World Water Day 2021 (in the rear-view mirror): Valuing Water. World Water Day (March 22, 2021) is past (www.WorldWaterDay.org)… By now you should have taken the Water Day Quiz at SustainZine. It’s been about 10 years since I developed such a quiz. I had to work to improve and update the original quiz… It is still tricky to get good answers to some of these water-critical issues. Often the water usage is available to the…
World Water Day 2021 (March 22) Quiz Name/Team: ____________ (See SustainZine blog post related to this quiz and World Water Day.) 1. Approximately what percentage of the adult human body is water (H2O)? a. 10-15% b. 20-30% c. 40-50% d. 55-65% 2. All of the following are primary water-related causes of death world-wide except: a. Diarrheab. Malariac. Dehydration d. Driving into bodies of water while texting 3. A gallon of DeLand city tap water costs…
It’s World Water Day, March 22, 2021 (www.WorldWaterDay.org). Time to test your water knowledge with a World Water Day Quiz. Some days we wish it would rain. Some days, we wish it would stop. But every day, not just March 22, we should stop and appreciate the importance of water. How important it is to out our being, to our lives, to our living and to our existence. Here is my Water Quiz for…
IBM is again the leader in patents issued. That’s 28 years and running. IBM had 9,130 patents issued in 2020, compared to the next highest, Samsung with 6,416. There’s about 15 electronic and manufacturing companies with 2,000 to 3,000 patents issued. Note that all the top 10 are electronics and/or chip makers. Forbes has a nice article by Roberts about the top 20 patent recipients of 2020. Apple, the largest company by market cap ($2.1T),…
What’s up with the Stock Market(s)? Feb 8, 2021 the various stock market indexes all hit all time highs. Wow. First off, Trump was very business friendly – some would argue too business friendly (at the expense of the environment and labor. But the market has chugged happily upward based on the likelihood of a Biden win and the certainty of it after the election. Markets don’t like uncertainty, and Trump has been a wildcard…
The SustainZine has been blogging (although rather sporadically) for 11 years. Wow!. One of the first blogs was related to an article (and a SAM presentation) by Hall, Tayler, Zapalski and Hall (2009). It focused on sustainability in Higher ED, specifically on how the facilities of universities were doing sustainability initiatives but there were few actual classes on Sustainability. The classroom, i.e., the future of sustainability was far behind. Later in 2010 Hall (2010) published…
