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Sea levels set for a ‘continuing rise’ for generations…The Daily Climate … Like baking a cake.

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Sea levels set for a ‘continuing rise’ for generations — The Daily Climate: So here’s the story. It’s already baked into the cake. The current setting has sea levels rising for decades. Even if we all went to carbon neutral tomorrow. The basics are that greenhouse gasses will persist in the atmosphere for decades, even centuries. The most prevalent is Carbon Dioxide (CO2) which will stay in the atmosphere for 70 years, maybe 100. So,…

Companies Search For Ways To Mine Uranium Outside Grand Canyon National Park | KRWG

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Companies Search For Ways To Mine Uranium Outside Grand Canyon National Park | KRWG: Uranium and Nuclear power. So very much cleaner than coal. But, we have no plan, even to make a plan, to deal with the radioactive waste. Right now it is all being stored on site like the Fukushima reactor in Japan. They had an entire reactor devoted to waste storage. The best plan that I have ever seen is to take the nuclear…

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This Company Just Admitted Its Business Model Is Broken – AMZN, NFLX, P, SIRI – Foolish Blogging Network

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This Company Just Admitted Its Business Model Is Broken – AMZN, NFLX, P, SIRI – Foolish Blogging Network: Broken as designed. It is always fun to see a business model that is broken. How long before the company run out of cash? This is reminiscent of the DotCom Bomb where all these Internet companies had no income and no profits. They got lots of funding, though. So this run through of cash was referred to…

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EarthDay2013: Reflections on Sustainability: Earth Day, April 22, 2013

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Reflections on Sustainability: Earth Day, April 22, 2013 (www.EarthDay.org) … (or International Mother Earth Day) Earth Day 2013: The Face of Climate Change It’s not so much that people don’t care. . . Being green, and being sustainable, is something that we all would happily do, if it wasn’t inconvenient to do so. And if it was easy to do. And if we knew the best place to start. And if it wasn’t too complicated to do…

Wisdom for Kids from Warren Buffet. Even the Gov might understand.

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Warren Buffet had these pearls of wisdom to share with Kids: Never spend more than you have. Save for the unexpected Never borrow without a payback plan I like it. Short. Sweet. Accurate. Simple… Sustainable even. So simple even a caveman could understand it. I’m thinking that we need to transmit this repeatedly up to our friends in the Federal Government (and maybe even to the States). Never spend more than you have. Boy do we break this rule….

Good Jobs, Green Jobs National Conference

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Good Jobs, Green Jobs National Conference: Well, shouldn’t they all be GREEN jobs? Looking for a few good jobs. Looking for a few green jobs. Looking for a few Good GREEN Jobs.:-) Before the recession, green jobs were outpacing others, both in terms of pay and number. It will be interesting to see what the conference stats have to say about this. Of course, there are about 50 shades of green!… Seems like a book,…