Early estimates of the damage from hurricane Sandy are staggering. More than 100 people lost their lives in the Caribbean and the United States, more than a million homes and businesses are still without power on the East Coast, long lines persist at gas stations, and the economic toll could reach $50 billion. Read More

Russell Wilcox has helped change the way we read. Now he wants to change the way we produce nuclear power. Wilcox co-founded E Ink, the company that created and built the screens in e-readers such as Kindles and Nooks. Now he's taken the helm of another start-up out of MIT. The goal? To make a new kind of safe and efficient nuclear reactor that could run on nuclear waste. His is the first story of our relaunched series, "Visionaries." Read More

Many companies that rank high on environmental impact surveys also spend millions lobbying for policies that aren't so green, Aaron Chatterji and Michael Toffel report. Read More

A block away at the US Chamber of Commerce, Christopher Marquis of Harvard Business School says environmental concerns, though easy to ignore at first, resurface as long-term health issues that represent a significant economic cost. But grand ambitions in sustainable development also differ from other historic construction projects in that they can lead those responsible to the brink of financial ruin, and beyond. Read More

BOSTON—Harvard Business School has established a Business and Environment Initiative to deepen business leaders' understanding of today's environmental challenges and assist them in developing effective solutions. With the presidential election looming, two members of the Initiative offer their points of view. Senior Lecturer John Macomber discusses what the future may hold in terms of this country's infrastructure and funding for "environmentally friendly" cities and towns, while Associate Professor Noel Maurer points to the campaign's lack of serious attention to important environmental issues. Read More

She was a slight, soft–spoken woman who preferred walking the Maine shoreline to stalking the corridors of power. And yet Rachel Carson, the author of "Silent Spring," played a central role in starting the environmental movement, by forcing government and business to confront the dangers of pesticides. Read More

A longtime environmentalist, Paul Zofnass (MBA 1973) founded the Environmental Financial Consulting Group (EFCG) in 1990, after 17 years in finance at Citibank and at Oppenheimer (where he was managing director of investment banking). EFCG provides financial and strategic advice to the environmental and transportation engineering and consulting industry. Read More

"A couple of years ago, when I talked to businesspeople about this, they expected a price for carbon and widespread carbon trading within five years," Henderson said. "Now the number I hear is more like 10 or 15."Read More