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Tracking water on the move « The Cost of Energy: ‘via Blog this’ Check out this blog about water. Video about GRACE and tracking water from space. They analyze land-water depletion with increased rise in ocean levels. Note the discussion by Famiglietti about the areas of drought: above and below ground water levels… Since the change in water is the primary difference that impacts (land)mass, the GRACE satellites can measure the changes. And it seems…

Bloomberg News Adds Its Two Cents to Sustainability Debate: ““If you don’t have a sustainability plan, you don’t have a business plan” is the note on which the media company” If that’s the case, and I believe it is, there are very few companies out there who really have a Business Plan. The very first order of business is doing an energy/water/carbon audit. I should think that ever few smaller companies/organization have done that. Way…

The iPod’s Inventor Strikes Out On His Own, And Invents…A Thermostat?! | Co. Design: Oh, you are gonna like this. Programmable thermostats should, theoretically, save you a ton on your utilities. But you will love this. Only about 6% of programmable thermostates are actually — you guessed it — are actually programmed.:-( So maybe, just possibly, the answer is better training for the users. Nope. That will never do. How about something more intuitive and…

Most Chief Sustainability Officers Close to the Top, Report Finds · Environmental Management & Energy News · Environmental Leader With 35% reporting directly to the CEO and another 55% are no more than 2 degrees removed (C-Level) from the CEO. This is a small sample, but interesting how high in the organizations sustainability lands. Note that only DuPont (in 2004) had a CSO prior to 2007. From the http://www.environmentalleader.com