Follow Adam on Twitter. Of bees and business… http://bit.ly/tidkMS A picture is worth US,338,500.00 http://bit.ly/s77Sks Morocco pushing hard for hydro-wind. http://bit.ly/sPScZY Alaskan Airlines using waste biofuel on 75 flights. http://bit.ly/tZF2Xa Repair or replace an appliance? Infographic. http://bit.ly/u7N1O1 Microsoft advertises their vision for 2020. http://bit.ly/vyZPmr Beautiful — video essay - a murmuration of starlings. http://bit.ly/uNbqfV The [...]
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Adam’s Tweets: November 1-15, 2011
Posted December 25th, 2011 by Admin. Comment (0).
2010 Had Largest CO2 Emissions Ever
Posted December 16th, 2011 by Admin. Comment (0).
See the NYT Article: Emissions rose 5.9 percent in 2010, according to an analysis released Sunday by the Global Carbon Project, an international collaboration of scientists tracking the numbers. Scientists with the group said the increase, a half-billion extra tons of carbon pumped into the air, was almost certainly the largest absolute jump in any [...]
Adam’s Tweets: November 16-30, 2011
Posted December 7th, 2011 by Admin. Comment (0).
Follow Adam on Twitter. 30 year batteries. http://cnet.co/scLAA3 The raw milk revolution. http://bit.ly/w1G0x2 Scotland prepping for climate adaptation. http://bit.ly/roSD74 Tech-equipped insects as first responders to toxic sites. http://bit.ly/sOGqdc Wangari Maathai’s legacy. http://bit.ly/ubzZe5 To boldly go where no Octopus has gone before. http://bit.ly/rNNAd1 Court rules in favor of Yellowstone grizzlies. http://bit.ly/sm4R71 Did an Illinois Water Utility [...]
Certificate IV in Business Sustainability Assessment
Posted November 28th, 2011 by Admin. Comment (0).
This program is designed to meet the needs of an emerging career option, the course has been developed specifically to give participants the skills necessary to undertake sustainability assessments of small to medium businesses. Additionally it would benefit employees of local government, Non-Government (NGOs), larger businesses and other organisations who may have/wish to have a [...]
Soil Carbon Scheme Could Offset Australia’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Posted November 19th, 2011 by Admin. Comment (0).
‘A Soil Carbon Offset Scheme has the potential to sequester all of the 537 million tonnes of CO2 that Australia emits and generate billion in Carbon Credit payments to the Australian economy.’ Andre Leu, Organic Federation of Australia Chair stated. ‘Long term scientific farming comparison trials show that organic systems sequestered an average of 7.4 [...]
Earth USA 2011
Posted November 10th, 2011 by Admin. Comment (0).
The Sixth International Conference on Earthen Building and Architecture, Earth USA 2011, met in Albuquerque, NM at the National Hispanic Cultural Center September 30 through October 2, 2011. One hundred twenty participants came from fourteen countries and presented papers on various aspects of earthen construction. At the conclusion of the Conference participants worked collectively to [...]
Toxic Plastic Nurdles — What? Why?
Posted November 1st, 2011 by Admin. Comment (0).
So is a down-stream, firm-by-fiim approach the best we can do? (Read the article). With insufficient numbers of regulators and firms willfully doing the wrong thing, what’s a society to do? Why not change the incentives? Make any pollution damage and clean up the financial responsibility of the the entire local industry if it cannot [...]
City-Building Challenge: 1 every 5 days for 40 years
Posted October 23rd, 2011 by Admin. Comment (0).
To accommodate the next 2 billion travelers on spaceship earth between 2010 and 2050, we will need to build 1 city of 1 million people every 5 days for the next 40 years. Read the Scientific American article. Think we might need to tune up our industrial, design, production, and urban livabiltiy capacities, not to [...]
Mixed Feelings on Carbon Farming (tag:blog)
Posted October 14th, 2011 by Admin. Comment (0).
Posted: Apr 11, 2011 -Sustainability Matters Topics: Sustainability > Waste Advance towards making biodegradable plastics from waste chicken feathers In a scientific advance literally plucked from the waste heap, scientists have described a key step towards using the billions of waste chicken feathers produced each year to make one of the more important kinds of [...]
Measuring the Green Economy
Posted October 5th, 2011 by Admin. Comment (0).
Preliminary Search Google Search on Measuring the Green Economy, most docs are 2010 & 2011: Dept. of Comm – New Report: http://www.greenbiz.com/research/report/2010/05/04/measuring-green-economy This exec Sustainability Clips