In February of this year, my wife Catrin and I had the great pleasure and privilege of traveling to Adelaide, Australia for the third International Solar Cities Congress. Living in Florida as we do, we assumed that we could tolerate the arid summer weather which the state of South Australia had in store for us. We were wrong.
As it turned out, the damage to our planet’s ozone layer, which received so much attention during the 1980’s and was supposed to be ameliorated by the global ban on chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), has left a lingering effect Down under, oppressive solar radiation. As a result, although we managed to arrange our schedule so that we saw many wonderful sites and sounds, we also spent much more time indoors than we originally had planned.
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DATELINE: JUNEAU, Alaska, April 18, 2008 – Montpelier, Vermont is known as one of the most picturesque capital cities in America. Having lived near there for almost 3 years in the 1980’s, I can attest that Montpelier’s reputation for natural splendor is very well earned. However, the tiny capital with the golden dome pales by comparison with Juneau, Alaska, located on the historic Marine highway.
Another key difference between these cities is that millennia ago, Montpelier sat atop a glacier. Juneau sits near one today, the Mendenhall Glacier, just a 20-minute drive from the center of town.
For decades, glacier and icecap science activities have been relatively convenient for researchers and tourists alike. Now, they are downright treacherous because of the record melting underway there. In recent years, Alaska has seen summertime high temperatures at or above 95° Fahrenheit and now Juneau has begun to pay the price.
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T.E.D., which stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, began in 1984 as an annual conference. Now owned by The Sapling Foundation, TED is the preeminent gathering for thought leaders from around the world and amplified by the power of the Internet. Host to weekly talks, the TED.com website is a wonderful hub of information.
Back in February, a TED video was posted which gives us the latest news on Al Gore and an important update on the facts and predictions offered in Mr. Gore’s Oscar-winning film, An Inconvenient Truth. It is a 30-minute update which everyone who breathes needs to see. It is truly superb and the Lake Lanier drought pics alone will open your eyes.
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“This is a one-of-a-kind promotion that lets everyone who gets the magazine take part in an environmental program ... Target shoppers will recycle their shopping bags and, in return, get a practical bag that can be used all the time.”
- Newsweek President Greg Osberg
While much of the mainstream press in the United States and around the world does at least a competent job reporting on environmental issues, especially global warming, Newsweek magazine set the bar very high in its special April 14, 2008 issue, Environment & Leadership: Who’s the Greenest of Them All? How? Newsweek magazine collaborated with Target Corporation and TerraCycle Inc. to help promote Target Corporation’s Retote recycled plastic shopping bag in a unique way.
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Tom Szaky, cofounder and CEO of Recycle Inc., is an environmental pioneer and inspiring success story. As a promising student at Ivy League Princeton University a few short years ago, Mr. Szaky saw the great potential of a tried-and-true environmental technology, vermiculture (the science of worms and their role in our biome) and, much like Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates did several years earlier, promptly dropped out of school to pursue his dream.
Fast forward to the present day and his company, TerraCycle, plays a vital role in a program worthy of everyone’s attention, the Retote recycled plastic shopping bag from Target Corporation.
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During the month of April, I painted a financial picture for you, one in which the unified earth theory can be applied in the United States and elsewhere through adherence of the triple bottom line of sustainability. These crucial principles can help us respond to global warming better and faster than simply taking a step-by-step approach. However, there’s another benefit which we must consider. It has an environmental and humanitarian aspect.
You see, indigenous populations in the tropical rain forest, such as in South America, suffer greater and greater encroachment from city dwellers and farmers every year. This is caused by economic mismanagement on the part of local and state government but also pressure from industrialized nations to continue providing cheap imported goods while ignoring the principles of sustainability.