The unintended consequences of helping out where help may not be needed: your fav garden birds.
The Costco Connection – July 2017 – Page 34-35: Bees in Peril: Working together to find a solution What to do when the canary (bees) stops singing (buzzing)? This is a great (short) overview of where we stand on bee front, written by Stephanie Ponder. (You gotta wonder if that’s a pseudonym!:0) This should worry people everywhere for soooo many reasons. The economic impact of a massive, or total loss of bees, is obvious. But bees…
Reforestastion in order to bring back something similar to native forest, and to draw down carbon dioxide levers, is actually rather tricky. You can’t plant a monosystem of, say, pine tries, especially if they are not native. One cool approach is to take acorns from an anchient native oak tree as one of 27+ natives in a reforestation areas. Check out this detailed article on BBC, 1,000-year-old oaks used to create ‘super forest’, by Hellen…
Business/Commercial Solar can be crazy profitable. [UPDATE: 30% Investment Tax Credit on renewables in the IRA Act 2022. See our Blog post here. This makes all the financial discussions below much more profitable. Also, higher inflation and higher power inflation.] Consistently three-fourths or more of people surveyed believe that renewable energy – especially solar – is good and that we should do more solar on the buildings where the sun shines consistently. But is doing…
Here is an article in ARS Technica about an article in Nature Geoscience (2019) that talks about microplastics in the French The Pyrenees Mountains, a pristine place, except for, well, plastic! The researchers made extremely controlled efforts to assure that they were not contaminating the samples gathered. But the plastics are coming in on the wind, and coming down (mainly, it seems) in perpetration. If microplastics are everywhere, then our impacts on the planet are…
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…
Sustainability becomes a business law: Two things resurfaced over the last couple days. One is very local to Florida related to Sustainability is the Business Law. It looks at the focus of sustainability from the business view, or from the environmental view; which is the right view. And the answer, of course, is “Yes”. Aiming for a win, win in the business vs. environment tug of war. The old approach of win-lose turns out to…
