There is still time before winter hits to create a sustainable home both indoors and outdoors. With these ideas you will be saving the environment one project at a time.
Go Solar
Since 2013 the solar industry has grown 30 percent and has no plans of slowing down. (more…)
Frequent commenter Glenn Doty, one of the brightest and best-informed people I’ve ever met, writes this in response to my piece on the Obama Administration’s cancelling all offshore drilling leases in our Arctic Ocean for the next two years and denying Shell’s and Statoil’s requests for their Arctic leases to be extended: (more…)
It wasn’t but a couple of years ago that I was in a funk about the Obama Administration and the meager progress it had made on environmental issues. I’m so happy to be eating my words, based on what’s happened recently, e.g., the Department of Interior’s cancelling all offshore drilling leases in our Arctic Ocean for the next two years.
From the Sierra Club: (more…)
A reader notes: We had a new advanced technology of the Biomass treatment for pro-Ethanor; according to reactor fine-milling of attrition autogenaous with criated a mechano-chemical reaction and use of the ions solution by bactericide catalytic TiO2-Complex Ag base.
Holy smokes. I couldn’t make this up. (Actually, I suppose I could, but I didn’t.) That’s real, authentic technobabble, along the lines of this classic.
There are so many trends related to energy efficiency in our world today that I remain optimistic that, taken as a whole, all these factors that enable us to use less energy per capita will offset the growing population, and the Asians’ demand to live like us energy-hogging Westerners.
A great example of this is electric-assisted bicycles, sales of which continue to go through the roof. I decided to skip the InterBike show last month in Las Vegas, but I checked out some of the highlights, which I present here.
I make go/no-go decisions re: attending conferences the way anyone else does. I’m motivated to go if:
• I’m invited to speak
• It’s close, i.e., a drive as opposed to a plane ride (more…)
According to the Writer’s Almanac, it’s the 90th birthday of American political humorist Art Buchwald (pictured). They write:
Buchwald began writing political satire when President Eisenhower made a trip to France. His humorous articles caught the attention of Eisenhower’s press secretary, who called the pieces “unadulterated rot.” Buchwald answered back, “I have been known to write adulterated rot, but never unadulterated rot.” After this, he moved back to the United States and began writing political satire full-time. Buchwald said, “If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.” (more…)
Frequent commenter Cameron Atwood writes: For those concerned about how messaging is communicated, I’d suggest that people need to replace the ambiguous and lukewarm phrases “climate change” and “global warming” with the far more accurate, evocative and impactful words “anthropogenic climate disruption.”
I know you feel that we need the new moniker “anthropogenic climate disruption,” and I agree with your reasoning. However–and this may sound cowardly–but I refrain from using that phrase until Bill McKibben, James Hansen, et al., are calling it that. In other words, I let the climate scientists name the phenomena they are studying.
I’m reminded of my soccer coaching days, when my son would complain about a ref’s call, and I’d yell to him from the sideline, “Jake. Knock it off. He’s the ref. You play. He refs.”
Every business has a huge obligation to reduce the carbon footprint of their operation. Thankfully many businesses are starting to take that seriously and realise the financial benefits of doing so from good brand PR and cost saving benefits. One of the areas in which all businesses can easily improve upon is their usage of paper, most of which is unnecessary. (more…)
Last spring, many of us petitioned Delta Airlines, as the major air transportation provider between Africa and the US, to refuse to ship the carcasses of lions, elephants, rhinoceros, tigers, etc., as a deterrent to those, tragically born without consciences, who would shoot the few remaining members of these species and take their corpses back home to stuff and mount as trophies.
The good news: we won. Better said: Delta, regardless of the degree to which public pressure was a factor, did the right thing and has set in place new policy to the effect that it will not accept such cargo. (more…)
