The unintended consequences of helping out where help may not be needed: your fav garden birds.
Dr Elmer Hall talks
about the doing good and making money by a business installing Solar. He
discusses the financial analysis for a business and why it probably is such a
great investment. The investment for businesses has huge tax savings. Plus, the
money to pay for power to operate the business is already committed if the
building is used. This is Part 2: See part 1 related to Residential as well.
#SustainZine #Solar #RenewableEnergy #SBPLan #Profitability #CrazyProfitable
The Volusia County Water Summit – Stetson Today:
The water summit discussed here, turned out to be a rather big event. Really good information & analysis. The right people thinking about the right issues.
It seems that everyone agreed to do something about improving water management and water quality in the county. Although this is a non-binding agreement among the players, it is a really big step forward.
Once everyone realizes those few areas where most of the efforts should be focused, it really helps get a concerted effort from all of the players, private, public and individuals.
When we have these wicked algae blooms, that demonstrates a massive overshoot of what our waterways can handle. Such blooms cause problems all the way out to the reefs, accelerating the reef kill-off that has already been accelerating from record warm temperatures and increase acidification.
The quality of life as we know it, is being eroded by the quality of our water and waterways.
Sustainability becomes a business law:
Two things resurfaced over the last couple days. One is very local to Florida related to Sustainability is the Business Law. It looks at the focus of sustainability from the business view, or from the environmental view; which is the right view. And the answer, of course, is “Yes”. Aiming for a win, win in the business vs. environment tug of war. The old approach of win-lose turns out to be a lose-lose in the long run.
But a separate study by the Rodale Institute, with a 30-year long (and ongoing) study of farming showed organic farming to be a hands-down winner over the mass production methods used in the USA. Actual link to the study is here: http://rodaleinstitute.org/our-work/farming-systems-trial/
BP to Pay $18.7 Billion to Settle Deepwater Horizon Spill Claims http://www.wsj.com/articles/bp-agrees-to-pay-18-7-billion-to-settle-deepwater-horizon-oil-spill-claims-1435842739
Put a huge amount of the BP litigation behind it.
This would be the same as all the profits that the company has made since 2012. However the payment schedule is 1.1 million dollars per year.
Yes, BP was pretty irresponsible back then. But it still makes one wonder what if it were not such a big company that can afford to make all of the payments and restitution? If this has been done by a small company, or a non-multinational company, then the whole cost of the oil spill would have gone to governments and individuals.
So, feel free to hate BP, but it could have been a lot worse on the pain and recovery side.