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2013-05-22 00:01:01 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Let's go up the escalator again

Here's yet another story that clears up what has become the most annoying and corrosive objection to climate science today, the notion that the world is not warming after all, or is warming far more slowly than previously thought.

http://www.businessspectator.com.au/article/2013/5/21/science-environment/long-term-warming-short-term-variability-why-climate-change?utm_source=exact

It goes hand in hand with this escalator image, which shows the pattern of steady increases in warming but with periods of relatively flat surface temperatures. We're in one of those flat lines now, but only in surface temperatures, since oceans are warming relentlessly.

So again, next time someone throws that one at you, know how to respond.

For more, check out Joe Romm's climate blog in +Think... more »

2013-05-21 16:01:26 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

The corporate leadership needed for a green future

A must watch -- if, that is, you want to peek into the kind of leaders we need to turn the corporate world green.

The Gary Hamel clip by +McKinsey & Company is not explicitly aimed at sustainability, but implicitly it is. The cultural change he is calling for can best happen in a company tuned in to green and CSR. It's a DNA thing.

http://www.mckinsey.com/Insights/Organization/Leaders_everywhere_A_conversation_with_Gary_Hamel?cid=other-eml-alt-mip-mck-oth-1305

2013-05-17 04:20:20 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 11 +1s)

For better climate persuasion

Lots of folks have shared this. I got it through +martin shervington and +Pamela Wang. Persuasion is an art. We use it for anything and everything we want to communicate, or sell. I see it as essential to change people's behavior when it comes to climate and resources. So what is your persuasion thing?

2013-05-17 04:12:06 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Couchsurfing. Me encanta el espíritu. Son momentos para compartir y reflexionar. Pa'encima.

2013-05-07 22:44:18 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Obama's eco-integrity problem

Reporters Chait and Roberts are willing to cut the President some slack on his environmental record, and we must all agree that it has been far better than either his predecessor was or his Republican opponents would have been. But my problem with him cuts differently.

Obama is fully aware of the risks and how close we are to catastrophe. Nearly every public statement on the issue since the 2008 campaign has been spot on. He can eloquently articulate what's at stake. So I measure his progress not on specific items like cap and trade, Keystone and auto emissions, but on what he has done in relation to the degree and depth of his understanding.

And on that count, when the oceans rise and the food runs dry, he will go down in history as the president who knew exactly what had to be done and failed to act.

2013-04-30 00:10:51 (28 comments, 2 reshares, 19 +1s)

All this does is confirm what we've known

Many of us have been assailing President Obama from the beginning, when we went into shock over his timid stance at Copenhagen in 2009, his first year in office. Since then, not only has he gotten worse at every subsequent UN climate conference, but as this story says, his domestic actions have left an abyss to be desired. Still, he did lead everyone to believe, in his latest State of the Union, that this time it would be different.

Oh well. Just another sign that the world will not move at anywhere near the speed needed to save the planet, which in turn means that we won't, and that the best we can hope for is to extend the life of the planet.

2013-04-27 20:26:45 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 8 +1s)

You know this rumor going around...

... about global warming slowing down? Read this latest research and be ready next time someone brings it up.

2013-04-22 18:27:37 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 7 +1s)

50 top experts look at climate and conclude...

#greenhope   #globalwarming   #sustainability   #climate   #climatechange  

... that we're not even close to doing what we must, globally and nationally, to avert civilization ending climate change -- a 2 degree Celsius temp rise -- well before century's end.

We're not even close. There is, they say, a 90% chance we won't act at the scale and urgency needed, echoing the spate of reports issued as recently as last year by the likes of the World Bank, the International Energy Agency, UNEP and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

The share below is to a Time article on this report by the Council on Foreign Relations. Here's the link to the section on climate change: http://www.cfr.org/thinktank/iigg/reportcard/climate_change.html#report-card

I don't know about you, but I think it ishigh ... more »

2013-04-17 05:10:46 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)

Take it to the big screen

Participate! If you're not a filmmaker, find someone who is and have him/her participate. This can have quite an impact. +Carlos Diaz, imagine doing this at Rochester...

2013-04-16 18:25:57 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

The future... Grantham style

#climate   #climatechange   #sustainability   #globalwarming  

Aside from how cool this guy seems, and how cool it is that we get to know him in this post -- in my case thanks to +C.J. Shane-- the article brings up some cool issues.

First, we HAVE to find more Jeremy Granthams out there in the big-money universe. I don't care if they want to remain anonymous or choose to speak out and get arrested at +350.org protests. The important thing is for them to FUND cutting-edge eco stuff. +Richard Branson, bless his soul, is doing it with the Carbon War Room, one of my favorite organizations, which focuses on gigaton solutions. I am absolutely convinced that for every Grantham and Branson, there must be, I don't know, maybe ten? who feel the passion and know the science and would love to jump in were it not for the intense peerpres... more »

2013-04-16 01:48:03 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

Face the "worst of the world", and serve, and love it

#greenhope   #climate   #climatechange   #globalwarming   #sustainability

On the surface, this magical post, which I saw when shared by +Jigar Shah, is largely about discovering meaning and passion at work by focusing on what you deeply care about, and how employers can nurture such engagement to enhance performance.

Beneath the surface, though, in the very title of the piece, lies a more powerful message that goes to the heart of what we will all face as runaway climate change kicks into high gear towards mid-century and beyond. Here's the key segment in the second paragraph:

"The happiest people I know are dedicated to dealing with the most difficult problems. They face the seemingly worst of the world with a conviction that they can do something about it and serveoth... more »

2013-04-01 02:15:31 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Mulgan's false but beautiful hope

#climate   #climatechange   #globalwarming   #greenhope   #sustainability  

This book presentation last week by British thinker and social innovator Geoff Mulgan reminds me of the recent talk here in Puerto Rico by cradle-to-cradle originator, architect William McDonough. Here's my post on the latter, in case you missed it: https://plus.google.com/u/0/118018939924152190745/posts/Wt6LnMwPGSD

Like McDonough, Mulgan paints a fantastic picture of the future we can have. The book and the talk work, essentially, on three levels. First, the corporate and organizational. Capitalism is full of locusts and bees -- thus the book's name -- or predators bent on selfish exploitation and profit, and creators/collaborators equally bent on reshaping the system to favor enlightening innovation and solidarity. Mulgan nicely citesanthr... more »

2013-03-31 21:58:12 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Crowdsourcing at its best

Thanks to +Kathryn Alexander for bringing +OpenIDEO to our attention. You gotta check it out, especially if you have an inspiring idea or want to collaborate in opining on projects presented by others. This is exactly what we have to do more of to extend the life of the planet and transform our lives and societies in the process.

2013-03-30 20:59:09 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Let's get creative... about climate!

#climate   #climatechange   #globalwarming   #sustainability  

As many of you know, Richard Florida is out with his latest book on the rise of the creative class http://www.creativeclass.com/richard_florida/books/the_rise_of_the_creative_class_revisited

Here he is in a +Big Think talk summarizing the central thesis, which is that the large group of folks who can be categorized as creative is growing fast, both in the U.S. and around the world, and that there are huge benefits to being a part of that group. It is, as he shows, transforming the world in multiple ways.

One of those ways, which he mentions in the book but not in this brief talk, is the imperative to tackle the climate and resources crisis that is spiraling the world ever closer and irreversibly to self-destruction. As I've written in the GreenHope ... more »

2013-03-30 16:27:17 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Let's hear it for the Windy City!

Very proud of my home town. It offers lessons for every incumbent major city in the world today, not to mention the hundreds of new cities being formed in emerging markets. The impact of cities is huge. Whether we can extend the life of the planet and by how much depends more than anything else on how green we can make these urban spaces. So let's get to it.

#climate   #climatechange   #globalwarming   #sustainability   #greencities  

2013-03-30 16:06:10 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Autocatalytic, yes, but planned, too

I hope this concept of the autocatalytic city doesn't spread, or at least not the way it's spelled out in this +GreenBiz.com story. The author argues that city planning is overrated, including the kind that creates more sustainable urbanism, because city dwellers gravitate towards doing their own thing anyway and somehow manage to get by. They're autocatalytic, that is.

No!!!! Not so. Oh, sure, we all make our own choices and decisions, and all of them together create the city space. But we learned long, long ago -- in Mesopotamia, to be exact -- that planners can influence those choices tremendously. Heck, so do marketers with their advertising campaigns, and policy makers with their laws. People do not exist in a vacuum. Our choices are the result of many forces, and sustainable urban planning MUST be one of them, for if left... more »

2013-03-30 15:56:18 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Do we have a choice?

Here's a curious take on an extremely critical issue. Aside from how beautifully this +Slate article is written, it misses the whole point. Minimalism, says the author upon interviewing folks who tried and gave up on the notion, is not sustainable (defined as in lasting forever) because it becomes too hard after a while.

That is soooo limited in scope and vision, aside from the fact that the use of the word sustainable misleads people into thinking that minimalism is questionable as a solution to sustainability, when she's not referring to that definition at all.

Minimalism, like the one I and so many of us practice, is wonderful because it makes life so much simpler and richer and better!! To avoid needless complication is bliss, not to mention the huge savings, improved health (mainly from walking more and driving less) and the extra... more »

2013-03-30 15:23:23 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

The counter to one popular denier argument

Next time a denier argues that there hasn't been any appreciable warming in the last 16 years, send them this Joe Romm piece. Check out the nifty graphic showing the "escalator", or the sequence of periods of flat temperature followed by substantial spikes.

A bit more ammo.

2013-03-30 15:15:06 (3 comments, 9 reshares, 11 +1s)

On missionary leaders

Here's a fantastic story on missionary vs. mercenary leaders, with none other than famed investor John Doerr pitching the virtues of corporate virtue.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidkwilliams/2013/03/29/great-companies-are-led-by-missionaries-not-mercenaries/

Given the voluminous evidence that has amassed in the last 20 years on how values-led, missionary companies thoroughly outperform their peers, it is absolutely amazing to me how such few investors have followed Doerr's lead. They should be tripping all over each other looking for those companies in every corner of the planet. Instead, the markets are still ruled by folks looking for short-term gains and traditional value metrics. It's preposterous.

In this article, Doerr shares his investment guidelines. Chem 'em out. A group of us were threading on this very... more »

2013-03-30 14:57:10 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

2013-03-30 14:55:29 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-03-23 02:30:50 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

CSR must go deeper still

#geenhope   #climate   #climatechange   #CSR  

I gotta say I'm a bit disappointed by this +McKinsey & Company report. I mean, these guys usually hit it on the money, but they missed the mark on CSR. Or shall we say, to give them some merit, they got only part of the story right.

Authors John Browne and Robin Nuttall make the case that for results to be optimal, CSR must be integrated into strategy, not remain as mere frosting. But that's old news, mainstreamed by Michael Porter and Mark Kramer in this much referenced 2002 article in the Harvard Business Review http://hbr.org/2002/12/the-competitive-advantage-of-corporate-philanthropy/ar/1

OK, so Porter/Kramer called it philanthropy, while Browne/Nuttall prefer the broader CSR. But all four are basically referring to the same thing: a company's outreachto co... more »

2013-03-21 16:43:06 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Fantastic greenovation

+CleanTechnica keeps bringing us these amazing stories. If these PV windows are commercialized... Wow!

2013-03-21 15:53:07 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Megatrend in the making

Fantastic story from +GreenBiz.com on the looming tipping point of corporate eco-efficiency. This is one trend we need to see through, for it is indispensable in the race we're on to extend the life of the planet. And since we're ALL partaking in it, we might as well know it!!

2013-03-21 15:44:47 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

China in the news: pushing back

#greenhope   #climate   #climatechange   #globalwarming   #sustainability   #china   #pollution  

Isn't this photo amazing? The people of China (Beijing in the photo) are battling some of the worst pollution ever endured by the people of any country. The title of this excellent Climate Spectator story highlights the irony. "China's dilemma: growth vs. the environment."

http://www.businessspectator.com.au/article/2013/3/20/policy-politics/chinas-dilemma-growth-vs-environment?utm_source=exact&utm_medium=email&utm_content=240671&utm_campaign=cs_daily&modapt=

Really? If that's the choice China's new leaders think they're facing, we're ALL in for hazier days ahead, since pollution this bad is itself an enormous obstacle to growth.

Of course, an intense debate israging... more »

2013-03-19 13:01:51 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

The #Cleantech Open is expanding to Florida, the Caribbean, and Latin America; Includes Biomass, Biogas, #Biofuels, BioEnergy, and #Algae startups this year! Start spreading the news. ;)

2013-03-15 17:43:40 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

What will this "epochal global rebalancing" mean?

#climate   #climatechange   #greenhope   #globalwarming   #sustainability   #MDGs   #HDI   #UN  

Here's a tough one. How do we celebrate the glorious path revealed yesterday in this +The Guardian story -- the dramatic reduction in extreme poverty thanks to all the economic growth since 1990 -- and not blast that very same growth for putting us on a civilization-ending path beyond 2C by mid-century?

How? Just how do we reconcile these two opposites?

Presumably, that growth, the vast bulk of it in emerging markets, could have taken place sustainably -- all-renewable power, cradle-to-cradle production and consumption, natural-capital accounting, preservation of forest and ocean biodiversity, zero waste, green buildings, green cities, green transportation, simple/minimalistlifestyl... more »

2013-03-23 14:55:35 (14 comments, 8 reshares, 13 +1s)

McDonough's false but beautiful hope

#greenhope   #climate   #climatechange   #globalwarming   #sustainability   #cradletocradle   #mcdonough   #braungart  

Famed green architect and post-sustainability champion William McDonough, creator of the cradle-to-cradle method and product certification along with long-time German partner Michael Braungart, was in Puerto Rico last night. A great treat for those of us who have followed his trendsetting work for years but had never met him or seen him in person.

His message was vintage McDonough. "I hate the word sustainability," he said, surely stunning those in the full house unfamiliar with McDonough's smooth yet cutting prose. "What are we sustaining, exactly? This? A planet in self-destruction? A world in which we tell each child who is born that he's part of our populationproblem... more »

2013-03-10 23:14:18 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

"Soul introduces a different language"
More on Green Hope 5 (Human Resilience)

#climate   #climatechange   #globalwarming   #greenhope   #sustainability   #resilience   #adaptation  

Three days ago I posted this regarding the Knight Foundation's Soul of the Community study and initiative I had just run into: https://plus.google.com/u/0/118018939924152190745/posts/ghAdrDmnvkW

I've spent the much of my time since Thursday digging into it more deeply and obsessing over the climate implications, and I'm back to report that the implications are indeed vast.

As argued in the original Green Hope 5 post a couple of months ago, the concept of resilience must be broadened to include -- in fact, preferably limited to -- the human bonds that make a community, well, more resilient to the ravages of climate change.
&quo... more »

2013-03-08 14:08:25 (6 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

Fill the world's rooftops with solar

This is one of the most important steps we must take to extend the life of the planet, and according to this Climate Spectator article, the timing could not be better. http://www.climatespectator.com.au/commentary/solars-crazy-expansion?utm_source=Climate%2BSpectator%2Bdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Climate%2BSpectator%2Bdaily&utm_source=Climate+Spectator&utm_campaign=bc2692450b-CSPEC_DAILY&utm_medium=email

Even with the huge glut in panel production, manufacturers continue to crank out more, which means that the existing ones sitting around in warehouses around the world (mainly in China) are available at ridiculously low prices.

Find an installer who puts them up with no upfront payment from you the property owner (with a solar power purchase agreement), and you're good to go. If you're... more »

2013-03-23 15:02:47 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Venture capital's telling shift from mitigation to adaptation

#greenhope   #climate   #climatechange   #sustainability   #mitigation   #adaptation   #globalwarming  

Here's an interesting twist to this entire Green Hope outcome in the Business Week story below.

Turns out the world's institutional investors have grown increasingly certain that the World Bank, the International Energy Agency, PricewaterhouseCoopers, UNEP and the others have it right when they anticipate a 4C or 5C world by century's end.

So much so that they have begun to shift their equity holdings from companies focused on mitigation (preventing the rise) to adaptation (companies that help people and cities deal with the consequences and manage the damage).

The decline in mitigation investments can only be considered tragic, though, becausethe wo... more »

2013-03-10 22:08:30 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Rethinking the business-people-neighborhood connection
More on Green Hope 5 (Human Resilience)

#climate   #climatechange   #globalwarming   #sustainability   #greenhope   #resilience  

Kudos to Sustainable Cities Collective for sharing this hyper useful research, one aligned perfectly with the central thesis of Green Hope, which is that there is hope to be found in the coming 21st century collapse.

There is hope in building stronger cities, not just to build stronger businesses (the purpose of our newspaper's Green Economy blog linked below), but more importantly to develop deeper and more humane bonds among the people who live in those neighborhoods.

Because as it turns out, the more attached people become to the place where they live and spend most of their time -- the place where they stake their future and raise their children-- th... more »

2013-03-07 21:32:13 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Six feet

Here's as clear an explanation of the coming sea level rise as I've seen. The six-feet projection this century is in line with most, and it MUST provoke the deepest possible reflection, for that alone will provoke a massive collapse of civilization and the global economy.

Think about it.

#climate   #climatechange   #globalwarming   #sealevelrise   #sustainability   #greenhope  

2013-03-07 02:03:21 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

The commercial power of green

Open and shut proof: green is green!

2013-03-06 15:38:59 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

U.S. public opinion moving in the right direction

Check out the latest U.S. survey from the +George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication. It's all moving in the right direction, which is an interesting contrast from the GlobeScan survey shared in this space a couple of days ago. How to explain that?

http://climatechangecommunication.org/sites/default/files/reports/Six-Americas-September-2012.pdf

#climate   #climatechange   #globalwarming   #biodiversity   #sustainability   #greenhope  

2013-03-04 22:57:28 (10 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

How do we turn this around?

#greenhope   #climate   #climatechange   #globalwarming   #sustainability   #globescan  

This massive, multicountry survey by GlobeScan should serve as a sign of one thing and a wake up call for another. Check out the study in this +Robin Miller release: http://www.globescan.com/commentary-and-analysis/press-releases/press-releases-2013/261-environmental-concerns-at-record-lows-global-poll.html

The survey polled nearly 29,000 people in 22 counties on their degree of concern over various environmental issues. In all but one of those concerns -- climate change being the exception -- concern levels were lower than at any time since the survey began way back in 1992. After all the Inconvenient Truth and the UN global meetings and documentaries and activism and all. And even climate change has seen a sharp drop from two or three yearsago, a... more »

2013-02-28 16:12:26 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 3 +1s)

Fantastic tool from Al Gore

Here's the very latest from Gore's Climate Reality: a nifty tool to more easily counter deniers and skeptics on climate science. Check it out and spread the word.

2013-02-27 01:31:51 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Wow. This man has got to make it.

And you can help. Thanks to +Zachary Shahan for sharing this +sustainablog story on the amazing Juan Rodriguez and his Quetsol energy venture. Check it out and let's help out, because the potential he has to scale this solution well beyond Guatemala is HUGE.

It can become a big part of the solution to extend the life of the planet, given the sheer magnitude of the emerging-market growth Quetsol can help energize with green power.

For a sense of just how huge that emerging-market growth is likely to be, read this: https://plus.google.com/u/0/118018939924152190745/posts/XvfQXJU53Ae

#greenhope  

2013-02-27 00:18:45 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Share THIS

#climate   #climatechange   #globalwarming   #sustainability   #sharingeconomy   #glia   #greenhope  

The title may be a play on words, but the message is serious business. I want to first thank +Raz Godelnik for this link and for his entire +Triple Pundit sharing economy series, which you'll find referenced in it. It is fantastic stuff.

The broader point is that sharing has matured. The number of sharing start-ups has blossomed, as has the number of firmly established players. It is global. It is local. It is present and future. It is inspiring. It is part of the Green Hope we must all build and share.

So if you or anyone you know is thinking of starting a business or is looking to invest in someone else's business, share this link. Realize that there are sharing-economy folks out there willing to share their experienceso that ... more »

2013-02-27 00:27:32 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Take it to the companies near you
Via +Triple Pundit 

+Gil Friend has become a source of inspiration to a whole lot of people, who look to him for precisely the sort of visionary counsel he offers in this Noble Profit video.

The main takeaway today is that these precious lessons on corporate sustainability MUST be taken straight to the local level and not remain the purview of large multinationals, as they largely have to date. The relative lack of adoption by small and midsize companies, including most local and regional leaders, remains one of the huge gaps in sustainability.

You can help change that. Listen to Gil in this tape, access other resources -- believe me, they're all around us! -- and approach businesses in your city and neighborhood. It is yet another source of great Green Hope.

#climate   #climatechange   #globalwarming   #sus... more »

2013-02-27 00:25:51 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Charging up community action
More from Green Hope
https://plus.google.com/u/0/118018939924152190745/posts/3SZs4YC8ArT
#greenhope  

Talk about hope! This is what we're talking about. Check out this fantastic local initiative out of Australia:

http://www.climatespectator.com.au/commentary/charging-community-action?utm_source=Climate%2BSpectator%2Bdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Climate%2BSpectator%2Bdaily&utm_source=Climate+Spectator&utm_campaign=e372039dce-CSPEC_DAILY&utm_medium=email

Become inspired. Choose your own niche and take local action, right where you live. That's where it's at.

The climate game may be over in terms of the final salvation of the planet -- given the 5C path we're on -- but it is far from over in all we can still do, and will be able to do until the very end, to lift spirits... more »

2013-02-26 11:28:16 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Local scale and acceleration

Two extremely promising energy stories: the one linked below from +Grist on five near-term megatrends, and this one from +The New Yorker regarding the Solar City-Honda partnership on creative financing for individual solar projects, including business http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/20/business/honda-to-offer-customers-a-home-solar-system-option.html

At a time of runaway climate change and the 5C path we're on, the name of the game has become scaling sustainability solutions such as these with great acceleration.

Since the beauty of these particular solutions is dispersion and decentralization, it behooves each of us to take part, at the very least encouraging adoption in our local communities. Recall a Big Message we talked about a lot last in this space for most of last year: In the absence of a global climate treaty, the actionmu... more »

2013-02-27 00:26:18 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Finding hope in the middle of this
More from Green Hope:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/118018939924152190745/posts/3SZs4YC8ArT

#climate   #climatechange   #globalwarming   #sustainability   #greenhope  

In the article linked below, +McKinsey & Company returns to what is easily the most important of all its recent epic studies, the one that projects a stunning $25-$30 trillion growth in new emerging-market cities by 2025, what the firm calls middleweight or mid-size urban areas that are not household names. And there are more than 400 of them!

McKinsey calls it the "single biggest growth opportunity in the history of capitalism." Those of us in the climate movement call it, simply, suicidal, because at the moment this growth is poised to happen thoroughly unsustainably. It is raging so fast and furious, that the momentum alone willsurel... more »

2013-02-24 18:24:41 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

Where would you plant that white flag?
More from Green Hope
https://plus.google.com/u/0/118018939924152190745/posts/3SZs4YC8ArT
For Green Hope columns 2-5, visit About in this G+ page.

#climate   #climatechange   #globalwarming   #sustainability   #green   #carbon   #greenhope   #keystone  

This reflection is provoked by the excellent Feb 19th +David Roberts piece in +Grist, http://grist.org/climate-energy/the-virtues-of-being-unreasonable-on-keystone/

It was a critique of this Feb 18th +Andrew Revkin piece in +The New York Times, http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/18/is-there-room-fo-varied-approaches-to-energy-and-climate-progress/  You'll find Andrew's initial counter there as well.

The exchange is fascinating. Andrew seems to take a reasonable position, no less attractive than David's passionate one.David criticize... more »

2013-02-23 19:11:40 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Juventud con esperanza

Es lo típico pensar que la juventud se pierde en vicios y superficialidades, que no asimilan los valores que les enseñamos los adultos, que no miran hacia el futuro con sueños y pasión. Aquí vemos a uno, mi hijo Carlos, que nos comunica todo lo contrario y nos recuerda que no hay espacio para tal escepticismo. La juventud vibra con visión y esperanza.

Si entienden que este mensaje le puede servir de inspiración a otros jóvenes, compártanlo. De eso se trata.

2013-02-18 01:53:04 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 9 +1s)

Was there ever any doubt?

Great Fast Company article about something we Gplussers have known from the very beginning. It's coming.

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2013-02-27 00:30:10 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)

We won't make it without collaboration
#greenhope  

I just joined Cooperative Systems, a new G+ community, because it is clear that collaborative action will be indispensable in solving the world's climate challenge and bringing about the Green Hope we've been talking about of late in this space.

This video, linked in the community's home page, hits it on the nail. Check it out and reflect on how the collaboration trends Rheingold describes apply to climate change, especially the Tragedy of the Commons.

2013-02-17 19:40:44 (4 comments, 4 reshares, 10 +1s)

Locally Owned Business

Keeping money circulating locally will help reinvigorate the local economy and generate desperately needed jobs. 

Non-locally owned businesses increase hierarchy, economic inequality, dependence and various other social issues http://goo.gl/rAiZu

2013-02-16 15:19:12 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

When the Minimum Wage Makes Economists Smile

http://blogs.hbr.org/fox/2013/02/the-minimum-wage-and-textbook.html

2013-02-27 00:26:45 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 6 +1s)

The China Question settled
More on Green Hope 2: Sustainability https://plus.google.com/u/0/118018939924152190745/posts/h5FjND9pM8R

#climate   #climatechange   #globalwarming   #sustainability   #jamesmurray   #china   #coal   #carbon   #greenhope  

There can be no better argument to settle the China question that haunts us all, once and for all -- the one that says that as long as the Asian giant continues to energize its relentless growth with coal, all our efforts in the West and China's own impressive green plunge will be for naught, so why bother.

Why bother? James Murray of +BusinessGreen makes the case for one answer in this eloquent piece. We must bother because cleantech and greenovation are happening in multiple corners of the world whether or not we bother to join the wave in ours, so it would be utter stupidity notto. http:... more »