Marc Gunther
Marc Gunther is a longtime journalist and speaker who focuses on business and sustainability. Gunther maintains a blog at MarcGunther.com. Follow him on Twitter at @marcGunther.Gunther was a senior writer at Fortune magazine for 13 years. At Fortune, he wrote cover stories about the greening of Walmart; about BYD, the Chinese electric car company backed by Warren Buffett; about Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and the 2008 financial crisis; and about spirituality in the workplace.Previously, Gunther worked for more than 20 years for newspapers including the Paterson (N.J.) News, Hartford Courant, Detroit News and Detroit Free Press. He is the author of four books, including "Faith and Fortune: How Compassionate Capitalism is Transforming American Business" (Crown 2004) and is creator and co-chair of Brainstorm Green, Fortune's annual conference on business and the environment.
Can Mud Make the Perfect Biofuel?
In the search for a clean, planet-friendly fuel, the startup Qteros has discovered and refined a microbe it calls the Q Microbe that turns biomass -- switchgrass, wood chips, grass, corn stover or even municipal liquid waste -- into ethanol. Read More
Wal-Mart's Big Problem: Climate Change
There's a fundamental problem facing Wal-Mart and the rest of corporate America: How does a company get bigger without increasing its environmental footprint? Read More
A Few 'Facts' About Green Jobs
Given all the hype about green jobs -- particularly the rosy projections about the green jobs of tomorrow -- it's welcome news when a credible source puts some facts on the table. Would you care to guess how many green jobs there are in America? Read More
IBM: CSR is Good for Business
IBM has some advice for companies that are tempted to ease up on their commitment to corporate social responsibility during the recession: Don’t. Read More
The Evolution of Laundry Detergent
GreenBiz.com Senior Writer Marc Gunther chats with Adam Lowry, the former climate scientist who started Method, at the Greener By Design conference. The two talk about the latest buzz on the 8-year-old and some of Lowry's ideas for the future. Read More
Lay's 'Local' Potato Chips
So what are we to make of the fact that Lay's potato chips now promote themselves as a locally grown food, asks Marc Gunther. Do we thank Michael Pollan for this? Read More
Aveda, Cradle to Cradle, and a Paradigm Shift in Cosmetics
(Episode 85): Marc Gunther talks with Dominique Conseil, the president of cosmetics company Aveda, about the first-ever Cradle to Cradle certification for personal care products, how innovations in packaging can shift markets, and why he's found no tensions between the company's environmental and economic goals. Read More
Google's Favorite Car Company
Think about the aerodynamics of jet plane, a sailboat and a minivan. When we build things to fly through the air or propel us through the water, we design efficient vehicles. Not so with cars. Aptera, an auto company startup, aims to change that. Read More
Grameen Shakti Brings Sustainable Development Closer to Reality in Bangladesh
Sustainable development is a phrase tossed around by the UN and global NGOs. Typically it's no more than a buzzword or, at best, a distant goal. Anyone who can actually promote development in a way that's sustainable deserves a prize. That's why Dipal Barua, the managing director of Grameen Shakti in Bangladesh, just got one. Read More
PET Project: Coke's Big Recycling Plant
Coke stages a grand opening for the world's largest bottle-to-bottle recycling plant, a $60 million joint venture of Coke and the United Resource Recovery Corp., in South Carolina this week. Read More