Ryder CSR reporting. Easy(ier) then BIG initiatives

Ryder CSR reporting. Easy(ier) then BIG initiatives

BySustainMe

Ryder corporation has released its Corporate Sustainability Report for last 2021. They seem to be making more progress than many organizations, especially in the transportation industry. But their environment is one of the hardest to move to zero emissions. Long-haul trucking will be around for a long time and switching from diesel is difficult. All of the reporting creates fodder for anyone on the left, right or center to hammer on endlessly. See the Ryder…

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Earth Day 2022 Who Killed the Electric Car?

BySustainMe

 Earth Day 2022 (April 22, ’22) Who Killed the Electric Car? The statistics and the forecasts for Global Warming and Climate Change are increasingly dire. The decision – and it is a decision – to do business as usual (buy big gas guzzlers) is becoming increasingly costly to the world. And the window to avoid the worst warming scenarios is closing. The CO2 and methane that we have been pumping into the atmosphere will persist for…

Planting trees and getting reforestation right

BySustainMe

Reforestastion in order to bring back something similar to native forest, and to draw down carbon dioxide levers, is actually rather tricky. You can’t plant a monosystem of, say, pine tries, especially if they are not native.  One cool approach is to take acorns from an anchient native oak tree as one of 27+ natives in a reforestation areas. Check out this detailed article on BBC, 1,000-year-old oaks used to create ‘super forest’, by Hellen…

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The EV Hurricane Disaster: a 1-sided scenario, part 2

BySustainMe

Read  The EV Hurricane Disaster: a 1-sided scenario on our sister blog ScenarioPlans.com (also DelphiPlan.com). The EV disaster article analyzes a viral email that talks about how horrible it will be when a hurricane is storming into a population center and the electric vehicles are all stuck on the road with no possibility for charging. The unauthored and undated email makes the implied conclusion that we shouldn’t go to EVs because they could be problematic in…

When are Bird Feeders Bad Feeders?

BySustainMe

The unintended consequences of helping out where help may not be needed: your fav garden birds. (Along the same line is humming birds, if you don’t keep the feeder water clean and safe, you might be endangering all those hummers you were trying to encourage.) Sustainability means doing the right thing, as well as making sure that you watch to see if things that you do, don’t do what you thought they were designed to….

World Bee Day, May 20

BySustainMe

 It’s World Bee Day, May 20th.  There are lots of people worried about bees, and rightly so. To mix a metaphor, bees are the canaries in the coal mine. When bee colonies get wiped out (like colony collapse), it indicates that things are not right in the environment.&nbsp (When your canary dies in the coal mine, the methane levels are high enough to cut off oxygen, and to explode with any spark.) Pollinators like bees…