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 [...]
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Five Friday Facts: Industrial Waste
January 27th, 2012 
Eric Wilson 
Posted in Eric Wilson, Recylcing 
Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Chemicals, EPA, Landfill, Natural Capitalism, New York City, RMI, Waste, Wastewater 
No Comments »Five Friday Facts – RMI’s Reinventing Fire
July 30th, 2010 Eric Wilson The following five Friday facts come via Rocky Mountain Institute’s Reinventing Fire pamphlet. Despite new technologies, codes, and design strategies, the U.S. building stock is not much more energy efficient than it was twenty-five years ago – it uses 70 percent of the U.S. electricity, half of which is made from coal. Transportation uses 70 [...]
Posted in Energy Efficiency, Eric Wilson, Five Friday Facts Tags: Biomass, Coal, Electricity Generation, Nuclear, RMI 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 [...]
