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Strikes me as very similar to the article about how the internet is a passing fad. Like, I get it, Tesla isn't the only game in town anymore and there's a real danger if they don't keep innovating and working to scale up that they'll be left behind, but asserting definitively that "Tesla is doomed" just seems like an invitation to put those words in the fridge so you can eat them later.

English translation of that.

OK, she's a politician so we can take every word with some scepticism and the RE transition is not fast enough (for those of us who understand why it is necessary) - but at least she is saying the right things. And Germany does continue moving faster than almost any other country towards the 100% RE utopia.

Just because there were gains from having so much available energy to burn doesn't mean that we should continue exacerbating the problems it created by using it. Fossil fuel isn't our only option. Also, the advances from industrialization doesn't mean we need to live overly consumptive lifestyles.

What a hack. The point he's making is, "there were benefits! How dare you turn on fossil fuel?" Because it causes too many problems. Plain and simple. A resource isn't something you have loyalty to. It's something to be managed responsibly.

The comparison between lives saved from weather events "thanks to petroleum driven technology" is kind of a stretch to me. It singles out one element when there is a spectrum of reality to consider. This punk needs to educate himself in the basics of ecological economics. Far from the trivial hippie nonsense might assume it is, ecological economics is based in the reality of physics (unlike classical and neoclassical economics). Saddening that people pay attention to this shill standing up and knocking over strawmen to support his weak and self important ideologies.

He finishes with... >Fossil fuels are no catastrophe. They contribute to health and a better life.

ENERGY does all the wonderful things he's talking about. Innovation and technology do those wonderful things. Fossil fuel is not a necessary component. As soon as an alternative source presents itself, it should be taken. So we are more sustainable in the long term, so we respect our ecosystems and those who live in them, so we arent dependent on oil from the middle east and can avoid the primary source of our repeated(USA) military activity there.

I have found articles, such as: THIS that describe the LED plant tech that is being used for a better more energy efficient indoor plant cultivation .

Here is a really cool wind turbine that has solar panels integrated in its design http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378778811005871

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=e-waste+recycling+plants&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C33&as_ylo=2009

some ones, actual studies though. Basically it won't just end on the west coast due to environmental regs and NIMBY, both of which pretty much don't exist in China(or are easily overcome). They are sending them to China because they are fiscally responsible but couldn't give a shit about anything else. When dealing in large volumes world travel costs are near negligible. Doubly so with the rising prices of rare earths.

Ah, another reader of Limits to Growth!. You know, there's a lot of solutions to those malthusian issues like population growth, food scarcity, etc.

Let me share a short TED video with you. I think it may inspire some to believe that there still is a good chance at creating a sustainable society.

Lights don't cost that much, in reality we are just victims of planned obsolescence https://archive.org/details/PlannedObsolescenceDocumentary http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/light-bulb-conspiracy/

Then next part is the electrical cost of running the lights... Which should be next to free and should have no negative effects on the planet. But that would require green energy and for energy production to be treated as a social right instead of a for-profit industry.

(Forget about the costs and think generally about green energy vs. fossil fuels)

Imagine that we switch to 100% local green energy production. Could we still call it for-profit?
There would be no need for drill rigs, so no massive drill companies, no drill engineers, no navel engineers or scout teams to find more oil. There would not be a huge transportation network that supplies the fuels. No Oil Tankers, no fuel trucks, no train carts, no gas stations, no pipe line operators, no regulators, no import taxes, no refinery engineers.

Green energy industries could not replace all of these jobs and related industries that supply it. Which is a double sided blade, we would not need to pay very much for energy because we don't need to support all of those workers.

The main point is that like everything else there is no simple answer.

What kind of free green bags do you mean?

It's impossible to answer your question without knowing the context.

What council? Where do you give those free bags?

I disagree with your sentiment.

> I'm sure they won't try to sell you anything.

This isn't really the problem -- pitching me something would be fairly forthright and honest, though I don't know if they even do advertising.

What is highly likely is that they collect information on me and then sell/resell it -- this is what the vast majority of large corporate web sites do.

Every article you read, every click you make, comment you enter, etc., is collected, broken down and then sold. All this happens behind the scenes without you even knowing it. You and your privacy is raped and sold and you didn't even have to pull down your pants.

This is all done with the "magic" of cookies. They were sold to gullible Internet users as a tool to keep track of you logging into a site (which it's still used for), but cookies have developed to now be very malicious and to literally track your movements across the Internet. And again, the vast majority of large corporate web sites do this.

For an in-depth explanation, see this or that.

I saw a pre-charged “emergency” phone battery at checkout that was all dolled up in green marketing. Apparently it uses “recycled” batteries. Guessing the rest of the electronics and packaging were new.

Hope it was rechargeable, but didn’t check.

Edit: fucking lol, it isn’t. Disgusting.

well they sell them...

http://www.amazon.com/PluggedSolar-Inverter-Solar-Included-Breakthough/dp/B008AQS4AY

http://cleantechnica.com/2014/03/14/plug-solar-panel-kit-truly-diy/

So perhaps you should talk to them.

Nice, but as Naomi Klein has repeatedly pointed out (and wrote a book on), global warming requires abandoning capitalism, no matter how much money initiatives like this generate.

If you get one of these you can turn them into cups.

On the water side look at low flow faucet aerators and shower heads. Most landlords don't mind you changing a shower head and if you buy decent ones they still feel as if they're putting out sufficient flow/pressure. I've tried and did like this one. As for faucet aerators, most people don't even notice if you change aerators. 1 gpm works well for bathrooms and you might want a 1.5 gpm for the kitchen so filling vessels doesn't take forever. I really like the swivel & switching type kitchen aerators that home Depot and others sell. Just check what flow your current ones are before you go out and buy. Also check whether they're male/female thread.

Other than that, I save the water I use warming up the shower in a bucket to water my garden (1+ gallons every time I shower). You can also reduce the water your toilet uses by either lowering the float or putting a brick/solid object in the tank or the like, just make sure it doesn't reduce the toilets ability to flush your more challenging deposits.

This is one more reason to hate Ethos water. I've always said it was bullshit. They give a paltry 5 cents for every bottle of water they sell. It's nothing more than a marketing gimmick to make people think they are helping others.

You can buy a 12 pack of Nestle water for $2.48. About 50 cents more than one bottle of Ethos. I'm not saying you should buy Nestle water (or bottled water at all) but if Nestle can make a profit off that think of the markup Starbucks/Ethos is getting and again they give one measly nickle.

I gotchu.

We Need to Invest in Glacial Ice Makers an That Ain Cheap, Something Like this that turns ocean water into snow, set it and forget it, and come back in 50 years and take another photo of the giant snow mountain you just made. Theory. We get it done. Theoretically.

I had a grad school professor who wrote a book that might address your interest.

http://www.amazon.com/What-Environmentalists-Need-about-Economics/dp/0230107311/ref=la_B003IUBY1S_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1353333840&sr=1-1

He didn't assign it and I am already an economist of sorts, so I have not read it so I can't say if it is any good. "market systems" and "sustainability" are both big, complex matters and it isn't within the scope of a comment thread to explain either properly, but if you explain where you are starting from and where you want to go with this, I can certainly help point you in the right direction.

I've been buying Wild Planet tuna on Amazon for a few months; they claim to be sustainably caught. Pole-caught of more plentiful species. Their albacore tastes better. My family tends to mix a can of each once a week (Saturday is tuna day for the kids).

Any redditors care to take a gander as to their sustainability? I was initially in for the pole-caught (to avoid by-catch), but the plentiful-species is even more important.