BAMS State of the Climate | National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) formerly known as National Climatic Data Center (NCDC): State of the Climate: Earth fails another annual physical. Or, maybe better stated, human activity resulted in another horrible annual reading of Earths temps. Beyond time to move Earth from a Private room to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Unfortunately, 2015 blasted past all records set in 2014. The El Nino effect help somewhat, and…
[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…
It is Earth Day, April 22. Earth Day 54 since the first in 1970. (Earth Day Quiz below… Visit EarthDay.org or Wikipedia: Earth Day for more.) Wow. The population was about 3.7b, now more than 8b. But as worldwide life span increases and wealth increases so does lifetime consumption. We employed our fav GenAIs to chat about it… and to generate some graphics. This is the overview with the prompts: there are two blog posts…
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…
(This was originally published as sister site SustainZine. Note the discussion of Earth Day related charities below.) [With AI contribution from Bard.] I got my buddy Bard (AI from Google) to help with two blogs: World Water Day 2023: Accelerating Change in March and Earth Day 2023: Invest in our Planet in April (this blog post).
Virtual Event Program | GreenBiz: BIG VERGE conference starts today. Put on by Green Biz. Virtual if you want to have a baby footprint on a great meeting. The travel time is a little less than going to San Francisco (although you will miss the foods and sounds and local color). This is a really interesting mix… Including some big companies and some disrupters. ‘via Blog this’
