It is ironic that when water becomes scarce, we start to look at rainwater and say, why are we letting this run off and be wasted. In some locations, like Bermuda, those limestone white roofs are more than just pretty, they help to clean the rainwater so that it can be stored in cisterns. In […]
Plastics; we never seem to stop talking about plastic. Should we ban plastic bags, styrofoam, microbes? Will plastic go away? Should we compost it? What are we to do? There is no easy answer. The recent study done by the NY/NJ Baykeeper adds more support to the argument that the best way to deal with […]
I cannot blame the utility company for looking at renewable energy and the lower profits caused by the availability of cheap fossil fuels. But of course, the cost of fossil fuels is not real. We still, and I know that I have been on my soapbox about this for some time, provide obscene levels of […]
When oil prices hit the skids, recycling markets suffer. This has been in the news for the past several weeks and I have had the pleasure of discussing this issue on CBS on two separate occasions. Now we see the New York Times commenting on the same issue. I have responded to this issue in […]
Every time that I write a blog post that deals with sustainability, I wonder if I am writing comments that resonate with business leaders. For many years, it appeared that there was a dichotomy between those that practiced sustainability and those that were of the opinion that those of us in the environmental field were […]