How To Measure Green

One of the frustrating things about changing to a sustainable practice model is finding ways to measure the total impact of your actions. The World Business Council for Sustainable Development, after two years of work, has just launched a framework for measuring this very thing.

Oil Companies As Suppliers Of Fresh Drinking Water

Water is as precious as oil if you’re thirsty (and China for example has no drinking water left, everything has to be boiled) - so who do you turn to for fresh water? Maybe oil companies.

Environment & Energy Daily’s Greenwire makes the point that while oil companies are urged to enter into alien industries such as solar and wind power, their more natural target might be the water they’ve long been accustomed to drilling through.

Oil Addiction Hastens Desert Planet Earth

A new report from WWF-UK warns that efforts to extract so-called “unconventional oil” from shales and sands in Canada and Colorado will produce a far heavier carbon footprint than existing oil recovery systems - thus hastening, in the effort to gain the last drop of oil, the dangers of climate change.

Tar sand and shale extraction increases emissions as much as eightfold, while also destroying vast areas of forest.

Raising Baby Green

here’s a video of some friends of mine, talking on Fox News about raising your baby on organic foods:

Google Docs Down Today

When Google Docs goes down, that’s the end of the workflow.