I just met a woman whose company develops and deploys sustainable agriculture solutions, and I had the opportunity to ask her about her viewpoints on the topic. A quick summary: • No-till farming. This is an agricultural technique for growing …
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Sustainable Lawns
Many baby-boomers, if given the chance to go back in time and rethink what type of lawns would surround our houses, might have made the choice our ancestors made.
“Climate Risk Is Investment Risk”–Coming from an Authoritative Source
BlackRock, the world’s largest investment management corporation with nearly $7 trillion under management, has recently committed to make investment decisions with environmental sustainability as a core goal, and begin to exit certain investments that “present a high sustainability-related risk,” such …
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“Predictions Are Hard To Make, Especially About the Future” — Yogi Berra
The meme here made me smile, as it illustrates the challenges we face with predicting the future 50 years hence, while calling to mind scientists’ beliefs as to how climate change is going to affect humankind over that same period …
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Tagged with: adaptation to climate change, advanced nuclear, aneutronic fusion, catastrophe brought on by global warming, clean energy, efficiency solutions, electric transportation, fission of thorium, green roofs, how climate change will affect humankind, reforestation, scale renewable energy, seawalls, storage, sustainable ag, unprecedented investment in cleantech
Superfoods and Sustainable Ag
Who doesn’t like a cool graphic, when it is both beautiful and inspiring at the same time? Fortunately, there are several long-term trends that lead us to believe that sustainable ag has a real chance for success, one of which …
Marrying Cleantech Solutions with Sources of Investment Capital
I want to send you this as a reminder that I’m still in the business of bringing together solid ideas in cleantech (mostly renewable energy) with sources of investment capital.
America At a Crossroads
Most Americans are unaware that the U.S. is the only country on Earth in which there exists a debate among its political elites as to the validity of the theory of anthropogenic global warming. Elsewhere, climate change is simply accepted …
Tagged with: cleantech, climate change is accepted as objective fact, efficiency solutions, electric transportation and synthetic fuels, energy storage, geoengineering, low-carbon energy, melting of ice and snow in the Arctic, plant-based meats, reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, renewables and nuclear, smart grid, sustainable ag, tools we have to deal with climate change, validity of the theory of anthropogenic global warming
Marketing Can Be Shameless, and the Products It Promotes Can Be Harmful
I’ve been chatting with an old friend who, like me, had a long career in marketing; she became a VP at Grey Advertising. She told me about her experience at a practice round for the PGA Championship (that starts today …
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Tagged with: catastrophic climate change, electric transportation, energy storage, loss of biodiversity, marketing, ocean acidification, renewable energy and all the peripheral technologies, smart grid, sustainable ag, the fossil fuel boys knew 35 years ago that their business model (extracting the last molecule of petroleum out of the ground and burning it
Top Investment Strategies
I normally keep my investment strategies to myself, but I was thinking about this just now, and I thought I’d mention some things that make me salivate in terms of opportunities: First, here’s what I decline to buy: Won’t buy …
Tagged with: alt energy, alt fuel cars, Chinese acquisition of the Waldorf Astoria, Chinese are extremely brand-conscious, climate change mitigation, CODA Automotive, H. L. Mencken, No one ever went broke betting on the stupidity of the American people, power utilities’ financial strength is built solely around growth, smart grid, solutions to water scarcity, sustainable ag, Top Investment Strategies, we’re consuming less power for several different reasons
Country House Could Be the Focus of Eco-tourism, Sustainable Ag, or Building Efficiency
I happened to sit next to Henry van Moyland, the proprietor of this place: “Cefntilla” in Monmouth, Wales on my way home from the East Coast last night. We didn’t discuss the subject, but, according to some of the reports …
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