New program at USF examines water bottle usage (2.44 min video) This is a cool/excellent program at USF related to eliminating the water bottles use on campus. Note the refill stations being used throughout campus. We all need to get way from the bottled water. 13B plastic bottles per year now. That’s a 10 fold increase from 10 years ago.!:-( Environmental literate.
Interesting article. Three BIG reasons why we in the USoA companies are not being sustainable with our Over-Innovation ways. I think the short-term focus is a Big one. Focus on the immediate sell of the immediate product is probably the underlying problem more than any other. Article: over-innovation-makes-us-firms-suck-at-sustainability
There has been a painfully slow move to NatGas in the US, even though we appear to have centuries worth of it using new fracturing and horizontal drilling techniques. The one holdup, kinda, is being blamed on the possible environmental impact from gas drilling. (As if it could be worse than oil with its BP Gulf and Exxon Yellowstone spills in the last two years.) So the EPA is conducting a few big studies. With…
There’s a really cool oil and cleaning product company that produces bio-oils and cleaning products from plant and animal byproducts. Animal fats seem to be a big part of the oil. It has a patent pending technology using nanotechnology that they describe as: “superior performing ULTIMATE BIODEGRADABLE* motor oil made with American grown base oils and the power of nanotechnology to reduce wear, lower friction and provide more horsepower while being safe for the environment.”…
The Japanese reactors are far worse than they are telling us. It might take 100 years to clean it up, if/when they get the reactors under control. CNN news on this issue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXwI0HM9BYM (~5min) Decontamination processing is ongoing: http://www.globalsecuritynewswire.org/gsn/nw_20110624_7822.php In the meanwhile nuclear waste going to Yucca Mountain is not an option. So we continue to have no energy policy related to US nuclear power (and the nuclear waste). “For nearly thirty years, NRC waste-storage requirements have remained…
Earth Day 2011 is Coming Next Week!!! Earth Day is on Friday 22nd this year (that’s Good Friday). BUT, this newsletter is actually devoted to water… World Water Day World Water Day flooded past us Tuesday March 22 without most of us hearing a drop about it.!:-( The 41st World Water Day (March 22, 2011): UN World Water Day. A Prayer for Japan As we give thanks for water and all it does to sustain our lives and…
