SustUcation: Education eZine on Innovation, Sustainability and Competitive Advantages: To Cheat or not to Cheat… The China Syndrome.: So there’s a BIG to do about cheating in china. WOW, what’s the chance. Here’s a fun video… China uncensored. http://www.yo…
If you listened only to the loudest voices after the US 3Q25 GDP release, you’d think two completely different economies were being described. On one side, there was genuine enthusiasm—bordering on celebration—over “nearly 5% GDP growth,” cited confidently and repeatedly, with little attention paid to qualifiers like nominal, inflation, or composition. On the other side,…
Modern economies are often evaluated by growth, productivity, and short-term profitability. Yet these metrics can obscure a more fundamental question: Is the system solvent when all costs are counted? The distinction between a linear economy and a circular economy is not primarily an environmental debate—it is an accounting one. Linear systems extract resources, convert them…
We walk on it, pave over it, and only notice it when it clogs our tires or messes up our boots. We call it dirt, sweep it off our floors, and complain when it sticks to our shoes. But this same “dirt” quietly grows 95% of our food, filters our water, and stores more carbon…
Spill spews tons of coal ash into North Carolina’s Dan River – CNN.com: Oh what a pain it is! … A Pain in the Ash, so to speak. One of the dirty little secrets of Coal is the ash!. The massive 2008 spill in TVA should have been a bit of a wakeup call. But…
The staff economist at the state Public Service Commission had been staring at the same spreadsheet for forty minutes. It was a Thursday in late February, the heat in the building was set too low for the season, and her office still smelled faintly of the coffee she had spilled on Monday. The spreadsheet was…
— Article 1 of 2: The COP30 Essentials & The Ambition Gap — The 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30), currently underway in the Brazilian Amazon, represents a critical juncture in the global climate fight. Hosted by a nation intrinsically linked to the planet’s most vital carbon sink, the summit has been framed as the…
