World Water Day 2023 – Accelerating Change

Originally published at SustainZine March 23 2023. World Water Day, Accelerating Change. World Water Day 2023: A Call to Action (https://www.worldwaterday.org/). Be like the humming bird, be the change you want to see in the world. Approximately 750m people worldwide do not have ready access to clean water. Double that for people without clean septic/sanitation. The health and wellness of these 2b people can be improved dramatically with clean water and safe septic. World Water…

World Water Day 2023 – Accelerating Change

World Water Day 2023 – Accelerating Change

 [With AI contribution from Bard.] World Water Day 2023: A Call to Action (https://www.worldwaterday.org/). Act like the humming bird, be the change you want to see in the world. Approximately 750m people worldwide do not have ready access to clean water. Double that for people without clean septic/sanitation. The health and wellness of these 2b people can be improved dramatically with clean water and safe septic. World Water Day is observed on March 22 each…

Oil & Gas Spills in North America Since 2010
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Oil & Gas Spills in North America Since 2010

A question I sometimes ask of people who think that fossil fuels are here forever more and that electrification of everything will never happen…  Has there ever been an oil spill in Yellowstone National Park? If so, how many? The answer I get surprisingly often is “none”. It is, after all, a National Park, right?  ArcGIS does a map overlay with the data of your choice. In this case the data is documented oil and…

Oil & Gas Spills in North America Since 2010

Oil & Gas Spills in North America Since 2010

This was posted over in SustainZine originally, but it does pertain to Innovation. The costs of the old systems of fossil fuels are far greater than the price we all pay at the pump. Plus they are crazy subsidized (one estimate is 1% of GDP directly and about 6% indirectly). But here’s the article. *** SustainZine *** A question I sometimes ask of people who think that fossil fuels are here forever more and that…

Smile no more. Amazon.
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Smile no more. Amazon.

For years credit cards, Amazon, eBay and others have had “affinity” programs where a charity could be designated to receive money associated with normal sales activities. In the case of Amazon, Amazon Smile program, 0.5% of qualifying sales goes to your favorite charity. “You shop. Amazon Gives.” The program has been very successful growing since inception in 2013 to more than a million charities and about $400m donated over the decade.

Scenario Planning within Nonprofits
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Scenario Planning within Nonprofits

Scenario Planning for Nonprofits should be more than worst, best and most-likely case. But no mater what you call the scenario planning tool, it is very helpful during major uncertainty.