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Joel Makower Latest Posts

Exxon, the Rockefellers, and the Future of Big Oil
Last week, the Rockefeller family made an historic challenge to Exxon Mobil Corp., the company founded by John D. Rockefeller in 1870 (as Standard Oil), and in which dozens of family members still hold stock. The challenge came in the form of a shareholder resolution to require an independent... Read more...
Published 1 week ago

The 2008 Shareholder Season
Some of the most important voting of the year doesn't involve candidates or political parties. It's taking place between shareholders and the companies they own. It has become an annual rite of spring: a bumper crop of shareholder resolutions filed by activist investors aimed at compelling... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

GreenBiz and GreenYour: Something Old, Something New
Something old is new again. GreenBiz.com, of which I am executive editor, has just relaunched with a new, improved format. The new site " the result of a revamping of the somewhat antiquated technology platform on which the site was originally built in 1999 " now reflects the topics you deal with... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

Earth Day, Green Marketing, and the Polling of America, 2008
It's time for my (second) annual survey of surveys " the bounty of public opinion polls on green topics that seems to sprout every spring in time for Earth Day. A half-dozen or so years ago, there were perhaps a couple such surveys. Today, there are more than a dozen, ranging from substantive to... Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago

A Deeper Dive into the Business of Water
Water hasn't yet risen to the level of energy and climate as a pressing issue for most companies, but the conversation seems to be flowing lately. And that conversation includes two concepts likely to enter the green lexicon. One of those, "virtual water," received currency last month... Read more...
Published 1 month ago

The Death and Rebirth of "50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth"
50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth is back in print, updated for the 21st century. If that doesn't send a mild shiver down your spine, then you are under 25 years old. If you somehow didn't catch the early 1990s, 50 Simple Things, published a few months in advance of Earth Day 1990,... Read more...
Published 2 months ago

Where Are All the Clean, Green Jobs?
The promise of the green economy and the clean-tech revolution is that they will bring a new wave of job opportunities " productive and respectable jobs at every part of the economic spectrum, from line workers to senior managers. Nonprofit groups like the Apollo Alliance have made this part of... Read more...
Published 2 months ago

Clean Energy Trends 2008
The latest annual edition of Clean Energy Trends has just been published. My colleagues and I at Clean Edge have identified five key trends affecting clean-energy markets and produced our annual forecast of markets for four clean-energy technologies. And, working with our partners at New Energy... Read more...
Published 2 months ago

Green Corporate Communications: The Unstoppable Urge to Talk the Talk
I've spent the past few weeks on the road talking about the State of Green Business, listening to the questions and concerns of audiences at the companies and conferences I've addressed. There's one constant query: In a world gone green, how does a company make itself heard, credibly and... Read more...
Published 3 months ago

The State of Green Business, 2008
My colleagues and I at GreenBiz.com have just published State of Green Business 2008, an accounting for how, and how much, the greening of business is moving the needle on environmental issues. The simple answer: not much " and certainly not enough. I'd been thinking about this report for a... Read more...
Published 3 months ago

Clorox Aims to Show that 'Green Works'
Can a major consumer packaged goods company with a name indelibly associated with household bleach become a leading light in the green marketplace? That's the hope of Clorox, the Oakland-based company, which this week is launching its first new brand in twenty years: Green Works, a line of... Read more...
Published 4 months ago

News Flash: 110% of Consumers Shop Green!
This just in: pretty much every consumer is concerned about the environment and is thinking conscientiously about what they buy " how it's made, under what conditions, and by whom. All you have to do is make good, green stuff and they'll buy it! We've reached the tipping point! Sound too good to... Read more...
Published 4 months ago