Will the major water main break in the D.C. area this week incentivize Congress to deal with our aging infrastructure? That’s one heck of a way to commemorate World Water Day (Friday, March 22nd). When it hits home, people take notice. The water and sewage system in the D.C. area is between 77 and 100… Continue reading Water Pressures Rise Just in Time for World Water Day; U.S. Gets a ‘D’
“This is the first time I’m introducing Bill when I didn’t in some way work for him,” Linda J. Fisher, Chief Sustainability Officer at DuPont said, “So the gloves are off!” Listening to Fisher and the other speakers at the Inaugural William K. Reilly Fund for Environmental Governance and Leadership Awards event at American University’s… Continue reading Ten Leadership Lessons from the William K. Reilly “School”
Oh, it was the National Archives in Washington, D.C. last night. There’s got to be a joke in there somewhere…. They’re all white men, reminding us that Sheryl Sandberg is right: men still rule the world. We hope that will soon change and when I mentioned during the Q&A that I look forward a woman… Continue reading So Five Former Chiefs of Staff Walk Into a Bar….
I guess that few would admit now to locking their cars doors abruptly or clutching their purse tightly when the younger Barack Obama approached. But someone did, as the president explained in the White House press room with his soliloquy on being treated as a threat simply for being a young black male and what… Continue reading The Face to Fear
The president’s climate action plan that he recently outlined at Georgetown University has something in it for almost everybody. The Georgetown University audience of mostly young people applauded several times during the president’s speech. Their applause is a good sign for the President because his approval among this 18-29 year old cohort dropped 17 points… Continue reading What About Us?
A “to-do” list of how to create a post-carbon economy evolved from the remarks of an array of innovators from business, politics and Hollywood at the 2013 Climate Leadership Gala the other night at the Renaissance Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC. From Sir Richard Branson, to Elon Musk CEO and founder of Tesla Motors and… Continue reading Innovating in a Post-Carbon Economy: Richard Branson, Elon Musk, Energy Secretary Moniz and Ambassador Melanne Verveer Come Together in DC
Global Government Relations Leader for GE Water & Process Technologies, Freedman argues that water reuse is essential for the world’s future water security and to protect the environment. We live in a world where some one billion people in 43 countries inhabit areas that are chronically short of water. Here in the United States, 36… Continue reading Jon Freedman: On the Importance of Water Reuse
How do we make solid, faster progress in solving the world’s most intractable problems? According to the Clinton Global Initiative the past few days, we have to (a) collaborate; (b) think holistically; (c) circumvent obstacles to progress (including the U.S. Congress); (d) design the most user-friendly way, (e) measure it, and (f) “address the strategic… Continue reading Reinventing the Model for Solving Global Ills – Six Lessons from the Clinton Global Initiative 2012
Jessyca Henderson, Managing Director, Policy and Community Relations at The American Institute of Architects (AIA) tells us – and how women are taking sustainable building by storm. Listen to Jessyca Henderson here:
by Rebecca Lefton Rio +20, the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, is renewing international conversations about how to simultaneously address poverty, protect the environment, and maintain balanced economic growth. If progress is to be made, the agenda must reflect that achieving gender equality is intimately tied to achieving these other goals, as well as being… Continue reading Assault On Women’s Reproductive Rights And Gender Equality At Rio+20
