Cree Likes its LEDs… Helps colleges and others save lots of money & energy.

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San Diego Community College District – San Diego, CA San Diego Community College District is the recipient of the APPA’s 2015 Sustainability Award recognizing and advancing sustainability excellence in educational facilities. An CREE want a little school credit. The upgrades used Cree® LED lighting upgrade with SmartCast® Technology. Looks good. In the meanwhile, Ikea stores are moving to only selling LED lights by 2016. Read here about Idea’s LED ideas.  They argue that about 20% of electric energy…

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Ain’t no Global Warming Here. {insert your facts here}

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In comes another commentary saying 10 reasons why there is definitely no such thing as global warming. This one includes evidence that the mooses (moose population) are doing much better. Huh!… I simply direct people to look at the multiple databases of actual real-live data related to each and every conceivable measure of global warming. Look at the data yourself. Draw it out, and then start discarding junk that misrepresents the facts. There are between…

Obama to Unveil Tougher Environmental Plan With His Legacy in Mind – The New York Times

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Obama to Unveil Tougher Environmental Plan With His Legacy in Mind – The New York Times: There’s some good and some bad about this. We really should have an energy policy in the country, but we don’t. And the congress should be doing that planning and guiding of long-term energy and economic development. But no. The video says saving on energy. That’s not true, it will cost more for energy, the massive savings will come…

Sweden’s Prostitution Solution: Why Hasn’t Anyone Tried This Before? | Solutions

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Sweden’s Prostitution Solution: Why Hasn’t Anyone Tried This Before? | Solutions: Here is an novel approach to prostitution. Who do you put in jail/prison, the John or the Jane. This Swedish approach didn’t decriminalize prostitution, which apparently has it’s own problems. It totally decriminalized for the prostitute, but criminalized for the John. Read the logic and how surprisingly well it has worked since 1999. Also, what it took to support this change in mindset. And…

Sustainability becomes a business law: Organic is more productive

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Sustainability becomes a business law: Two things resurfaced over the last couple days. One is very local to Florida related to Sustainability is the Business Law. It looks at the focus of sustainability from the business view, or from the environmental view; which is the right view. And the answer, of course, is “Yes”.  Aiming for a win, win in the business vs. environment tug of war. The old approach of win-lose turns out to…

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BIG BP payout settlement of $18.7

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BP to Pay $18.7 Billion to Settle Deepwater Horizon Spill Claims http://www.wsj.com/articles/bp-agrees-to-pay-18-7-billion-to-settle-deepwater-horizon-oil-spill-claims-1435842739 Put a huge amount of the BP litigation behind it. This would be the same as all the profits that the company has made since 2012. However the payment schedule is 1.1 million dollars per year. Yes, BP was pretty irresponsible back then. But it still makes one wonder what if it were not such a big company that can afford to make…