Why Environmental Policies Don't Kill Jobs

Forbes ^ | 9/09/2011 @ 10:46AM | Mindy Lubber

[dila813]

Mindy Lubber is so confused, capitalism by definition is sustainable. Resources both Materials and Labor our represented as money....and have been for the last 8000 years.

If you ever wanted to say hello to one of these snake salesmen, this is your chance

Contributor Mindy Lubber

I'm the president of Ceres, a national non-profit that works with Fortune 500 companies and institutional investors to integrate sustainability into day-to-day business practices. In my job I bring diverse economic players together to find common ground on the immense sustainability challenges we face and the scalable solutions we need. I joined Ceres in 2003 and have worn many different hats in my 30+ career--from activist to litigator to founder of the first green mutual fund to the Northeast Regional Administrator of the EPA. Despite the constant churn of gloomy news, I am unswervingly bullish and optimistic about the prospects for building a sustainable global economy. The trends are irrefutable; clean tech solutions are here. And study after study shows sustainability is profitable. It's a matter of time--but we've got to move fast.

[hsalaw]

we can be the ones to build everything from fuel-efficient cars

Sure, we can build anything - we're Americans. The problem is no one wants to buy these cr*ppy cars except self-absorbed libs and Hollywoodites who also have a big gas guzzler in the garage.

[nerdwithagun]

Wow, this woman is a bullshit artist. Anybody know if she is activley working hand in hand with the hard line enviro-commies or does she believe her own bullshit?

[FlingWingFlyer]

I'm the president of Ceres, a national non-profit that works with Fortune 500 companies and institutional investors to integrate sustainability into day-to-day business practices. In my job I bring diverse economic players together to find common ground on the immense sustainability challenges we face and the scalable solutions we need. I joined Ceres in 2003 and have worn many different hats in my 30+ career--from activist to litigator to founder of the first green mutual fund to the Northeast Regional Administrator of the EPA. Despite the constant churn of gloomy news, I am unswervingly bullish and optimistic about the prospects for building a sustainable global economy. The trends are irrefutable; clean tech solutions are here. And study after study shows sustainability is profitable. It's a matter of time--but we've got to move fast.

That's a long-winded way to say someone is a liberal ditz.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

If she's so bullish on green, then there really should be no need for subsidies.

Give 'em up, and you can do all the green you want, Sweetie.

[JaguarXKE]

“If we provide the right incentives and support,”

Oh, you mean like ethanol subsidies? It is not the government's place to try and shape the free market. If there is a market for something , the market will fill the need. How's that solar plant you showcased working out for ya, Mr Obama? You know, the one that just filed bankruptcy after getting millions in subsidized loans and is now under investigation my the FBI.

[Azeem]

She’s not confused. She knows her gravy train is about to dry up.

Dear Mindy,

‘Solyndra’

Case closed. Go get a real job.

[muawiyah]

At least 12,000 years. You fur shur didn’t get to set up your family totem at that old temple site in Turkey without paying off the local shamen and their chieftains.

[dila813]

Yep, her entire livelihood depends on this snake oil

[coloradan]

“That solar panel deal worked out just fine for me. I got $500 million of YOUR money into the hands of MY peeps, come what may.” -Obama

[dila813]

I did some quick scanning.

She appears to be a professional go between.

Kind of a interface between all the green NGOs and the nexus of Public Pension Investments by the States and Big Business.

So now you know why big business didn’t yell in scream as much this time then when Carter tried to pull all this green dream stuff in the past.

They had the majority of their investors pushing them to comply.

Well, that isn’t fair, I mean, it was the Pension Fund Administrators representing the Pensioners that actually did this.

[andy58-in-nh]

Guess who is among Ceres' shareholders?

Soros Private Equity Partners.

Shocked, aren't you?

[dila813]

OH I AM

I had no idea!

Never even thought to look

[cripplecreek]

“If we provide the right incentives and support,”

How bout we level the playing field and slash taxes for everybody. If green is good it will thrive on a level playing field.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Mindy Lubber can waste her own damned money.

[Wonder Warthog]

"Oh, you mean like ethanol subsidies? It is not the government's place to try and shape the free market. If there is a market for something , the market will fill the need.

That's a nice "free-market" screed, but unfortunately, the facts of history don't agree with you. The USA has acted to "shape the free market" since Washington's administration. Canals and roads, and later railroads and air travel (and many, many other activities). Government at all levels has participated in those "shaping" activities. Where current thinking goes wrong is that government should directly CONTROL the direction of the market by passage of laws restricting activity to a government mandated single solution, rather than placing multiple "bets" in a general direction.

[ken21]

and this is a business magazine?

[andy58-in-nh]

Here are a couple of links to help you see what they are up to:

http://www.ceres.net/Investors/Investors-Equity.html

http://farmlandgrab.org/post/view/19056/

[umgud]

Obama is right on both fronts. Clean policies not only offer necessary protections, they stimulate jobs...... more gov't regulators, lawyers, etc.

[samtheman]

Mindy Lubber is a libber and a fibber too.