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The new IPCC report on Climate Change. It is a little bit of a long read…
The report spends some time on probabilities, including what “business as usual” looks. BAU gets ugly, and uglier, and ugliest.
Starting early, not later, seems to make sense…!!!
Happy Earth Day ! GenAI and I had a talk today about Earth Day… Over at our sister site on sustainability: SustainZine.com … The Earth Day 2024 posts are divided into: Overview, Part 1, and Part 2 . There’s a simple quiz on this Earth Day (Plastics). See what my fav GenAI chatbots had to say about getting to zero carbon emissions. What if GenAI were a world leader? Hmmm… The scenario planning that Earth Day…
Climate-change deniers are in retreat – The Washington Post: It will be nice to move past the non-debate about is there global warming, and move off into the real debate. We are all living unsustainable lives with non-sustainable business models. What is our plan to move toward sustainability. Singly and collectively? The argument that it doesn’t do any good for us to do something if China and India continue consuming is sad and ironic. For…
Taking a fresh look at solar energy’s benefits | Highlands Today: Local article to Central Florida. It is good to see some movement on solar. Great. We all need to be more sustainable. Glad to see Coronado Solar getting out there and making it happen. Couple areas that aren’t precise. Probably lost something in the translation. Payback on solar hot water is usually 2 to 4 years. Really good ROI for pools (unless you like…
It’s been a while since the Perpetual Sustainability(tm) wikibook has been updated. The idea behind the book was that people could link through on each sustainability-related topic and find up-to-date information on the topic as only Wikipedia can provide — the genius of crowdsourcing. We let ChatGPT 4.0 work on an update (and the graphic). What do you think? YOU Q: Please generate an outline improved from the one attached that includes hyperlinks to each…
— 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 “Nature COP” and carries an immense symbolic weight for the future of multilateral climate governance. As nations gather to finalize…
Sustainability efforts take a big hit with the Trump election to president. Some forces are bigger than he, however. Congress didn’t act on most things sustainable-ish, so much of the Obama efforts have been by executive order and by regulations. The EPA on coal, for example. The right way to regulate emissions in general — and fossil fuels specifically — is by a carbon tax (or cap n trade). With a carbon tax, then all…
