The following article is by Alison Hopcroft,a sustainability and carbon management consultant who works for Fluid Market Strategies in Portland, Oregon. Alison is leading a free webinar on carbon management this Tuesday, March 2nd at 12pm EST. Despite the fact that hope for meaningful climate legislation has all but completely disappeared for this session of [...]
Archive for February, 2010
Guest Author Post: Standardization Needed for Expanding Carbon Industry
February 28th, 2010 
Justin Manger SunChips 100% Compostable Chip Bag Makes Early Debut
February 27th, 2010 Justin Manger As reported in a post last summer, Frito-Lay is set to unveil a 100% compostable bag for their Sunchips product on April 22nd for the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. It appears, however, that the bag is already in use (picture at right) and being sold at stores, specifically the Super Target at 4301 East [...]
Posted in Business, Conservation, Green Products, Recylcing, Sustainability 
Tags: Composting, Earth Day, Food, Green Technology 
1 Comment »The Footprint Chronicles: Where Has Your Jacket Been?
February 25th, 2010 Eric Wilson Earlier this month on Public Radio International’s daily program The World, reporter Murray Carpenter highlighted “some of the new technologies that help consumers trace the global journey of their purchases and calculate their environmental cost.” If companies are going to argue their products are truly green, there needs to be independent verification. Greenwashing (making specious [...]
Bloom Energy: Big Dreams. Big Backers. Big Success?
February 24th, 2010 Justin Manger Bloom Energy had the official public unveiling of their solid oxide fuel cell technology today in Silicon Valley. After years of flying under the radar as a stealth start-up, the company made it’s debut on the world stage with a bang. California governor Arnold Swarzenegger was on hand as was former Secretary of State Colin [...]
The Nature of Science and Scientific Data
February 23rd, 2010 Eric Wilson As a follow up to our most recent Five Friday Facts about the IPCC’s (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) Summary for Policy Makers (PDF), National Public Radio’s Science Friday program had a wonderful discussion of science and how it is portrayed in the media. The panel, which included a Pulitzer Prize winner, a professor of [...]
Bloom Energy Boxes: Replacing the Grid with a Clean Energy Power Station for Every House?
February 22nd, 2010 Justin Manger Green energy start-ups often promise revolutionary technology in going after the Holy Grail of clean, cheap, efficient, and abundant energy only to disappoint in the end. What makes Bloom Energy and the claims that they make any different? Well, perhaps nothing. But perhaps they will back up their talk when a mysterious countdown on their [...]
Ecodiscoveries Aims for Effective Green Household Cleaning Products
February 21st, 2010 Justin Manger The household cleaning product industry has given consumers a way to clean just about every type of stain, spill, mold, dirt, and blemish that there is. Many of them work as advertised, resulting in clean shower doors, mold free tile, spotless ovens and sparkling living spaces. The drawback to all this is that many of [...]
Posted in Business, Clean Technology, Green Products, Justin Manger, Recylcing Tags: Emory, Regenerative Economy 2 Comments »Reaping the Benefits of Composting
February 20th, 2010 Eric Wilson As a follow up to the vermicompost (worm composting) post the other day, today’s post delves into outdoor composting. While similar in their goals, vermicompost and outdoor compost bins have radically different requirements. As suggested by the name, outdoor compost bins require access to the outdoors so that naturally occurring microorganisms can populate the compost [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Local Energy/Food, Recylcing Tags: Composting, Food, Waste, Zero Waste No Comments »Five Friday Facts – IPCC
February 19th, 2010 Eric Wilson For a slightly different take on the Five Friday Facts comes the “virtually certain” impacts of climate change. This data comes from the IPCC’s (Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change) Summary for Policy Makers (PDF). Phenomenon and direction of trend Likelihood of future trends based on projections for 21st century using SRES scenarios Agriculture, forestry, and [...]
