On occasion Five Friday Facts becomes something else. Today we present Five Friday Quotations for your contemplation. “Nothing in nature is exhausted in it’s first use. When a thing has served an end to the uttermost, it is wholly new for an ulterior service.” Ralph Waldo Emerson as quoted in Natural Capitalism p.17 “Technology has [...]
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Five Friday Quotations
May 21st, 2010 
Eric Wilson 
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Tags: Natural Capitalism, Quotations, Systems Thinking 
No Comments »Five Friday Water Facts
May 14th, 2010 Justin Manger This week’s facts are brought to you by an ad in Wired magazine for the Singapore Sessions, a “multi-platform, multi-disciplinary approach that seeks to find the most insightful solutions to the most pressing business challenges facing the world today.” In the last century, the world population quadrupled while the amount of freshwater consumed increased by 900%. [...]
Posted in Conservation, Five Friday Facts, Justin Manger Tags: Water, Water Conservation 3 Comments »Five Friday Facts – Gulf of Mexico Oil Edition
May 7th, 2010 Eric Wilson The following facts deal with the oil and gas exploration and drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. The information comes via The New York Times. 1.7 – The number of barrels of oil, in millions produced each day. 30 – The approximate percentage of total domestic oil production coming from the gulf. 90 – The [...]
Five Friday Facts: New York City’s Trash
April 30th, 2010 Justin Manger In 2001, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani closed the city’s last remaining landfill. Every pound of nonrecycled municipally collected trash is taken out of the city — about 15 percent of it to a waste-to-energy plant in Newark, but most of it to destinations in western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio, Virginia and South Carolina. In such places, New [...]
Five Friday Facts; Condensed News Edition
April 23rd, 2010 Justin Manger From the recently renamed Green blog at the New York Times: A European Union report concludes that biofuels produce up to four times the carbon dioxide emissions that regular gasoline and diesel do. A plastic garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean is now twice the size of the continental United States and growing fast, researchers say. Soccer mom [...]
Posted in Five Friday Facts, Justin Manger, Renewable Energy Tags: Bio-fuels, Carbon Dioxide, Diesel No Comments »Four Friday Facts – Prepping for Earth Day
April 9th, 2010 Justin Manger Earth Day is fast approaching (April 22nd). This week’s facts come from the National Wildlife Foundation. Click on the previous link to take the short quiz yourself to test your knowledge. If you don’t mind being told the answers ahead of time, keep reading. What follows below are the four questions and their answers. 1. How [...]
Posted in Five Friday Facts, Green Economy, Justin Manger, Sustainability Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Earth Day, Energy Conservation No Comments »Five “Good” Friday Facts
April 2nd, 2010 Eric Wilson Earlier this week we posted a piece about the future of biofuels. From that same source comes the following facts about oil consumption. Although a bit dated, this data still maintains a certain level of relevance. In 2003, transportation worldwide burned up almost 500 billion gallons of crude 192 billion gallons of diesel 307 billion [...]
Posted in China, Eric Wilson, Five Friday Facts, Japan, Transportation Tags: Bio-fuels, Diesel, Oil Consumption No Comments »Five Friday Facts
March 26th, 2010 Eric Wilson This week’s Five Friday Facts comes from Waste Farmers who were recently featured on 2nd Green Revolution. In 2005 the U.S. sent 25 million tons of food waste to landfills. The Greenhouse Gas impact of composting this waste is the equivalent of removing 7.8 million passenger cars from the road. Every year the average American [...]
