Posts Tagged by going green
From Guest-Blogger Joshua Okomo: A Nation Going Green Is Growing Jobs
| March 5, 2012 | Posted by okomo under Renewables - Business |
Renewable energy investment is not only for energy deployment and world ecology management, it is also for jobs. Nations can choose ruthless economic growth when economic growth is never accompanied by democracy, empowerment and human rights or fruitless economic growth when growth is accompanied by reducing job opportunities.
Throughout the world availability of good jobs is the cheapest way to create human development, enlarging peoples choices to live a long , decent and productive life. Renewable energy technologies create more jobs per megawatt of power generated, and per dollar invested in construction, manufacturing and installation as compared to coal or natural gas. Read More
SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN GREEN; OUR SURVIVAL DEPENDS UPON IT!
| October 10, 2011 | Posted by Teleos1 under Sustainability |
By: Ollie Oelofse, Founder and CEO, True North Bridged Technologies, Inc. Sacramento, CA
By: Yvonne R. Davis, M.S. M.A., P.C., Chief Operating Officer and Director of International Relations, True North Bridged Technologies, Inc., Sacramento, CA
More than participating in “Going Green” initiatives around the globe, or becoming a member of an elite clique of high minded Green Revolutionaries who now more-than-ever pro-actively engage in sustainable capitalism, the crisis we face is that time is no longer on our side to convince the masses to make an attitude adjustment towards authentic social consciousness for change. The clock has struck Midnight. Our base level of existence is in jeopardy. According to the United Nations Environment Agency within 50-years over 3-billion humans will be in dire straights because they will have limited or no access to water. Inclusive of the developed world, food nsecurity will continue to rise and take a poll position in the lives of children and families. Abraham Maslow’s first hierarchy of need – food, shelter and clothing is a dying luxury. Read More
The Greening of Bermuda
| September 4, 2009 | Posted by Craig Shields under Renewables - Politics |
Over the next few days, I’ll be posting a few articles on my company’s work with the island nation of Bermuda. From the standpoint of the raw facts, Bermuda is probably the best candidate on the planet to “go green” in a big way. As a people, they’re wealthy and enlightened. As a tourist destination, they’re anxious to make a statement. As a physical locale, they suffer from the pollution of their power plant’s historic reliance upon diesel. And as a candidate for electric transportation, can anything be more auspicious than expensive gas, high tariffs on internal combustion engine cars, short driving distances and low speed limits?
At this point, I would like to introduce you to the Bermuda Electric Light, Power & Traction Company or BELCO – the power utility that is wrestling with a great number of alternatives to fossil fuels: solar, wind, tidal, etc. I invite you to read the reports of the vendors that have been asked to create proposals for five different green technologies. As you read these documents, perhaps you’ll be thinking along the same lines that I am: How many do they really need? Isn’t one better (probably FAR better) than the other four?
I’m always amused by the pundits who say that we in the US need to blend many different alternative fuels. Outside of politics, exactly why? Given the configuration of our land mass vis-à-vis the sun’s path, our predominant wind patterns, the location and depth of our subterranean pockets of heat, the flow of our rivers, and the nature of our ocean currents, isn’t there one best solution? I think so.
