
“When we look at how the world’s changing, we believe that how business was done in the past is not going to work going forward. You’re starting to see board rooms and investors asking questions that they weren’t asking a few years ago.”
The Magazine for the New Economy


Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, a spin off from the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, launched yesterday in Washington, DC.
The Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES), is a new nonprofit organization promoting strong policy and action to address the twin challenges of energy and climate change. Pew Center founder and President Eileen Claussen assumes the new role of C2ES president.
Who wouldn’t want to install a solar thermal system when there’s no upfront costs?
If your business doesn’t use enough hot water—for manufacturing, cleaning or other uses—the option is to become an investor in a local project. Either way, the starting point is finding the right partners: installers and developers who know their way around the [...]

How to invest in an evolving economy?
As businesses — many of whom have record levels of cash on hand — look for new opportunities, readers and experts chime in on where to put corporate investments.

Companies, readers and analysts had a lot to say about what happened in 2011 and what it means for 2012. Read the best of the reader’s responses, along with interviews with Panasonic, Mohr Davidow, Jones Lang LaSalle, Duke Energy, Acorn Energy, and Advantage for Analysts.

For a wide range of businesses, the green economy continues to be stalled behind a lack of vision and a supporting plan. In this issue we look at a long term plan, two businesses creating new markets, and a mass movement that has lost its way.