You can drive a Mack Truck through senior leadership double talk
How can an executive truly care about climate initiatives or pay equality when their incentives are about cutting costs? Continue Reading
Sustainability
Is Kemper County, Mississippi going to be the future of the climate change battle?
You may have heard about the Kemper County (MS) power plant — here’s the Wiki for it, for good measure — as it could be a major step forward in the climate change battle. Here’s the basic situation: the plant converts coal into… Continue Reading
The first Earth Day was the result of Gaylord Nelson, Pete McCloskey, and Denis Hayes
“This planet is threatened with destruction — and, we who live in it, with death.” This were some of the first words associated with Earth Day when it started — way back in 1970 — and despite being depressing, the… Continue Reading
If you have $340,000 and can move to Sri Lanka by 2016, you could basically live in a 46-story-tall forest
Milroy Perera was previously the architect of note on the Kandalama Hotel in Sri Lanka (video profile above), which is carved into a rock face and faces out towards an ancient jungle. (“You’re not a guest; you’re part of nature.”) Now he’s… Continue Reading
Brief thought exercise: if you knew conclusively what happened when you died, would you treat the world better right now?
This isn’t a full-fledged post by any means; ’tis just a thought exercise. If you believe that things like overpopulation and peak oil and food supply and over-dependence on fossil fuels and the future of the oceans are all concerns we could be addressing more now, then… Continue Reading
This Bhutan-electric car partnership is both odd and interesting
Here’s Bhutan: It’s near Nepal, Bangladesh, Burma, China and India. It’s extremely insular, and tourism only even began in 1974. To this day, you need to enter with some type of group; just booking a flight to Bhutan isn’t something one… Continue Reading