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From Guest Blogger Brooke Chaplan: Changing the Future–Careers that Impact the Environment

brookechaplanPosted on March 23, 2016 Posted in Sustainability

Sustainability is one of the most pressing issues today. The largest impact of global warming has fallen onto the shoulders of millennials, and there are many who now wish to find careers that won’t just pay their bills, but will also help them save our planet. If you have a passion for Earth and want to find a job that will allow you to come up with the environmental solutions of the future, check out these four careers and see if there’s a match for you. (more…)

Tagged with: environment, sustainable

Quick Note on Compassion

craigshieldsPosted on March 23, 2016 Posted in Sustainability

I came across this just now in connection with the terrorist attacks in Belgium, a reminder of human compassion from the late, great Fred Rogers:

“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’ To this day, especially in times of ‘disaster,’ I remember my mother’s words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers – so many caring people in this world.” (more…)

Tagged with: Fred Rogers:, human compassion

From Guest Blogger Sam Conway: The Difference Between LED and Halogen Home Lighting

Sam ConwayPosted on March 23, 2016 Posted in Efficiency

With all of us on an energy-saving mission to reduce our household running costs as well as reduce the impact on the environment, it can be difficult to know what to do to save electricity. The tips provided here was written by Meteor Electrical , They wanted to put light bulbs to the test and determine what’s better: LED or Halogen spotlights. (more…)

Tagged with: energy efficiency, halogen lighting, home lighting, led light bulbs

Certain Animals are Super-Beneficial on Their Entire Ecosystem–and Even the Surrounding Geography

craigshieldsPosted on March 22, 2016 Posted in Renewables - Science

If you don’t know what a ”trophic cascade” is, you can find out in the wonderful video below. Better yet, you’ll see one in action.

Recently I wrote a post about beavers and their salubrious effect on the environment. This is along the same vein, though it deals with wolves. I hope you’ll enjoy it and learn as much from it as I did. (more…)

Tagged with: ecosystems, environment

From Guest Blogger Lana Hawkins: Sustainable Homes: Ways to Bring Natural and Organic Elements into Your Interiors

lanajhawkinsPosted on March 22, 2016 Posted in Sustainable Building

Advanced technology, smartphones and lots of artificial products have made us feel that the future is here. Everybody forgot the importance of nature and that we need to cherish it. Do not be such a person, reunite with nature again and welcome it into your home by introducing some organic and natural elements. Not only will these look great in your home, but will provide you with a healthier atmosphere.

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Tagged with: interior design, natural materials, sustainability

More on Subsidies for the Oil Companies

craigshieldsPosted on March 22, 2016 Posted in Renewables - Business

A reader comments on my post on subsidies for the oil companies. Thanks for the additional clarity Craig. Your charts also do not allow for infrastructural benefits. The oil lobby weighed in heavily in favor of our national highway system. This has been cited as part of the demise of the railroads. Many today can’t imagine a world without the interstate road system just as they cannot imagine a world without oil.

Let me start by stating the obvious: this whole conversation on subsidies is very wide-ranging and not amenable to exact defined boundaries. (more…)

Tagged with: $800B defense budget (larger than the next 16 countries' budgets combined), Big Oil owns the US Congress, global warming, healthcare expenses associated with breathing the aromatics of burned hydrocarbons, long-term environmental damage, loss of biodiversity, National Highway System, ocean acidification, subsidies for the oil companies

US Federal Government Subsidies for the Oil Companies

craigshieldsPosted on March 22, 2016 Posted in Renewables - Business

A reader brings up the ongoing squabble of the size of the subsidies the US taxpayer bestows upon the fossil fuel companies each year. Not surprisingly, those sympathetic to Big Oil like to dispute the numbers proffered by clean energy advocates, and suggest that they are myths. (more…)

Tagged with: Environmental Law Institute, Renewable Energy Facts and Fantasies, subsidies fossil fuel companies, US oil industry receives billions in taxpayer subsidies

A How-To Book on Generating Creative Concepts and Getting To that “Aha!” Moment

craigshieldsPosted on March 21, 2016 Posted in Renewables - Business

One of my best friends, and certainly one of the smartest people I’ve ever met, sent me this:

Hi Craig, When we last talked, I mentioned this amazing book on strategy, Strategic Intuition, written by a professor at Columbia. He explains that all strategy methods and books are based on analyzing a strategy or implementing a strategy, but methods or books explain how to come up with the idea in the first place. He studied entrepreneurial thinkers in business and in social movements and found the answer. You will enjoy it both from a business viewpoint and from a social movement perspective. This book changed my life; I think you’ll love it too. (more…)

Tagged with: professional inventor, Strategic Intuition

How Big a Deal is the Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure?

craigshieldsPosted on March 21, 2016 Posted in Electric Vehicles

A reader comments on my post in which I predicted a fairly rapid adoption of EVs and a corresponding diminution of internal combustion engines: such an event requires advances in technology and infrastructure that don’t currently exist.