Today, Monday April 22, is the actual Earth Day and a day of volunteerism… a moment for us to reflect: Isn’t how we make our big, lifetime…… Read more “Celebrate Earth Day, by Investing Your Working Life in a Job That is Clean, Green and That Matters…”
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Here’s How a Professional Soccer Team Goes 100% Carbon Neutral. To Save the Planet, Change Yourself First.
Cool story of a professional sports team going 100% carbon neutral, Real Betis Balompie – a top team in Spain’s competitive soccer La Liga. Here’s how they…… Read more “Here’s How a Professional Soccer Team Goes 100% Carbon Neutral. To Save the Planet, Change Yourself First.”
Top Ways to Save the Planet: Here’s Our Handbook
An excellent action handbook comes to us from Al Gore, Nobel Peace Prize winner and world leader of the fight to slow the emerging climate crisis. His 2017 book Truth to…… Read more “Top Ways to Save the Planet: Here’s Our Handbook”
Travelers, Zero-out Your Pollution by Buying Carbon Offsets
As a business person and a climate solutions fan, I look for trends where the two intersect. Corporations and families are learning to nullify greenhouse gas pollution produced…… Read more “Travelers, Zero-out Your Pollution by Buying Carbon Offsets”
To Save the Planet, Change Ourselves First: Electric Cars are Already Cheaper to Run Than Gasoline Cars
Here’s a great article from The Guardian, reporting that “electric cars are already cheaper to own and run than petrol or diesel cars in the UK, US…… Read more “To Save the Planet, Change Ourselves First: Electric Cars are Already Cheaper to Run Than Gasoline Cars”
Our Story
Our goal is to stop or adapt to the emerging climate crisis. We are not trying to convince anyone how dangerous it is, but rather will focus…… Read more “Our Story”
If we take care of healthy soil, Mother Earth will take care of us
One of our most powerful global warming solutions is: “If we take care of healthy soil, Mother Earth will take care of us.” The methods to get…… Read more “If we take care of healthy soil, Mother Earth will take care of us”
Energy Efficiency: Not Sexy, yet a Superhero-Powerful Global Warming Solution
This talk by James Sweeney of Stanford University greatly clarified my thinking about solutions to global warming: His research shows that energy-efficiency is THE BIGGEST heavy hitter solution -…… Read more “Energy Efficiency: Not Sexy, yet a Superhero-Powerful Global Warming Solution”
To Slow Global Warming, Change Ourselves First: That Includes How We Invest
There are many ways to green our daily lives… but a great tool most people don’t think of is greening our investments. In particular, at least stop…… Read more “To Slow Global Warming, Change Ourselves First: That Includes How We Invest”
Know Your Superpowers, to Beat Global Warming… With You as a Warrior, We Will Win
Get started, taking action on solutions to our emerging climate crisis… while celebrating good jobs and clean, prosperous lives for millions. In a very real sense, we…… Read more “Know Your Superpowers, to Beat Global Warming… With You as a Warrior, We Will Win”
To Save the Planet, Invest Your Working Life: Hawaii Creates Jobs by Going Green
Why WOULDN’T anyone want to go work in Hawaii for a few years? Here’s a great piece from Fast Company, “Hawaii Just Passed a Law to Make…… Read more “To Save the Planet, Invest Your Working Life: Hawaii Creates Jobs by Going Green”
To Save the Planet, Change Yourself First: Climate-friendly Plant-based Meat Substitutes are Becoming Widely Available
Who knew fighting global warming could taste so good? Yummy plant-based meat substitutes are a rapidly growing new market, not just saving the planet but in the…… Read more “To Save the Planet, Change Yourself First: Climate-friendly Plant-based Meat Substitutes are Becoming Widely Available”
To Save the Planet, Support New Technologies: Carbon Fiber Saves a LOT of Gasoline, is Stronger Than Steel
Soon it will be time to get in on the emerging carbon fiber industry… especially now that researchers can make the ultrastrong, ultralight steel-replacement out of plants…… Read more “To Save the Planet, Support New Technologies: Carbon Fiber Saves a LOT of Gasoline, is Stronger Than Steel”
To Save the Planet, Invest Our Working Lives: Tesla/Panasonic’s New Solar Roof Tile Factories are Hiring
Tesla and Panasonic have launched the most exciting home construction product in decades: Attractive high-end roofing tiles that look like expensive slate, and capture the sun’s energy…… Read more “To Save the Planet, Invest Our Working Lives: Tesla/Panasonic’s New Solar Roof Tile Factories are Hiring”
To Save the Planet, Invest our Working Lives: Wind Power Jobs Continue Solid Growth in the American Midwest and Mountain West
Aside from its attractive and continuing cost reductions, wind energy also provides solid local jobs as large wind farms are built. Here is an in-depth profile of…… Read more “To Save the Planet, Invest our Working Lives: Wind Power Jobs Continue Solid Growth in the American Midwest and Mountain West”
To Save the Planet, Invest Our Working Lives: Quick video showing why there are twice as many solar jobs than coal jobs in the U.S.
Here’s a short, punchy YouTube showing why clean, well-paying solar jobs keep increasing while jobs in our most filthy energy source, coal, keep decreasing. It was put…… Read more “To Save the Planet, Invest Our Working Lives: Quick video showing why there are twice as many solar jobs than coal jobs in the U.S.”
To Save the Planet, Invest Our Careers: Where to Look? Tesla is expanding…
I had the pleasure of attending my third Tesla annual shareholders meeting yesterday, at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Among founder Elon Musk’s comments,…… Read more “To Save the Planet, Invest Our Careers: Where to Look? Tesla is expanding…”
To Save the Planet, Invest Your Working Life: Boom Times for Clean Energy Jobs
Here’s a thoughtful overview of the clean energy job market, from Rod Griffin of the Environmental Defense Fund’s quarterly magazine, EDF Solutions. Good news: There is money…… Read more “To Save the Planet, Invest Your Working Life: Boom Times for Clean Energy Jobs”
Hypnotic Video: This is What the Future Looks Like (Hint: It’s Windy)
Here’s is a fun wind farm video, from the windshield of a vehicle touring the giant wind farm in Mojave, California… in the vast deserts stretching east…… Read more “Hypnotic Video: This is What the Future Looks Like (Hint: It’s Windy)”
In One Elegant Move, Combine Two Personal Superpowers – “Invest Your Working Life” and
If you have a strong conviction on a social-change issue, there are really only three tactics you can use (Superpowers we all share, really). They come from…… Read more “In One Elegant Move, Combine Two Personal Superpowers – “Invest Your Working Life” and”
Climate change action is good for the economy – and Britain is the proof
As we are seeing today in California, “Britain has proved the doom-mongers wrong: economies can thrive while emissions fall…” To me this makes obvious sense for two…… Read more “Climate change action is good for the economy – and Britain is the proof”
Smart Factories and Energy Efficiency
Here’s a discussion on how smart factories and energy efficiency help company success while reducing carbon footprint. The event was a breakout lecture at last summer’s Silicon…… Read more “Smart Factories and Energy Efficiency”
From Greentech Media: “How the US Wind Sector Is Building Momentum, Driving Economic Benefits”
Clean wind energy is producing jobs at a fine growth pace… inspiring confidence in the wind industry. If you are a young person looking for a way…… Read more “From Greentech Media: “How the US Wind Sector Is Building Momentum, Driving Economic Benefits””
Global Warming Adaptation, Like the Emerging Advanced-Energy Sector, Will Produce a LOT of New Jobs: The Alaskan Experience
Nice investigative piece from this week’s Bloomberg… on how poorly prepared for climate adaptation Alaska currently is, given the much-warmer winters its economy now experiences. But, not…… Read more “Global Warming Adaptation, Like the Emerging Advanced-Energy Sector, Will Produce a LOT of New Jobs: The Alaskan Experience”
There are Broad Categories of New Jobs Coming, Adapting to or Preventing Global Warming
The second of our personal Superpowers is “To Save the Planet, Invest Your Working Life…” Here we pull career ideas from two fine think-tank documents: * …… Read more “There are Broad Categories of New Jobs Coming, Adapting to or Preventing Global Warming”
Tips for Finding Job Leads in the Emerging Advanced Energy Economy
In art or music, it pays to learn from the Masters… why reinvent paths a genius has already blazed for us? So for job search, glean leads…… Read more “Tips for Finding Job Leads in the Emerging Advanced Energy Economy”
From Greentech Media: Advice for Building a Cleantech Career
The second of our great Superpowers is: “If you want to save the planet, Invest Your Working Life.” I really enjoyed this podcast by Greentech Media’s Stephen Lacey, “The Future…… Read more “From Greentech Media: Advice for Building a Cleantech Career”
“Crisis” means both danger AND job opportunity
I really like Al Gore, and appreciate a morale-builder he shares with audiences, to soften some of the emotion climate change causes folks. This is from an…… Read more ““Crisis” means both danger AND job opportunity”
Your Second Superpower: “Invest Your Working Life”
Since we all have to go to work anyway, we may as well choose jobs on the side of good rather than evil… There are 2.5 million…… Read more “Your Second Superpower: “Invest Your Working Life””
Focus on big solutions that really matter
Global warming is a devilish problem, because our greenhouse gas pollution comes mostly from fossil fuels which infect every area of our civilization. But though daunting, fossil…… Read more “Focus on big solutions that really matter”
Free stuff: One-on-One Counseling, Plus a List of Low-Cost Tips
Global Warming for Busy People is a free service open to all, a labor of love really, by our authors. We are in Spring of 2017 starting…… Read more “Free stuff: One-on-One Counseling, Plus a List of Low-Cost Tips”
Two and a Half Steps to Fighting Global Warming
Maximize the effective time and skills each of us brings, without wrecking our personal lives: To Save the Planet, Change Yourself First. To Save the Planet, Invest…… Read more “Two and a Half Steps to Fighting Global Warming”
Make the Most of Our Personal Power
The biggest issue facing civilization today, “how to slow down catastrophic global warming so we have time to create the sustainable, clean economy of the future,” quickly…… Read more “Make the Most of Our Personal Power”
Global Warming, You and I 