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Wind n Sun are now cheaper/better than Coal, NatGas, etc

BySustainMe

By now you probably knew it was happening, but you probably didn’t realize how much and how fast. If you figure subsidies, Solar and Wind are a slam-dunk powerful option. Wind prices have been dropping fast and solar has been dripping like lead… Solar prices have dropped about 86% over the last 8 years. Check out the latest 2018 report by Lazard. Note that they also analyze renewables with storage (batteries). The Solar incentives make the…

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The ESOP of Branding: Bumped.com

ByBizMan

This is one of the coolest things ever in branding. BUMPED. And I’ll bet you haven’t bumped into it yet. I assume that the name comes from the idea of going to one of your posts or items-for-sale and typing in “bump”. It may be a couple days without activity, and now it has activity today. This is similar to the idea of going to your web site and changing something on it — any…

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More prisoners in US than any other country: Criminal (In)Justice Scenarios

ByDel Phi

Here are Scenarios and sources of the injustice in the Criminal Justice system in the USA. The US has the most people incarcerated of any country in the world… Even though we only have 4.3% of the world’s population, we have more inmates — 2.2 million — than China (1.5m) and India (0.3m), combined (36.4% of world population)! We have 23% of China’s population but 40% more incarcerated. We have almost 1% of our population…

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Criminal Injustice: Is abnormal non-sustainable?

BySustainMe

We at SustainZine look for things that are abnormal, things that are so inefficient and clearly irresponsible that they should be categorized as non-sustainable. We think the Criminal Justice system in the USA qualifies and non-sustainable. Question, what is a “normal” rate of incarceration for you citizens? And if you are a way out-of-control outlier to the other developed countries, does this represent non-sustainability. That is, if you don’t put anyone in jail, are you…

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Backup to a Better Backup Generator Solution

BySustainMe

You may already have a backup generator for the house. In fact, you may have the backup generator with you just about everywhere you go. Plus, it might be totally quiet, for hours. Yep, we are talking about your hybrid gas-electric vehicle. Hybrids have been selling like crazy on the farms because they can easily be used to generate 120-volt electricity to run hand tools and generally provide backup power. Most newer vehicles offer a…

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Where Intellectual Property (IP) and Sustainability Meet (GMO and Monsanto)

ByBizMan

For decades Monsanto has enjoyed Intellectual Property (IP) protection on both sides of the plant-agro business. The dominant herbicide in the world, RoundUP, and the Genetically Engineered (GE or GMO) crops that shrug off the active ingredient – glyphosate – in RoundUp. Patented Product (herbicide) that relies on Patented Products (GE crops) Monsanto started using their glyphosate product in the 1970’s, a product that would become widely marketed under the branded and trademarked name of…