A few years back I started reading Natural Capitalism. I wrote a post about the first chapter and vowed to come back to the book “soon.” Geologically speaking, it’s been the blink of an eye. In human terms, a wee bit longer. The book isn’t inordinately long, but after coming back to it after many months, I [...]
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Natural Capitalism: Chapter 2 – Reinventing the Wheels
May 22nd, 2012 
Eric Wilson I Don’t Understand Parking Lots
May 13th, 2012 Eric Wilson In an op-ed a few months back I alluded to the coming diatribe against parking lots. As a form of land use, parking lots make no sense to me. Conversely, most parking garages are eye-sores. I understand that underground parking is expensive and laborious to construct. There are some wonderful advances in “parking lot technology,” [...]
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Tags: Cars, Natural Capitalism, Urban Planning 
1 Comment »Five Friday Facts: Industrial Waste
January 27th, 2012 Eric Wilson As a follow up to yesterday’s post detailing the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) most recent Toxics report, comes today’s Five Friday Facts. The EPA compared many of the 2010 figures to 2000. The facts below come from Natural Capitalism by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and Hunter Lovins (the latter two are co-founders of the Rocky [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Recylcing Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Chemicals, EPA, Landfill, Natural Capitalism, New York City, RMI, Waste, Wastewater No Comments »John Stewart’s Clean Energy History Lesson
June 21st, 2010 Eric Wilson As mentioned in a recent post on Paul Hawken’s Natural Capitalism, the second green revolution has been brewing for quite sometime. For a comedic look at the history of clean energy in this country, John Stewart had a funny take on the past eight presidents’ stances on clean energy. In a nod to last week’s [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, President Obama, Renewable Energy Tags: Clean Energy, Humor, Natural Capitalism, Oil Consumption No Comments »First Thoughts on Natural Capitalism
June 14th, 2010 Eric Wilson Usually I skip the preface and acknowledgments in a book. With the decade old Natural Capitalism from Paul Hawken (author of The Ecology of Commerce), Amory Lovins, and Hunter Lovins, co-founders of Rocky Mountain Institute in Colorado, I felt it was going to provide valuable background and history. In reading these sections I was struck [...]
Five Friday Quotations
May 21st, 2010 Eric Wilson 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 [...]
Posted in Behavior, Eric Wilson, Five Friday Facts, Justin Manger Tags: Natural Capitalism, Quotations, Systems Thinking No Comments »
