The unintended consequences of helping out where help may not be needed: your fav garden birds.
Earth Day, April 22. See the OVERVIEW. This is Part 2 of 2 of the discussions with GenAI ChatBots. GenAI on Earth Day 2024: Part 2 Q: What is the consensus on how soon we have to phase off of fossil fuels and move to carbon neutrality? Q: What are the key factors that agreements…
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…
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? …
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…
Rising levels of acids in seas may endanger marine life, says study | Environment | The Guardian Ouch! This has been a growing concern. The rapid increases in the CO2 levels — blasting past 400ppm as we speak — that has several scary consequences. First, there’s the greenhouse gas (GHG) thing and the rising temperatures…
Why sustainability requires redesigning industrial systems — not just replacing energy sources The defining sustainability challenge of the 21st century is not merely an energy transition — it is the molecular transition to a regenerative economy. Fossil fuels have shaped not only how societies generate power, but how industrial systems produce materials, infrastructure, and essential…
