The first Five Friday Facts of the month centered on the economic impact of environmental regulations on the economy. If not for President Obama’s announcement earlier this month that the administration has withdrawn support for tighter regulations on smog and air pollution at the risk of harming economic growth, this would not be an issue. [...]
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Environmental Regulations, Public Health, and the Economy
September 22nd, 2011 
Eric Wilson 
Posted in Business, Economics, Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Op-Ed, President Obama 
Tags: Chemicals, Economy, Pollution, Quotations, Regenerative Economy 
No Comments »AASHE Monday Afternoon Sessions Recap
October 13th, 2010 Eric Wilson The AASHE (Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education) continued Monday afternoon with several presenters covering an array of topics in both operations and curriculum. Here are the notes from two of the afternoon’s events. The 12:30 session was in front of a packed audience at the Colorado Convention Center. (For a recap [...]
Posted in Conferences, Education, Eric Wilson, Sustainability Tags: AASHE, Curriculum, Denver, Quotations, United Nations No Comments »President LBJ Quote on Wilderness
September 9th, 2010 Justin Manger Well said: “If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them something more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.” –President Lyndon B. Johnson, on the signing [...]
Posted in Conservation, Justin Manger, Policy, Sustainability Tags: Quotations, Washington DC No Comments »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 »Notable Quotes
April 11th, 2010 Justin Manger From time to time we like to throw up some notable “green-related” quotes. Here are a few more. There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew. – Marshall McLuhan, 1964 Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, For strip-mined mountain’s majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, [...]
The Prize
March 18th, 2010 Justin Manger In 1991 Daniel Yergin published what is widely recognized as the definitive history of the oil industry. Starting with “Colonel” Drake’s 1859 drilling of the first ever oil well in Titusville, Pennsylvania, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power is a 700 plus page tome that chronicles the rise and fall of [...]
Posted in Business, Clean Technology, Green Economy, Justin Manger Tags: Green Technology, Oil Consumption, Quotations No Comments »Friday Quote
March 12th, 2010 Justin Manger “My friends in the business world keep telling me that Washington can help on two fronts: by investing in green research, offering tax incentives and passing cap-and-trade legislation; and by setting and enforcing tough standards to ensure that companies with cheap, dirty standards don’t have a competitive advantage over those businesses protecting the environment. As [...]
Posted in 2nd Green, Business, Justin Manger, Policy, Sustainability Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Jared Diamond, Quotations No Comments »Notable Quotations
January 15th, 2010 Justin Manger Instead of the usual Five Friday Facts, here are five thought provoking quotations. Feel free to comment and add to the collection. “The significant problems we face cannot be solved with the same level of thinking we used to create them.” – Albert Einstein “Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and [...]
