The unintended consequences of helping out where help may not be needed: your fav garden birds.
I got my new best buddy Bard (AI from Google) to help with two blogs: World Water Day 2023: Accelerating Change in March and Earth Day 2023: Invest in our Planet in April (this blog post). The world’s population is growing rapidly — blasting through the 8 billion humans on the planet last year —…
Sustainable Universities falls into to two schools (note the pun). 1) Those that have greener campuses in terms of reduced usage of resources and renewable resources. 2) Those that teach sustainability programs academically. Of course, doing both is entirely possible… and even highly synergistic. Here’s a few sources of Green campus and green(er) universities: Campus Ecology: http://www.nwf.org/campus-ecology.aspx…
What does GenAI have to say about the scientific-based solutions promoted by Project Drawdown? ProjectDrawdown.org (Another take on Earth Day using GAI.) We employed our fav GenAIs to chat about Project Drawdown. This is the overview with the prompts. Please feel free to run GenAI chat with your own queries. Q: Project Drawdown looks at…
These visuals of the planet changes over the last 30 or 40 years are impressive, to say the least. http://nbcnews.to/1uxF6ZM Here are some cool time lapse photography using satellite imagery over the last few decades. Check out the Amazon! Check out the glaciers! Ouch! Double ouch!
Energy | Homeland Security News Wire: Clean Coal Might Really Be a Possibility!!! WOW! It may take me years to take back all the trash talk I have had about Coal. Dirty, Dirtier, Dirtiest Coal… But no such think as Clean. Dr. Fan at Ohio State has pioneered the technology called Coal-Direct Chemical Looping (CDCL). This lab…
NextEra Energy Resources commissions its 10,000th megawatt of wind energy – 12/18/12: NextEra (FPL by an older name) now produces enough Wind Power to run a city the size of Chicago, or it will. Rather cool is to check out the company’s Sustainability Report. http://www.nexteraenergy.com/news/index.shtml This will give you an indication of what power generation companies…
