In Tuesday’s Gainesville Sun, Mark Stowe and Dave Pokorney imagine what the Gainesville community would be like if it was completely outfitted with ultra high speed fiber internet. That dream could become a reality if Gainesville wins Google’s “fiber to the premises” experimental broadband initiative. If selected, Gainesville could be [...]
Innovation steps forward to lead us out of our climate crisis:
Two of these blocks can power an American home, while one will suffice for a European home. A stack of 64 can power a small business. What is this magical box and where can you get one?
It’s the Bloom Box, essentially a power plant [...]
As we lift our heads out of the bunkers we’ve hidden in during 2009, we can see that the landscape has been cleared and that we’re already moving toward a sustainable future. We citizens of America have lived through an horrific year… really, an horrific decade. Yet this past year has brought us hope as we have never known in my adult life – and that’s 30 years. This past year has brought unprecedented changes that have been hard to ride, yet I believe they are pulling us toward the world we’ve dreamed of. While 2009 has been a bitch of a year, it’s been a boon to our future. Three cheers to 2010! [Read more by clicking the headline above...]
“Encouragingly, entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial companies are emerging with best practices in pricing, branding and marketing to realize this competitive opportunity. Remember January 1, 2010 as one of those key dates in history where something as seemingly minor as the EPA beginning a process for measuring and reporting GHG accelerates The Green Economic Revolution.”
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Bill Roth is [...]
“Ladies and gentlemen, there is no time to waste. America has made our choice. We have charted our course. We have made our commitments. We will do what we say. Now I believe it’s the time for the nations and peoples of the world to come together behind a common purpose.
We are ready to get [...]
It is frustrating and infuriating that the world can’t come together to face these problems; that instead of progress, profit-making polluters continue to influence legislation with lobbyists to deny problems and delay solutions. Thanks, Ed, for sending this straightforward assesment of the state put world concerns:
“… EU fisheries ministers agreed a deal that pleased our [...]
Thanks to Osha davidson for this terrific report from The Phoenix Sun:
“And if we take serious action to combat climate change, we won’t just be passing on a cleaner, healthier planet to our children. We’ll also be laying a foundation for decades of sustainable global prosperity.
Because the development of the clean energy and energy efficiency [...]
Thanks to Nicole Sands for passing this our way:
Copenhagen (Greenpeace.com) — “…the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) released a proposal for a two-protocol, legally binding outcome for the Copenhagen climate summit.
…the AOSIS proposal would essentially amend the Kyoto Protocol to extend it until 2017 (it currently is set to expire in 2012) and set [...]
Thanks to Barb Drake in Peru for sharing this compelling news piece that she helped to produce for MSNBC…
The issue of ‘how to change consumer behavior’ comes up constantly, and I always fall back on the idea that we really don’t need to get Machiavellian about it – that the information itself will do the job, which turns out to be a common assumption. But an example noted in the following articles demonstrates that just giving better options can make a big difference. Another interesting example demonstrates that talking with people is more effective than informing them through written words. But the fact remains that even if all who understand the relationship between global warming and CO2 made the necessary changes, we’d still only be dealing with about a third of the population. So the bottom line is that no matter how much one tries to change individual behavior, the real changes will come about when business objectives and products address sustainability. Fortunately, businesses are moving in that direction. This takes the consumer out of the picture somewhat (though without the few who do demand better products and systems, the businesses wouldn’t be making the changes), and the goals will be achieved without having to get them to control their own behavior. Annie Jia reports from ClimateWire:
