Category: Systems Science

  • Green peace compels Mango, Esprit to clean up their supply chains

    Mango, Esprit Pledge to Eliminate Toxic Chemicals From Supply Chains by 2020, Thanks to Greenpeace Campaign ecouterre.com Green­peace’s “Detox” cam­paign is hav­ing a ban­ner month. Not only did the envi­ron­men­tal non­prof­it con­vince Zara, the world’s No. 1 appar­el retail­er, to com­mit to elim­i­nat­ing haz­ardous chem­i­cals from its sup­ply chain by 2020, but… http://flip.it/L9zUA Related articles…

    Read article →

  • Fossil Fuel Subsidies In Focus At Doha Climate Talks

    AP, huffingtonpost.com DOHA, Qatar — Has­san al-Kubaisi con­sid­ers it a gift from above that dri­vers in oil- and gas-rich Qatar only have to pay $1 per gal­lon at the pump. “Thank God that our coun­try is an oil pro­duc­er and the price of gaso­line is one of the… Fossil Fuel Subsidies In Focus At Doha…

    Read article →

  • Soda stream disrupts beverage industry waste

    SodaStream’s Banned Ad Helps Home Carbonation Company Hit It Big Rachel Tepper, huffingtonpost.com An ad for SodaS­tream, a home car­bon­a­tion prod­uct, has been mak­ing the rounds world­wide. In it, bot­tles of soda seem to com­bust spon­ta­neous­ly every time some­one uses the SodaS­tream else­where in the world. The take­away: why pay for… http://flip.it/BgTFD Related articles 3…

    Read article →

  • Why Cell Phones Went Dead After Hurricane Sandy

    Editorials, bloomberg.com After Hur­ri­cane Sandy, sur­vivors need­ed, in addi­tion to safe­ty and power, the abil­i­ty to com­mu­ni­cate. Yet in parts of New York City, mobile com­mu­ni­ca­tions ser­vices were knocked out for days. The prob­lem? The com­pa­nies that… http://flpbd.it/aV6Ma Why Cell Phones Went Dead After Hurricane Sandy Related articles Coldplay’s Chris Martin Supports Hurricane Sandy Relief…

    Read article →

  • Can the U.S. Create Its Own German-Style Energy Revolution?

    By Osha Gray Davidson, bloomberg.com InsideClimateNews.org (Phoenix, Ari­zona) — From a block away, the house was hard­ly vis­i­ble, hid­den by a dense stand of native mesquite and palo verde trees and tall clumps of prick­ly pear cac­tus. Close up, you could see the con­crete block… http://flpbd.it/wYLbh Can the U.S. Create Its Own German-Style Energy Revolution?…

    Read article →

  • Blame Wimpy for Slow U.S. Response to Climate Change

    By Eric Roston, bloomberg.com In the halt­ing, mea­sured lan­guage we’ve come to expect from his impromp­tu pub­lic remarks, Pres­i­dent Obama posed a core dilem­ma of cli­mate change yes­ter­day at his first post-election press con­fer­ence. Explain­ing the pos­si­ble… Blame Wimpy for Slow U.S. Response to Climate Change Related articles Keystone XL will “lock in” more climate…

    Read article →

  • Harvard design iPad book will never go out of date

    An iPad Guide To Building The Perfect Sustainable City By Kyle VanHemert, fastcodesign.com “Ecological Urbanism,” a book of essays published by the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2010, was destined to fall out of date. The iPad version won’t have that problem. In 2010, Har­vard’s Grad­u­ate School of Design pub­lished… RT @FastCompany: Via @FastCoDesign,…

    Read article →

  • When will someone invent a usable pellet stove?

    (via The Pellet Stove That Actually Looks Like It Was Made in the 21st Century) Related articles >US Stove 69FAK Fresh Air Kit for Corn and Pellet Stoves (usstove69fakpelletstovesmy.wordpress.com) $>Wood Pellet Basket Heater, Alternative Heating Source Using Wood Pellets in Your Wood Stove or Fireplace (woodpelletbasketpelletsstovemy.wordpress.com) !BOSCA BCPS700i Soul 700 Pellet Stove (boscabcps700isoulpelletstovemy.wordpress.com) Quadra-Fire Pellet…

    Read article →