Sustainability at “the Costco”

BySustainMe

Costco wholesale club continues to impress. While many other retailers are struggling to stay alive and relevant, Costco keeps chugging along at a 7% sales growth and an impressive 36 Price/Earnings ratio (32 PE based on foretasted earnings), a PE ratio reserved for rapid growing tech companies not the single digit PE where most retailers find themselves. Investors like this safe, rather counter-cyclical, recession-resistant steady growth company(NASDAQ: COST). Note the huge 4.7 PEG rate (multiple…

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Those Sneaky Climate Alarmists

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A video came cycling around to me that provided gleeful evidence that the Climate Alarmists use sneaky methods to distort the information and make everyone shake in their boots because the world will end in less than 12 years. This guy, Tony Heller (aka Steven Goddard), even went so far as to create a tool to find the best point in any trend graph for best (mis)representing data. As with many such reports, I would…

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Renewable energy of Wind and Solar no longer needs subsidies

BySustainMe

Nice Bloomberg article here. Renewable of Wind and Solar are now cheaper than coal, oil, gas, nuclear. No big need for subsidies to make them competitive. But, there’s also no need, quite the contrary given the externality costs, for subsidizing fossil fuels! Nice article with great graphics show the fall in price for wind and solar.

That soda will kill ya!

BySustainMe

Sodas will kill you, it seems. Sugar, hfcs, or artificial sweerners, all will shorten your life.! This massive study in Europe followed almost a half million people for an average of 16 years, analyzing death rates. Drinking two or more sodas was correlated to many types of fatal illnesses. Other studies have shown links to cancers and other ails. Doctors recommend water instead. Meanwhile, drinking a glass of beer or wine increases your life and…

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What history suggests about +3 to +4 degrees in sea level rise!

BySustainMe

Study of ancient caves in Europe show how high sea levels should rise when temps go up 3 or 4 degree C. You can figure about 20 to 60 feet (7 to 20 meters). A study published in Nature looks at what water levels might look like in a +3 world. The article is summed up in Phys.org…. Scientists discover evidence for past high-level sea rise. Of course, you can always model the global warming…

Sustainable Supply Chains: 75 including Ryder

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Here are 75 supply chain companies as compiled by Inbound Logistics that have significant commitment to efficiency and sustainability in their companies and in the supply chain. Shipping companies include major shipping companies: packaging (FedEx, DHL, UPS), cargo and trucking companies. Ryder Logistics has been honored with this distinction for 11 consecutive years. See here in business wire. Wow. Some of the Ryder efficiencies include EV and Fuel cell solutions for (client) trucks.  But a critical…