Some who know me know why I have an affinity for FoMoCo. For one, I grew up in Motown. I even knew a Ford or two, including a racy Cougar. So, the Baltimore Sun picked up a piece about Ford originally printed …
The marine environment is under attack, globally. First news: regional. Second: global. While the spotted sturgeon are resurgent in the Chesapeake Bay, the rockfish population has fallen. For more, click here. What’s caused me to post is news today: “Humans …
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“We’re not aligning with skeptics.” So claimed Ben van Beurden, CEO of Royal Dutch Shell, last week in an interview with Steven Mufson of The Washington Post. “The real challenge is not so much how do we accelerate renewables but …
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Eric Schmidt, Google’s Executive Chairman, has been on a book promotion tour the last few weeks. On NPR’s Diane Rehm show earlier this week he out-and-said the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) was “literally lying” about the reality of climate …
A. Definition Eco-labels are affixed to products that pass eco-friendly criteria laid down by government, association or standards certification bodies. The criteria utilise extensive research based on the product’s life cycle impact on the environment. (source: Google search) Here are …
…or, what else to call it? Its inventor, John Kellett, has several names for it, including “trash mill.” On the Healthy Harbor website it’s called “Inner Harbor Waterwheel.” (Healthy Harbor’s an initiative of the Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore, Inc.) This …
“And when our assessments reveal a material, process or system that’s making a significant negative impact on our carbon footprint, we re‐examine how we design that product, process or facility.” Apple, Inc., the world’s second largest information technology company, grabbed …
Anybody reading this post wearing an Under Armour item of apparel right now? Does it happen to be the Catalyst tee as described above by UA? Well, back in 2011, when UA was selling less of everything ($1.47B) than it …
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or, actually, about the air. Today’s Washington Post’s headline reads: “CO2 levels in atmosphere rising at dramatically faster rate, U.N. report warns.” From the report: “The symbolically important threshold of 400 parts [CO2] per million — described by scientists as the …
