Climate Haiku!- June 30, 2006 From the impressive Sonoma County (CA) Climate Protection Campaign: climate crisis haiku! A few samples: A frog in water Doesn't feel it boil in time. Dude, we are that frog. Haiku Hullabaloo winner, Grist Magazine, July 2004 and Reduce by one fifth First step to protect climate Together no sweat Merrilyn Joyce, 92303 and CO2 haiku Is not so easy to do I'm getting hot now Doron Amiranhttp://radio.weblogs.com/0109157/categories/sustainability/2006/06/30.html#a1136 Quote of the Day- June 29, 2006 Sez Gary Liss, Mr. Zero Waste: If you're not for zero waste, how much waste are you for Nice, eh (Disclosure: Natural Logic is working with Gary on the Zero Waste Plan for Palo Alto CA, as as the California Sustainable Business Council.)http://radio.weblogs.com/0109157/categories/sustainability/2006/06/29.html#a1134 Greenlight Essay Contest- June 29, 2006 From GreenLAgirl, via GreenBusiness.net: The Greenlight Greenliving Essay Contest wants you to write a 500-word (or less) essay about how you'd renovate your home to make it environmentally friendly.Entries are due July 20, 2006. The winner gets $2,500. Sez the website: Think as big or small as you want. Be creative and original! (Greenlight is apparently a direct-to-consumer mortgage lender, FYI)http://radio.weblogs.com/0109157/categories/sustainability/2006/06/29.html#a1133 CSR reports 'trivial'- June 27, 2006 Sunday Herald (Scotland): Attempts by multinational corporations to talk up their social and environmental responsibility are so threadbare and misleading that they are preventing progress towards a sustainable future. That is the conclusion of a trenchant new study by one of the Scottish Executivebase 's leading environmental advisers, Jan Bebbington, a professor of accounting at St Andrews University. The article is light on details, though, and I haven't yet been able to find the original.http://radio.weblogs.com/0109157/categories/sustainability/2006/06/26.html#a1132 Feedback & regulatory reform- June 26, 2006 Speaking of MSWG, I'll be speaking at their conference later this morning, together with client Carol Kraege of Washington Ecology, about finding new sources of business value through innovative approaches to regulation. Specifically, we'll talk about the recent pilot project we conducted with them, exploring how comparative benchmarking of environmental footprints in the pulp and paper industry -- performance feedback -- can drive better performance, and more streamlined regulatory approaches.http://radio.weblogs.com/0109157/categories/sustainability/2006/06/26.html#a1131 We don' need to steenkin' science- June 26, 2006 Apparently not. I'm in Park City Utah today, for the Multi-State Working Group annual workshop. Salt Lake City Mayor, Rocky Anderson is giving the morning keynote, describing a surprisingly Salt Lake City Green program; they're not on the SustainLane list, which rates only the 50 largest US cities, but they have met their 2012 Kyoto target six years early, so snaps on them! When he heard that Senator Oren Hatch said that 'the science of global warming is more like science fiction,' Anderson...http://radio.weblogs.com/0109157/categories/sustainability/2006/06/26.html#a1130 Gore on King- June 13, 2006 Terry Gips of Alliance for Sustainability in Minneapolis offers this heads up:Al Gore will be discussing Inconvenient Truth and Global Warming on Larry King Live tomorrow night (Tuesday) at 8 pm.(And Ann Coulter tonight, if you can possibly stand it!)If you haven't seen it (Inconvenient Truth, not Coulter), see it now. It's important. College Republican shenanigans notwithstanding.http://radio.weblogs.com/0109157/categories/sustainability/2006/06/12.html#a1129 Cool beans- June 12, 2006 Lots of new releases geospatial releases from Google today:. Satellite imagery update: . New version of Google Earth: . Google SketchUp with textured buildings: . Updates to Google Maps and the Google Maps API, including. Google Maps API, and KML for Google Maps. Google Maps for EnterpriseGoogle Earth is available at http:earth.google.com. The Google Maps APIis available at http:www.google.comapismaps.http://radio.weblogs.com/0109157/categories/sustainability/2006/06/12.html#a1128 MashUp Showcase at Where2.0- June 12, 2006 Coming to you today from Google's GeoDeveloper Day -- the pre-event to the Where 2.0 conference tomorrow and Wednesday. Stay tuned for details -- unless I get so engroessed I forget to blog -- and most likely for a longer piece soon on WorldChanging.The Google and event focus: looking at the intersection of "search, maps and geolocation." My focus: the intersection of that with sustainability -- and sustainable business -- opportunities. And in particular, the intersection of place information..http://radio.weblogs.com/0109157/categories/sustainability/2006/06/12.html#a1127 More inconvenient truth- June 3, 2006 Al Gore's climate crisis film, 'An Inconvenient Truth', opens in the Bay Ares this week. Maybe we'll see you at the afterparty. Meanwhile, truth is apparently inconvenient for the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Remember their 'carbon is life' ad campaign that I wrote about a few days ago Well, FactCheck.org tells us that The ads drew a protest from a University of Missouri professor who says they are 'a deliberate effort to confuse and mislead the public about the global warming debate.' 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