manufacturers

Simply cutting minivan production seems to be a knee-jerk reaction to the oil crisis... does this mean oil prices will never be the same again? Are the manufacturers being too ruthless and short-sighted?

US Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez talks about the economic opportunities from deploying low-carbon energy technologies, including the growth potential from unleashing the economy from energy constraints.

INNOVATION company Papyrus Australia is positioning itself to become potentially the world's first zero-carbon paper producer. The paper is made from banana plants.

Cassandra, in a blog, points out that for all the talk of new green products, very few if any computer storage vendors seem willing to consider the environmental impact of the manufacture of their equipment. This is a fine example of an economic "externality" in action, and Cassandra is impatient with the approach.