NEW GLOBAL WATER PRIZE ANNOUNCES WINNERS

Winning Innovations Show Promise for Vastly Reducing Water Consumption

SAN FRANCISCO, March 8, 2010 – A web application that alerts wine grape farmers when their vines are thirsty. Rainwater storage that’s easy to install and fits in tight spaces. Technology that tells water utility customers their usage rate and rewards them for cutting back. These are the winning business ideas for the inaugural Imagine H2O Prize and they’re ready to save the world hundreds of billions of gallons of water. Continue Reading »

No, it’s not the new black, or the new green or even the blue gold. Water should, if it is not already, be your new project. The hot days will be coming before we realize it and many states will be – once again – asking their constituents to reduce their water consumption. Well, can you think of 5 critical issues the world is facing because of our lack of access to drinkable water? Here are mine: Continue Reading »

A November 2009 report by international researchers who are also part of “Global Carbon Project” and published by Nature Geoscience shows an increase in CO2 emissions of 2.0% from 2007, 29% from 2000 and 41% above emissions in 1990. Another report by the International Energy Agency confirmed that China is by far the world largest CO2 emitter ahead of the USA. However, the USA still leads the CO2 emissions per capita ahead of Australia and Canada. These reports have highlighted several frightening trends: Continue Reading »

One of my favorite journalists, Johann Hari, takes mainstream environmental groups to task for selling out their principles, often in exchange for money from the worst polluters.

Read it online at TheNation.com

COP15 (MOP5 – AWG KP10) / AWG LCA8 = <+2 degrees

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AWG LCA8 + AWG KP10 – (COP15 x MOP5) = 350 ppm CO2

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Greening our lifestyle and activities can be a daunting enterprise, especially when we start with a strong will to go green, little time and a vague idea about what is the problem, what’s causing it and how to fix it. So the idea of providing consumers and businesses some indicators in the form of third-party ratings, labels and certifications about one product and/or organization environmental performance seemed at first a good one. That was until the stakes became to high. Continue Reading »

# Jeffrey Hollender announced Seventh Generation new growth plans: become a $1 Billion dollars corporation in the next 5 years. The Vermont based company hired Chuck Maniscalco, former Pepsi-Co champion and entered into a partnership with CleanWell Company to market (natural) disinfectant-cleaners.

Why does it matter? Continue Reading »