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Skeptical Science on a Skeptical Scientist: Patrick Moore on climate change

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Is there really a debate as to whether humans are contributing to Global Warming? This will take you some time, so if you are looking for a couple quick sound-bites, skip this entire post, and absolutely, skip the videos. Dr. Patrick Moore was recently pointed out to me as a qualified scientist and a active skeptic of Global Warming. Read about Moore on Wikipedia. He was an active founder of Greenpeace, but left the greenie…

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Day Light Savings Time… And Energy Efficiency… and Sustainability

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While you are are staying up late, thinking about saving time and saving money… Give a look at the past blog post here on EE and DST and California’s discussion about Daylight Savings Time. This is the heart of sustainability: things that we can do right here, right now, to move toward more sustainability. Some of them might be only small changes, like adjusting the clock to start earlier in the day, when sun gets up…

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Chris McKnett: The investment logic for sustainability | Talk Video | TED

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Chris McKnett: The investment logic for sustainability | Talk Video | TED: Chris McKnett gives a wonderful talk on investing and the idea that all investors should start looking at ESG (economic, social and governance). The economic is obvious, profits. Social is the impact to people in general, and governance is corporate social responsibility (CSR). Generally the research shows that there is no downside to being socially (and environmentally) sustainable. But in the long term,…

Becoming food independent with a short book and a small farm plot (4 x 4).

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Here’s and interesting little video — sales pitch really —  related to growing your own food. Of course you need to buy the book to really get started. I really don’t like the high-level hyperbole, but the underlying concepts are probably okay. Crisis Education, however, implies how dooms-day and shrill it sounds. I like the idea of concentrated farming, urban farming, and in-side (making your house greener) grow. Kinda makes you wander if they aren’t…

Phosphate World: New golf resort is out of the ordinary for Florida

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New golf resort is out of the ordinary for Florida: This is a great case of making lemon-aid from your excess lemons. This is a very interesting way to reclaim the past mine areas and fully benefit from the hills and water hazards. The open mining for phosphate in Florida has been an open eye sore to the tortured land in mid Florida. Huge dykes have been built up to block the view of the…

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Pain in the Ash: Spill spews tons of coal ash into NC Dan River – CNN.com

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Spill spews tons of coal ash into North Carolina’s Dan River – CNN.com: Oh what a pain it is! … A Pain in the Ash, so to speak. One of the dirty little secrets of Coal is the ash!. The massive 2008 spill in TVA should have been a bit of a wakeup call. But this phone has been ringing for centuries. There’s impurities in coal, including sulfur and heavy metals like lead and arsenic….