Highlights – UPS Corporate Responsibility: Just got a REALLY COOL UPS letter today. The envelope does a folding Origami-type thing and you can reuse it!. So very cool. Here’s a pix of the label which says: reduce, reuse it and THEN recycle!… Decision Green(sm) is a service mark of UPS. 100% recycled with 80% post consumer. I love it! ‘via Blog this’
This day is sponsored by the National Writing Project…http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/3729 Here’s a pretty cool article on the idea with some great links at the bottom.http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/happy-digital-learning-day via ST… Thanks.
The U.S. Economy is Unsustainable – YouTube: David Walker…. Former President of the Government Accounting Office. This was in 2008, before we did all the stimulus spending to bump us out of the recession. … ONLY This quarter, the US debt exceeded the US economy. US Economy is now (back) up to $15+T; The US Debt is now up above that!:-( Check out the US Debt Clock. It’s hard to keep up with since the…
A Year for the Record Books | Planet3.0: ‘via Blog this’ This to us from MacDonald from GreenDistrict… It is one of several places to start rounding up the status of sustainability (gain &) loss for 2011 and start to plan for 2012. As we start to organize the (un)balanced scorecard for an unsustainable year of horrific sustainability numbers… ?What would be a good summary for the year, even if the summary has a lot…
Tracking water on the move « The Cost of Energy: ‘via Blog this’ Check out this blog about water. Video about GRACE and tracking water from space. They analyze land-water depletion with increased rise in ocean levels. Note the discussion by Famiglietti about the areas of drought: above and below ground water levels… Since the change in water is the primary difference that impacts (land)mass, the GRACE satellites can measure the changes. And it seems…
Bloomberg News Adds Its Two Cents to Sustainability Debate: ““If you don’t have a sustainability plan, you don’t have a business plan” is the note on which the media company” If that’s the case, and I believe it is, there are very few companies out there who really have a Business Plan. The very first order of business is doing an energy/water/carbon audit. I should think that ever few smaller companies/organization have done that. Way…
