Ray Anderson, CEO of Interface, one of the world’s largest manufacturer of carpet, talks about the business case for sustainability.
Interface’s story is inspiring, particularly as they recognize:
Business and Industry is (1) the largest culprit causing the decline of the biosphere and (2) the only institution large, pervasive and powerful enough to lead humankind out of this mess.
Importantly, Interface recognizes that getting to sustainability is a multi-year process. Their leadership in sustainability research and development has been tremendous.
Permafrost – ice in polar regions that remain throughout the year – is melting. In addition to having an impact on surface structures, like creating drunken forests, the permafrost has also been trapping enormous pools of methane, another potent global warming pollutant that is 21 times more effective than carbon dioxide in warming the climate.
With the permafrost thinning and melting, this stuff is now being released into the atmosphere. If all the permafrost would melt, atmospheric methane would increase by a factor of 10.
With an estimated 5.6 billion tonnes of methane in the atmosphere now, such a release would be the global warming equivalent of releasing 1.2 trillion tonnes of CO2.
How many tonnes of carbon dioxide are in our atmosphere now? 760 billion.
Webecoist looks at 10 abandoned energy plants that once produced clean, renewable power but, through neglect and/or changes in policy or business fortunes, have since gone under or have been decommissioned.
Following the lead of the City of Los Angeles and Yahoo, Google recently employed a new landscaping service to its grounds in Mountain View, California: Goats.
