Posted on 10 September 2011 by Sustainability Digest
Round hay bales near Cambridge, IA. Image credit:Flickr,cwwycoff1
Search on the terms “hay pollutant epa” and you’ll see hundreds of recent links with statements inferring that USEPA has ‘declared hay to be a pollutant.’ The source most often cited is indirect and provides no attribution within the Agency. A website covering a ranching industry meeting cites the following answer given in response to a question asked by an unidentified audience member: “Now that EPA has declared hay a pollutant…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 08 September 2011 by Sustainability Digest
Time was, if you were unemployed in the upper Midwest during fall at least you had pheasant season to look forward to. At least that. The fall leaves lifted your mood.. Something good to eat was yours if you shot straight.. A few feathers for your daughter to insert into her braids. And, some bang..bang exercise before the snows came. Not any more. Congress has managed to ruin even that.
Congress began by significantly upping corn ethanol incentives, encouraging farmers to plow fence row to fence row. Corn exports were encouraged for a climate-disaster wracked China. ‘Why stop here?’…Congress asked itself. It then proceeded to gut th…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 16 August 2011 by Sustainability Digest
Conflict (Chess II) Image & caption credits:Flickr, Cristian V.
‘Gambit’ gets used diffusely. A Gambit is a chess opening in which a player sacrifices a pawn, with the hope of achieving a resulting advantageous position. So a political analogy is what I intend.
With renewable energy approaching the crossover point – a place from which it could successfully compete in electricity markets – carbon-based fuel suppliers needed a gambit to hold onto their markets. They found one in the Republican Party. Sacrificial lambs may s…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 16 August 2011 by Sustainability Digest
Conflict (Chess II) Image & caption credits:Flickr, Cristian V.
‘Gambit’ gets used diffusely. A Gambit is a chess opening in which a player sacrifices a pawn, with the hope of achieving a resulting advantageous position. So a political analogy is what I intend.
With renewable energy approaching the crossover point – a place from which it could successfully compete in electricity markets – carbon-based fuel suppliers needed a gambit to hold onto their markets. They found one in the Republican Party. Sacrificial lambs may s…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 08 July 2011 by Sustainability Digest
“Solar powered street lights – Gwadar – Alternate energy services” Image credit:Flickr, wetlandsofpakistan
After Pakistan’s extensive hydroelectric power resources dried up in 2008, Australian coal was marketed to satisfy the growing power consumption of a burgeoning population. Think it’s a stretc…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 02 July 2011 by Sustainability Digest
“Peter Pan playing the Pipes.” Image credit:Wikipedia
Environmentalists, government regulators, and captains of industry all rely on mathematical modeling to gain insights into how the future might turn, were a regulation passed, an investment made, or a market strategy taken. The method is a half-century in the making.
In the mid-1970′s – 40 years ago – mainframe computer renditions of the Streeter-Phelps Equation were used to allocate wastewater discharge permit limits…Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Posted on 05 May 2011 by Sustainability Digest
Image credits: USEIA, Weekly Retail Gasoline Prices (5/2/2011)
When recently I wrote the post GOP Post-Birther Strategy: ‘ Where’s Our Cheap Gas’ the way forward was overlooked. Without further ado, I present the obvious: with Canada in top supply position (as pictured), expect any serious GOP presidential candidate to make Ottawa pilgrimage. Praise the Lord and pass the campaign contributions….Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Posted on 15 April 2011 by Sustainability Digest
Wind rose plot. Image credit:Wikipedia
All manner of wonderful graphics are being created from the newly-available 2010 US Census data. A new sort of nuclear family, for example, is portrayed with this mouse-over map showing the population density inside 10 and 50 mile evacuation radii around the US’ 65 nuclear power plants (containing a total of 104 reactors).
The upshot: One in every three Americans currently resides less than 50 miles f…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 09 April 2011 by Sustainability Digest
Image credit:USGS, via Wikipedia
Syngenta, Swiss manufacturer of the herbicide Atrazine (very popular with US farmers but banned in Europe) and the widely-used fungicides Bravo and Daconil (formulations of chlorothalonil, a molecule similar to other long-banned pestsicides, but still available everywhere) has encountered some new eco-tox information about it’s chlorothalonil-based formulations that might potentially lead to increased regulatory scrutiny. It kills frogs. At the tested concentration, most of the frogs. Turn the page…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Posted on 19 March 2011 by Sustainability Digest
Image credit:NASA, via Youtube
It seemed as if Republican Wisconsin State legislators had decided to do something practical about climate change with their pending vote to overturn a long-standing moratorium on new nucs in the State. With the news from Japan, they’ve backed down it seems.
Maybe the Tea Party provided a screech-in-the-ear reminder to ‘get government out of our lives!‘ (Without government backed loans and insurance, the nuclear renaissance of the 1970′s would never have happened.) Or else Wisconsin Republ…Read the full story on TreeHugger
