The unintended consequences of helping out where help may not be needed: your fav garden birds.
More than three in four Americans believe in global warming – UPI.com: Finally. Even republicans have shifted to a majority accepting climate change. This is not a party thing; this is a human thing. Once people start to realize that the earth is warming. And that people are generally responsible. There tends to be a some obvious actions that we all must do, soon or later. Sustainability is a law of nature that it is…
Read The EV Hurricane Disaster: a 1-sided scenario on our sister blog ScenarioPlans.com (also DelphiPlan.com). The EV disaster article analyzes a viral email that talks about how horrible it will be when a hurricane is storming into a population center and the electric vehicles are all stuck on the road with no possibility for charging. The unauthored and undated email makes the implied conclusion that we shouldn’t go to EVs because they could be problematic in…
A Year for the Record Books | Planet3.0: ‘via Blog this’ This to us from MacDonald from GreenDistrict… It is one of several places to start rounding up the status of sustainability (gain &) loss for 2011 and start to plan for 2012. As we start to organize the (un)balanced scorecard for an unsustainable year of horrific sustainability numbers… ?What would be a good summary for the year, even if the summary has a lot…
Every couple months something pops into my news feed or email about how bad or expensive Electric Vehicles (EVs) are compared to the olde Internal Combustion Engine (ICE machines). (See cartoon from Yale Climate Connection Don’t be fooled: Electric vehicles really are better for the climate.) One that popped up was from a very biased web site (can’t call it a magazine or journal). The cost for EVs to operate were $17 per gallon, equivalent….
Efforts Grow to Take the Sting Out of the Bee Die-Off – WSJ: Generally, the topics discussed here aim to look at the sustainability of trends or activities. CCD is worrisome on many levels of sustainability. This is an interesting update on the Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) of bee hives world wide. Look at the ugly research related to the mix of pesticides and fungicides that seem to cause the demise of bee hives. (See…
[Update. The Inflation Reduction Act 2022 has raised and extended the 30% investment tax credit to qualified investments. There are many limitations and additions. See our Blog post here. This makes all the financial discussions below much more profitable. Also, higher inflation and higher power inflation. The below Article was originally published in Summer of 2020.] SBP has done several detailed financial calculators for analyzing both residential and commercials solar projects. SustainZine has a main web…
