Perpetual Innovation

Author: SustainMe

  • Hain up about 20% on great earnings?

    Hain Celestial (HAIN) was way up today on great earnings… That’s right, the high end and heathy food company. Shouldn’t they be getting crushed on the high prices from the great drought of 2012?

    Healthy eating is “not a fad, not a trend”, according to CEO Simon. Consumption of the category is up 14%, vs about 1% on the main stream food categories.

    Of course the super fast growth of Whole Foods doesn’t hurt, but HAIN is growing like mad in Walmart, Costco,and … wait for it … Amazon!
    Organic chips, Sleepy Time tea and a book, why not?

    97% are GMO free.

  • Happiness Happens Month… Diversity… Innovation..

    Happiness Happens Month
    This month is Happiness Happens Month.  http://sohp.com/society-celebrations/happiness-happens-month/

    Sponsored by the Secret Society of Happy People. www.SOHP.com

    The idea is that everybody complains about stuff, but we should have a day (Aug 8) and a month (August) where people don’t complain. Nobody talks about being sick or discriminated against or …

    Well, you get the picture.

    BUT, don’t tell anybody, it’s a secret.

    Oh, and another secret, It’s rumored that this society has partnered with the National Cannabis Day (April 20) folks, which could be a key ingredient in their perpetual happiness for an entire month each year.:-)

    Maybe they’ll expand it to the entire year! HHY.

    Shhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Don’t tell anyone.

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    If every cause has a day, and some causes even have a month and some special causes even have a year, then when are we going to have more than and EarthDay and a Water Day?
    Embrace diversity.

  • AP IMPACT: CO2 emissions in US drop to 20-year low – Yahoo! News

    AP IMPACT: CO2 emissions in US drop to 20-year low – Yahoo! News:

    CO2 from the US is down. WOW!. See the full EIA report on CO2 Emissions.

    The last time we had that was in 2009, we all assumed that was mainly because of the economic slowdown. But apparently, even then, part of it was because of the switching to NatGas.

    “[T]he U.S. Energy Information Agency, a part of the Energy Department, said this month that energy related U.S. CO2 emissions for the first four months of this year fell to about 1992 levels. Energy emissions make up about 98 percent of the total.“

     So the big reasons for the CO2 emissions reduction is primarily because of the switch to NatGas from coal in energy generation! … The slowing of economic growth down to 1.8% is another reason. 

     What’s amazing about this is that the switch to natgas is primarily driven by market forces. The power industry has been wining endlessly about the big food of the EPA on the juggler veins of the power industry… and of course the US economy. Yet, the move happened way ahead of schedule. 

     Low prices of nat gas make it, well, irresponsible, not to switch to clean gas away from dirty coal.

    Health benefits (fewer deaths and injuries in mining). Massive improvement in air and water quality. No coal ash to deal with.

     This would all be a good thing, if it weren’t for the massive increase in coal consumption from China and India. Where, exactly, is the benefit of us cutting back on coal when we simply ship it to China and they burn it. And they don’t worry about scrubbing it as much as we.

    China now burns half the coal in the world, and rising quickly.

     Sorry for looking good news in the eye and sounding skeptical. We sometimes simply need a little good news here and there and just to enjoy it.

     Ahhhh, NatGas, A cleaner addiction to a unsustainable problem.

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  • NASA GISS: Research Links Extreme Summer Heat Events to Global Warming. (It’s perception, Toto)

    NASA GISS: Research News: Research Links Extreme Summer Heat Events to Global Warming:

    Op Ed: We must stop rolling the dice on Global Warming.  (1 page)
    Full Paper/Presentation: Perception of climate change. (5.8 mb, PDF)

    James Hansen (& Soto & Ruedy, 2012) from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Exploration just completed a big study on world temperature change. This research uses simple, straight forward stats, and our friendly bell-shaped curve from elementary statistics. (It doesn’t use the complicated weather modeling with the spaghetti lines that almost no one really understands.)

    This is the same Hansen who first really started warning us that the climate has changed in the 1980s…
    “Toto, I’ve a feeling we‘re not in Kansas any more.”

    The graphics are powerful. Watch the the bell-shaped curve of temperatures move distinctly and precipitously to the right, compared to a “normal” 10-year period 30 years ago. And because of more extreme weather, the bell curve has flattened out.

    If you are a denier of global warming, you will be very sad about this report.
    If you haven’t made up your mind about global warming, you shocked by this revelation. And very sad about this report.
    If you’ve been a siren about global warming, this will make you want to cry. But it will also provide some of the most powerful materials ever, to go sound the alarm.

    Now your next conversation with God, or a mere mortal, for that matter, might go like this.
    “I’m sorry Sir, the patient is getting sick, and running a fever… and the fever is rising…  Yes, there’s about 7.1 billion people who are inadvertently, but consistently, poisoning the patient.. No, I’m sorry they don’t seem to want to stop doing what they’re doing… Why not? … Well, its a mater of perception!”

    Before reading this report consider this. Hansen et al. include the scorcher of a year in 2011 (think Texas and Oklahoma drought), but do not include the record-setting 2012 mega-scorcher.

    Related Links:

    + NASA What on Earth blog: The New Climate Dice


    Reference
    Hansen, J., Mki. Sato, and R. Ruedy, 2012a: Perception of climate change. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., doi:10.1073/pnas.1205276109. Early draft posted as “Public perception of climate change and the new climate dice”, arXiv.org:1204.1286.

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  • Advocacy: Sustainability a 3 part harmony series

    Advocacy: Sustainability:

    Check out this 3 part series on Sustainability.

    Part 1 talks about “What if they are right?”

    Part 2 addresses “How we liver our lives?”

    Part 3 takes on “A plan for the interim period?”

    Basically, what are we gonna do right here, right now.

    These are pretty long articles so sit back with a good late’ and let it rip.

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