"Meaningful" agreement in Copenhagen? I don't think so

The only value I see from the "agreement" -- that the countries should set a goal of limiting temperature rise to 2 degrees C., and tell each other how they're going to do it-- is that it reveals the pettiness, parochialism of all the big countries. Which we knew going in. A few million people (judging by the participation in various online and in-person protests) were hoping for a different discovery. Not today.

Green Metrics: Don't Get Lost in the um, Grass...

Andrew Winston, co-author of Green to Gold and the new Green Recovery, says in Harvard Business Review online that the typical detailed and multi-layered, multi-sourced effort to measure a company's or a product's carbon impact is tough and expensive, especially now. Not to worry! Get it directionally right, back-of-envelope close, and/or borrow from other industries' work and you'll at least know where to focus your efforts.