All, World water day slipped by without a splash! http://www.unwater.org/worldwaterday/ Check the blog here on the topic: World Water Day 2014 blog post. Most people don’t realize the Nexus of water and energy. Most people don’t realize the Nexus of water and energy and plastics. Most people don’t realize the Nexus of water and energy and paper. Most people don’t realize the Nexus of water and energy and trash. Most people don’t realize the Nexus of water…
While you are are staying up late, thinking about saving time and saving money… Give a look at the past blog post here on EE and DST and California’s discussion about Daylight Savings Time. This is the heart of sustainability: things that we can do right here, right now, to move toward more sustainability. Some of them might be only small changes, like adjusting the clock to start earlier in the day, when sun gets up…
Chris McKnett: The investment logic for sustainability | Talk Video | TED: Chris McKnett gives a wonderful talk on investing and the idea that all investors should start looking at ESG (economic, social and governance). The economic is obvious, profits. Social is the impact to people in general, and governance is corporate social responsibility (CSR). Generally the research shows that there is no downside to being socially (and environmentally) sustainable. But in the long term,…
Here’s and interesting little video — sales pitch really — related to growing your own food. Of course you need to buy the book to really get started. I really don’t like the high-level hyperbole, but the underlying concepts are probably okay. Crisis Education, however, implies how dooms-day and shrill it sounds. I like the idea of concentrated farming, urban farming, and in-side (making your house greener) grow. Kinda makes you wander if they aren’t…
The Energy Roadmap – The Edison of our Age: Stan Ovshinsky and the Future of Energy [Video Interview Part 1]: Ovshinsky is compared to Edison as a prolific inventor… He hold patents on NiMH batteries. His solar cells power the MIR space station. Good question on Cobasys and the restrictions on next-gen batteries by the patents held within the company.!:-) The batteries that have become so critical in the next generation of batteries, electric cars,…
The Energy Roadmap – The Edison of our Age: Stan Ovshinsky and the Future of Energy [Video Interview Part 1]: Ovshinsky is compared to Edison as a prolific inventor… He hold patents on NiMH batteries. His solar cells power the MIR space station. Good question on Cobasys and the restrictions on next-gen batteries by the patents held within the company.!:-) The batteries that have become so critical in the next generation of batteries, electric cars,…
