Franz Beyeler, Nick Beglinger, and Ursina Roder Minergie: The Swiss Sustainable Building Standard Minergie is a sustainable building standard recognized globally for its effectiveness in achieving lower energy and resource consumption and a higher level…
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Henry L. Green
Henry L. Green High-Performance Buildings The built environment forms a backbone that is critical to maintaining and enhancing economic growth, competitiveness, productivity, and quality of life. The construction industry in the United States contributes more…
Vinod Khosla
Vinod Khosla Whose Rules? Terms of Discussions Around a Global Cap-and-Trade System Global climate change is accelerating like a runaway truck. The conventional wis- dom is simple: the U.S. does not want to participate in…
James H. Turner Jr., Ellen Vaughan, and Colin McCormick
James H. Turner Jr., Ellen Vaughan, and Colin McCormick Moving Toward High-Performance Buildings At the end of May 2009, a group of 60 prominent scientists and other notables in attendance at the St. James’s Palace…
Tariq Rauf and Zoryana Vovchok
Tariq Rauf and Zoryana Vovchok Assurance of Supply: A New Framework for Nuclear Energy The increase in global energy demands and pressing concerns over climate change are driving a potential expansion in the use of…
Matthew Bunn and Martin B. Malin
Matthew Bunn and Martin B. Malin Enabling a Nuclear Revival— And Managing Its Risks As John Holdren points out in the introduction to this Innovations special issue, the world will need to produce huge quantities…
M. Granger Morgan
M. Granger Morgan Carbon Capture and Sequestration: How Can It Succeed Commercially? Innovations Case Discussion: Powerspan Corp. In a market economy, people innovate because they think they can develop a com- parative advantage selling a…
Frank Alix
Frank Alix Taking Out the CO2 Powerspan Helps Utilities Capture Carbon at the Source Innovations Case Narrative: Powerspan Corp. As indications of global climate change and its inherent risks have become more apparent, the urgency…
Daniel M. Kammen
Daniel M. Kammen Incremental and Transformational Change Innovations Case Discussion: Better Place Shai Agassi’s story of his evolving personal interest in energy issues, and the evolv- ing business plan of his electric vehicle company, Better…
Thomas C. Schelling
Thomas C. Schelling International Coordination to Address the Climate Challenge Climate change is real, but its future is marked with uncertainties. We cannot pre- dict the kinds of societies that will be faced with the…