Spring 2014
I think this short opinion piece fits in well with the Easter Island reading. It is interesting to consider that our instincts are optimized to react to threats that present a clear and immediate danger (e.g being chased by a tiger). The piece suggests that relying on people to make sustainable choices is not an effective way to address climate change because there isn’t sufficient pressure of an immediate danger.
Below is a path to the Villanova University website which shares information as to what they’re doing on campus to improve stormwater by reducing the amount of volume of runoff and improving the quality by removing pollutants through means of stormwater BMP’s. I’m a Civil Engineer and deal with this daily so I figured I’d share what another school around the area is doing.
http://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/engineering/research/centers/vcase/vusp1.html#tb=none
Link Here.
Paul Gilding is an Australian environmentalist. “He is an independent writer, activist and adviser on a sustainable economy.”
He gives a detailed lecture about the effect of scarcity of resources and land because of the increasing population.
MetLife Stadium touts its progress toward sustainability
I saw this article while reading NPR news on my phone the other day.
Out in the Dakotas there is a formation called the Bakken shale, which contains a lot of oil and gas that has recently become economically recoverable due to hydrofracking technology. Basically they are flaring off (burning) huge amounts of cheap natural gas to get at the oil, which is a much more lucrative product on the open market. Sustainable????
And industry has apparently promised to do better, see this NYT article
Is this working? Hope so
Nice work today!
thoughts on Earthrise and Chris Jordan’s cell phones photo
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