Top 15 Contaminated Fish You Shouldn’t be Eating: What’s the USDA recommendation for Mercury intake? If you eat some of these fish, you will exceed safe levels if you eat it more than once every couple weeks. Sharks and swordfish I new about, but others in the list are a real eye-opener. Biomagnification is where toxic chemicals such as mercury build up more and more as it moves up the food chain (to humans). This…
Here it is the United Nations water report for 2015: http://www.sustainablebrands.com/digital_learning/research_report/leadership/united_nations_world_water_development_report_2015?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=schtweets&utm_campaign=social As California suffer through water shortage, imagine what the rest of the world looks like. Now, imagine what the rest of the world will look like in the year 2050? By that time we should have moved to a population of 9 to 11 billion! The first chapter is on non-sustainable uses of water. The trends, including use of water, that are not sustainable,…
Climate-change deniers are in retreat – The Washington Post: It will be nice to move past the non-debate about is there global warming, and move off into the real debate. We are all living unsustainable lives with non-sustainable business models. What is our plan to move toward sustainability. Singly and collectively? The argument that it doesn’t do any good for us to do something if China and India continue consuming is sad and ironic. For…
Topher White: What can save the rainforest? Your used cell phone #TED : http://on.ted.com/q0TOb This is a great solution to illegal loggers. Very cool solution. The importance of rainforest deforestation may be overstated with the stats. It may not be more important than anything else… But there are several ways to look at it. Very, very important though.
The melting of Antarctica was already really bad. It just got worse. http://wapo.st/19rU1xp Wow. Another area, like the west of antartcica, could result in massive ice melt from the ocean side up! Each shelf/sheet could add about 10 feet to ocean rise, maybe 25% more for the northern hemisphere. Ouch!
Don’t Confuse Sustainability with CSR | Ivey Business Journal: Definition of sustainability — essentially not imposing additional costs on the future — is quite different from Corporate Social Responsibility, which looks at balancing the needs of all current constituents. This is a very cool article that addresses the key issues that differentiate sustainability from CSR. Even though sustainability is overused and frequently missuses, it is a better term to use and a better utopia to aim for. “It is time…
