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  • Sustainability Business Success Hinges on CEO Mindset Change · Environmental Management & Energy News · Environmental Leader

    Sustainability Business Success Hinges on CEO Mindset Change · Environmental Management & Energy News · Environmental Leader:

    “Some 67 percent of CEOs in the study believed business is not doing enough to address global sustainability challenges. . .  While 84 percent believed business should lead the way in addressing those challenges”


    Sustainable Leaders… Seems like something that Hall and Knab were talking about in their 2012 article/chapter.

    For businesses and business leaders (CEOs) not to take an active roll in sustainability would be, well, irresponsible (Hall & Knab, 2012).

    Reference

    Hall, E., & Knab, E.F. (2012, July). Social irresponsibility provides opportunity for the win-win-win of Sustainable Leadership. In C. A. Lentz (Ed.), The refractive thinker: Vol. 7. Social responsibility (pp. 197-220). Las Vegas, NV: The Refractive Thinker® Press.
    (Available from www.RefractiveThinker.com, ISBN: 978-0-9840054-2-0) 

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  • Holding back the oceans… The Cost of Energy… Compounding and getting worse.

    Holding back the ocean (via The Cost of Energy)

    The inevitability of sea level rise (emphasis added): Small numbers can imply big things. Global sea level rose by a little less than 0.2 metres during the 20th century – mainly in response to the 0.8 °C of warming humans have caused through greenhouse…

  • How much should a hip replacement cost? CBS News

    How much should a hip replacement cost? Study raises more questions than answers – CBS News:

    Paying cash for a procedure can get wild in terms of the prices. (They did this for a similar ailment and got similar results.)

    Offering to pay cash, and pay up front will result in serious discounts, say 70%.

    But this is still a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad world of medicine.

    What’s missing is transparency. If you can’t figure out how much something is going to cost, how can you plan for it.

    Oh, and here is a case in point on the Hip-to-be-squared problem. If hip is a pre-exiting condition, then you have to pay out-of-pocket. But, if you let your insurance laps, then you can not be denied… BUT in next year, 2014, more of Obamacare will kick in and then it’s no worries (maybe?).

    This whole area of healthcare is fuzzy and morphing, so it really is not sane to try to make rational decisions.

    Maybe the best idea is to go an medical tourism vacation. Trip it up to Canada, down to Costa Rica or drink it up in Spain. It seems that the pain before and after surgery, just might, kinda put a damper on the whole vacation thing though. But the $50-100,000 would be a nice incentive to enjoy the trip.

    It’s going to be hard to bring healthcare costs under control when the mess in pricing and the lack of transparency is out of control.

    It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World of medicine.

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  • Pres Obama steps out to wave down the run-a-way climate train!

    It was a little bit of a surprise that Obama stepped up as forcefully about taking on climate change as he did.

    Check out this post by Peterman at Huffington:
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/keith-peterman/state-of-the-union_b_2674448.html

    Many environmentalists are going to complain that this is not enough, but it really is better to start late than even much much later.

    As Peterman shows, it looks like we are aiming for 6+ degrees C, not the 2+C that many people were hoping to achieve. At that rate, sea-level rise would be measured in yards, not feet.

    Not much on details. Federal government can take some action for government buildings and transportation,

    Reduce energy consumption by 50% in 20 years should be, surprisingly, far easier than most people think. 25-30% could be achieved in buildings within a couple years, with a payback of months… And a gigantic Return on investment.

    Easier said then done, though.

    But to continue doing “business as usual” would be, well, irresponsible.