Why I support the EPA’s Clean Power Plan | TBO.com, The Tampa Tribune and The Tampa Times: This July 28, 2014 article by Lynn Ringenberg (Professor Emeritus at USF) discusses the horrible health and wellness impacts of burning coal. “There is no such thing as clean coal.” The good news is that Natural Gas is so plentiful in the states and so very very cheap, that it is seriously supplanting coal in power plant production….
Bill Gates’s Favorite Business Book – WSJ: I was at the beach over the summer and the condo had a book by Bill Gates. I started reading it and was intrigued. I thought I had read it before, but it was still very interesting. As I’m skimming through into the second chapter, it hit me like a metric ton of CO2. This book was more than 2 decades old, 1994, The Road Ahead. Knowing how…
Can jaw-dropping visuals change the climate conversation? | GreenBiz.com: This week in the news we wave the merger of BIG tobacco. Lorillard Brands if getting bought out by Reynolds; that is, the Newport brands are getting married to a camel. This will make a formidable competitor to Altria’s Marlboro man. (I still love the genius of changing your name from Philip Morris USA to “Altria”, it makes the company sound so Alteristic!:-) So these are products, when…
Garbage-patch tale as flimsy as a single-use plastic bag – SFGate: So the GREAT Pacific Garbage Patch is not real… Or maybe not nearly as big as originally expected. Saunders does a great job of attaching the myth behind the original reports of “the size of Texas” and such. Great sources of info included. But now I’m really worried. The amount of plastic floating in the oceans amount to only (right, only) 7,000 to 35,000…
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…
Nordic Poles Boost Artery-Disease Patients’ Walking – WSJ: Lots of studies show that simply getting up and about several times a week can be really, really good for you. This is pretty cool. The use of Nordic poles significantly helped patents go longer… Okay, that’s pretty obvious… BUT it also worked the body 23% harder than normal walking. The prob with walking (and running) is that you don’t really work the upper body, so it…
