billion. If the difference between the two –$124 billion — were a company, it would be ranked 7th on the list. Let me say that again: Wal-Mart is bigger than the next largest company by the equivalent of an AT&T.

Let’s exclude the oil companies from the list for the moment, since their revenues depend heavily on the price of oil and swing wildly — Exxon’s revenues were over $400 billion last year. Looking at companies that make anything but oil, Wal-Mart is basically three to four times the size of the largestones, including Ford, HP, Citigroup, GM, IBM, and so on.

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Cross-posted from Triple Pundit <http://www.triplepundit.com/2010/05/green-certified-floor-space-to-grow-900-percent-worldwide-by-2020>

By: Ben Upham, 20 May 10

Space covered by green building certification programs will increase from six billion square feet in 2010 to 53 billion worldwide in 2020, according to a report out this week from Pike Research.

“Green building techniques are increasingly becoming the standard within the architecture and construction industries,” says Pike research analyst Eric Bloom.

By 2020 80 percent of green certified buildings will be in the commercial sector, according to the report, up from 73 percent today. Most commercial green certifications will be retrofits of existing buildings, while in the residential sector most certified buildings will be new construction.

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Cross-Posted from <http://www.greenscroll.org/blog/EIO-Global-Carbon-Rankings-Launch>

By: Heather Adams, 28 Mar. 10

The Environmental Investment Organisation (EIO) Ltd., an independent not-for-profit company from the U.K. is tackling climate change in a very interesting way: via ethical and environmental improvements to the financial system.

They just launched their Global Carbon Rankings System, which ranks the World’s largest companies according toabsolute greenhouse gas emissions.

Shortly, the rankings will be used to make a tradable index that will financially reward or penalize companies bases on their position in the rankings. If you’re not a trader or a Green House Gas professional, I recommend clicking here for the short movie (less three minutes) explaining how it all works. If you would like ever more information there is an online book that you can view for free here.

EIO views the climate emergency as being understated and as a result, they are doing something about it.  Now that is a cool idea!