The unintended consequences of helping out where help may not be needed: your fav garden birds.
Even though campuses are getting greener, the classes are not. A big study of campuses, the Campus Report Card, by the NWF (with others) showed how much various schools are doing in terms of sustainability. They are doing a lot on campus but not much teaching of the concepts in the classroom. (Also see some recent research on Generation E.) The Campus Report Card is actually two similar studies, on in 2001 and one in…
It’s EarhHOUR tonight. (Sat March 27th at 8:30pm, local time). What are you doing with this time in the dark??? If it is publishable in public, let us know. What if you’re driving at 8:30???? You still have to turn your lights out, Right??? …!:-) Visit http://www.earthhour.org/ Check out the cool pix from years past. Expect cool pics from this year as we start down under and work the clock to you!…
Patent Trolls Threaten Green Innovation · Environmental Management & Energy News · Environmental Leader: There is a lot of discussion about “patent trolls” and the impact they have on various industries. Here is the argument about the impact they have on the innovation in “green” technology. This is really the case for all new technology and all new industries, but the argument is about the major impact the trolls have on smaller organizations in the…
Gleaning feeds the needy | Highlands Today: “Gleaning feeds the needy” Earth Day… Basic four things to do. Right now. Number 1. Health and wellness. People can’t be healthy, and they certainly can’t be productive, if they don’t have the basics of health and living conditions. Just drinkable water and basic sanitation is a critical issue. This combined with the lack of basic nutrition results in major health and wellness issues for approximately 2 billion of…
Interesting article. Three BIG reasons why we in the USoA companies are not being sustainable with our Over-Innovation ways. I think the short-term focus is a Big one. Focus on the immediate sell of the immediate product is probably the underlying problem more than any other. Article: over-innovation-makes-us-firms-suck-at-sustainability
GreenBiz 2015 | GreenBiz Conferences, Feb 17-19, 2015: This is a very cool Sustainability/GreenBiz forum lineup. In Phoenix, in February. Listen to some of the big companies out there including Unilever, J&J, Target, Levi’s, adidas,… I like some of the discussion on metrics and ROI from sustainability… Seems like such a good place to start. Should be fun. Also, if you are associated with Gov or Edu or ?Org? you might be eligible for a…
