Dads are funny. Sometimes they are comical too, but almost always funny. My dad has been spouting two sayings for as long as I can remember, his 3 rules – “No excuses. No lies. And I’m here to learn.” - and “Prior planning prevents piss poor performance.” It’s the latter that I want to touch [...]
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Five Friday Facts: The Rise of Bottled Water
November 25th, 2011 
Eric Wilson The following set of facts come from Elizabeth Royte’s Bottlemania. This is the third set of facts that have been used for the Five Friday Facts. Click here for the first one. For the second set, click here. According to restaurant consultant Clark Wolf, the restaurant industry revenue from bottled water sales is between $200 [...]
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No Comments »Five Friday Facts: The Bottled Water Industry
November 11th, 2011 Eric Wilson The following set of facts come from Elizabeth Royte’s Bottlemania. This is the second set of facts that have been used for the Five Friday Facts. Click here for the previous one. Between 1990 and 1997, U.S. sales of bottled water shot from $115 million to $4 billion. They grew another 170% between 1997 and [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Five Friday Facts, Recylcing Tags: Elizabeth Royte, EPA, Plastic, Water No Comments »Is China Headed in the Right Direction?
November 10th, 2011 Chris DeArmond China may be one of the first countries that pops into your head when you think of clean technology, but its government has only just begun to recognize the environmental damage caused by two decades of unhinged economic growth. In a 2011 study, the World Bank found that 20 of the world’s 30 most polluted [...]
Posted in China, Featured Posts, Renewable Energy Tags: Chris DeArmond, Coal, Environment, Oil Consumption, Pollution, Solar Energy, Water, Wind Power No Comments »Five Friday Facts: Bottlemania Water Facts
October 21st, 2011 Eric Wilson While in between books for school, I picked up a copy of Elizabeth Royte’s Bottlemania. I had previously read (and reviewed) her book Garbage Land. Through two chapters, I have thoroughly enjoyed Royte’s writing and introduction to bottled water. This first set of Five Friday Facts from the book provides an overview of water issues [...]
Posted in China, Eric Wilson, Five Friday Facts Tags: Elizabeth Royte, EPA, Population Growth, Water No Comments »Genetically Modified Organisms in Food
October 17th, 2011 Megan Stilley October is GMO awareness month. GMOs are genetically modified foods and are now in most processed foods. According to Grist.org, “80 percent of packaged foods in this country contain genetically engineered ingredients.” The main crops that are GMO in the U.S. are soy, corn, cotton and canola. These are all common items we consume and [...]
Five Friday Facts: Sewer Water, Drought, and San Antonio
October 7th, 2011 Justin Manger Even in the middle of a historic drought, San Antonio, Texas has managed to keep the San Antonio River flowing through the River Walk area of downtown. What’s their secret? Treated sewage water. Here are a few facts from an NPR article on the river. To keep the river flowing, the city used to have to pump [...]
Posted in Conservation, Five Friday Facts, Justin Manger, Policy, Recylcing, Sustainability Tags: Environment, Water, Water Conservation No Comments »Pollution in Production of Solar Panels an Issue at JinkoSolar Plant
September 19th, 2011 Eric Wilson Reports out of China indicate protestors are upset over pollution from a local solar panel manufacturer. The producer in question, JinkoSolar, has been accused of polluting a river as a result of runoff from the plant carrying waste laced with harmful chemicals. The New York Times reports that “residents claimed runoff from solid waste laced [...]
Posted in China, Clean Technology, Eric Wilson, News, Renewable Energy, Sustainability Tags: Chemicals, Natural Gas, Nuclear, Pollution, Solar Energy, Water 1 Comment »
