FPL gets approval to charge customers for fracking investment | Tampa Bay Times: I was astounded to here that FPL is getting into the Fracking business. There’s this baloney about trying to save some money for their investors. FPL Customers pay, in advance, to drill Nat Gas wells in Alabama, and then reap some of the benefits of the wells, if any, in the form of low NatGas prices in the future. It sounds too…
GreenBiz 2015 | GreenBiz Conferences, Feb 17-19, 2015: This is a very cool Sustainability/GreenBiz forum lineup. In Phoenix, in February. Listen to some of the big companies out there including Unilever, J&J, Target, Levi’s, adidas,… I like some of the discussion on metrics and ROI from sustainability… Seems like such a good place to start. Should be fun. Also, if you are associated with Gov or Edu or ?Org? you might be eligible for a…
WMO Warns Lima Delegates, 2014 … Hottest Year in History!:-( | Climate Central: Ouch, this is really really ugly, the data related to 2014 as the hottest year in modern history. Double to the angst is the melt-off of the Antarctic. Here’s a discussion about both. The period between April and September, according to NASA GISS was the hottest in 120 years. Most (?all?) of the months since April will set all time heat highs, as well….
2014 could become the hottest year on record – CBS News: We should start to find out soon if another El Nino is coming our way. That is the weather formation in the Pacific that changes and directs the worlds weather in a BIG way. Apparently if El Nino forms, then this year will blast through all recorded records, and next year should be record setting as well. It offers up massive droughts in some…
http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2014/11/the-intergovernmental-panel-on-climate-change-top-10-charts/?utm_content=bufferf5770&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer The new IPCC report on Climate Change. It is a little bit of a long read… The report spends some time on probabilities, including what “business as usual” looks. BAU gets ugly, and uglier, and ugliest. Starting early, not later, seems to make sense…!!!
When They Brought These Wolves Into The Park, They Had No Idea This Would Happen YouTube Video. When the government reintroduced Wolves back into the Yellow Stone area (National Park) they had no idea how it would work. This is one of the most enlightening videos you will ever see related to biodiversity and good/natural/sustainable ecosystems. In this case, this is recreating a more sustainable ecosystem from the past… … But we as a people…
