“A vegan in a Hummer has a lighter carbon footprint than a beef eater in a Prius,” claims food writer Michael Pollan. Do the numbers add up?

A dead baby albatross is a tough act to follow. Nike’s Lorrie Vogel took the stage at Poptech this week to talk about the company’s sustainable product design efforts. But talk about a tough room!

Photographer Chris Jordan shares a sobering tale of his journey to Midway Atoll, where he captured horrifying images of baby birds killed by ingesting plastic from the Pacific Trash Gyre.

As part of Reuters new Green Business section, we have chosen a diverse group of companies to serve as a proxy for the emerging green technology sector. Over the coming months we’ll be discussing each of them at length, and rebalancing our portfolio to reflect trends in the industry.

Caps on smart-grid stimulus funds, Al Gone on the moral imperative of climate change action, and a bike-powered Earth Day conference.

With government money flowing in and traditional industries fading fast, 2009 is set to be a watershed year for green business. Reuters News and Venture Capital Journal have selected five decisionmakers who will help to decide the course of technology, energy usage and climate change in the years to come.