Daylight Saving Time – Saving Time, Saving Energy: Remember to move your clocks forward an hour today. Your laptops and cell phones should give you the right time. But, while you are at it, PONDER THIS…. This is actually a pretty good play on energy efficiency and smart(er) energy policy. The idea is that spending more wake time when the sun shines will result less energy usage. The greenest possible killowatt is the KW saved….
Highlights – UPS Corporate Responsibility: Just got a REALLY COOL UPS letter today. The envelope does a folding Origami-type thing and you can reuse it!. So very cool. Here’s a pix of the label which says: reduce, reuse it and THEN recycle!… Decision Green(sm) is a service mark of UPS. 100% recycled with 80% post consumer. I love it! ‘via Blog this’
Sixteen Concerned Scientists: No Need to Panic About Global Warming – WSJ.com: Interesting group who signed off on this. Certainly there are smarter things to do and less-smart things to do related to becoming sustainable. In some cases (many cases) the best way to sustainability is to bring a developing economy up out of poverty: you’re not very concerned about the environment if/when you are struggling to stay alive. It should be interesting to see…
The U.S. Economy is Unsustainable – YouTube: David Walker…. Former President of the Government Accounting Office. This was in 2008, before we did all the stimulus spending to bump us out of the recession. … ONLY This quarter, the US debt exceeded the US economy. US Economy is now (back) up to $15+T; The US Debt is now up above that!:-( Check out the US Debt Clock. It’s hard to keep up with since the…
Why Are Americans So Ill-Informed about Climate Change?: Scientific American: ‘via Blog this’ I came upon this as I was building a WikiBook on Sustainability and Climate change. Wikipedia has a great coverage of Climate Change and it includes this great article. It is interesting how we Americans are being dragged, kicking and screaming, into a low(er) carbon world. Much of the rest of the developed world has been working on lower emissions for more…
Bonian Golmohammadi: Why We Need a Global Environmental Organization: This article seems to do a good job of organizing the current research. It builds a good case for global action. The global organization is needed, yes. But that is part of the problem. The dysfunction of individual governments is amplified many, many times when it comes to global organizations such as the UN. I think that a big part of the denier ideology is the…
