by Gil Friend | Jan 27, 2003 | Sustainability
Making Prices Work For The Environment – Environmental Fiscal Reform in Europe (Austria), Fiscal Reform Campaign, December 17th, 2002 The very well attended conference with experts from many different European Countries gave an overview of the development of...
by Gil Friend | Jan 26, 2003 | Sustainability
Consider the coming angst about water. Saudis Worry as They Waste Their Scarce Water. Saudi Arabia’s shallow aquifers are quickly disappearing. By Craig S. Smith. [New York Times: Science] It’s not just a problem for desert nations. Viz urban – rural...
by Gil Friend | Jan 24, 2003 | Sustainability
A flurry of responses to the “chips with that” posting yesterday. A very smart friend displays a classic right wing antipathy to all things “environmental,” evidently unaware of the business case for “zero waste.” One consultant...
by Gil Friend | Jan 23, 2003 | Sustainability
According to UN University research: So what are the environmental impacts of producing and using a 32-megabyte DRAM computer chip that weighs a mere 2 grams? The UNU team found that to make every one of the millions manufactured each year requires 32 kg of water, 1.6...
by Gil Friend | Jan 23, 2003 | Sustainability
A few notes, while multi-tasking, from her interview this morning on KQED/Forum: We _are_ nature. Part of our problem is that we’ve been thinking otherwise. Looking for a mentor: “We don’t necessarily think to look to the organisms that have done...
by Gil Friend | Jan 23, 2003 | Sustainability
Forum host Michael Krasny talks to science writer Janine Benyus about biomimicry, a new science that studies nature’s models and then imitates or takes inspiration from these designs and processes to solve human problems. Today, 10am,...
