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Carbon footprinting

nobody@flickr.com (kevin dooley) — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 08:13:07 -0700

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Examples of carbon footprinting on consumer products, Japan's Ecoleaf program.

Carbon footprinting

nobody@flickr.com (kevin dooley) — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 08:13:09 -0700

kevin dooley posted a photo:

Examples of carbon footprinting on consumer products, Japan's Ecoleaf program.

Carbon footprinting

nobody@flickr.com (kevin dooley) — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 08:13:03 -0700

kevin dooley posted a photo:

Examples of carbon footprinting on consumer products, Japan's Ecoleaf program.

Carbon footprinting

nobody@flickr.com (kevin dooley) — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 08:13:12 -0700

kevin dooley posted a photo:

Examples of carbon footprinting on consumer products, Japan's Ecoleaf program.

Ungreen

nobody@flickr.com (kevin dooley) — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:14:40 -0700

kevin dooley posted a photo:

Ever since I started this huge "sustainable product indexing" project, I've done nothing but fly, which is one of the ungreenest things you can do. (thx Petra for title!)

Vivitar Ultra Wide and Slim (cropped) with Kodak Elitechrome EBX 100 XPRO. (Explore)

Hope for the planet

nobody@flickr.com (kevin dooley) — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 06:08:07 -0700

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Some hope for the planet... I was in Bentonville, Arkansas all this week, where WalMart announced that it will be creating a system to put a sustainability index on every product it sells, and that it will work with other retailers and manufacturers to make it a single standard (webcast can be seen here).

The sustainability index will communicate the environmental and social impact of the product from a life cycle perspective.

WalMart and other corporations have funded the Sustainability Consortium, led by Arizona State University and University of Arkansas, to help provide the research needed to support the effort. I am excited to be part of the team that will develop an "open" life cycle inventory system. Such a system will enable companies to estimate the environmental and social impact of their product through raw material acquisition, manufacturing, distribution, use, and disposal/recycling.

The world places a lot of emphasis on tracking carbon dioxide and other green house gases because of their effect on global climate change, but water--both its availability and its health--is a huge sustainability issue also.

From a production standpoint, most agricultural products require a lot of water--Did you know that it takes 300 gallons of water to make a 12 ounce can of Coke? Most of it is because of the water needed to grow the sugar cane. On the consumption side, drying of Himalayan glaciers could put one-sixth of the world's population at risk for fresh water.

Let's hope we can move as fast as we need to. (Explore Front Page)

Sustainable ports

nobody@flickr.com (kevin dooley) — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:38:35 -0700

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In large

I've been doing research on the environmental and social impacts of ports, and let me tell you, ports can be dirty places! The port facility itself can be energy intensive and emit pollutants, and then if you add all the ships and trucks and rail... whoa. Making ports more sustainable is an important goal for us.

The Port of Long Beach, shown above, is one port that is making great strides. One simple idea that cuts down pollutants and green house gases is to require ships and trucks to "plug in" for their electricity, so they're not idling their own vehicles while waiting.

We fly the flag of Kiribati

nobody@flickr.com (kevin dooley) — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:50:43 -0800

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This came out kinda weird, huh?

In our backyard we fly the flag of Kiribati, which is the first nation in line to be obliterated, literally, by climate change. These Pacific islanders are already contemplating a wholesale relocation away from their homeland as sea levels rise.

Christmas #17 -- How much does my Christmas tree contribute to climate change?

nobody@flickr.com (kevin dooley) — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:26:12 -0800

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2200 lights on the main tree. What's the carbon impact of that...? (Explore)

We're at the tipping point for climate change (bonus: face in the clouds)

nobody@flickr.com (kevin dooley) — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 05:32:17 -0800

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(Thanks myoakforest for noticing the face in the cloud)

We're at the tipping point for climate change. I don't mean physically, I mean socially--roughly half of us believe that we need to intervene now in order to stave off or adapt to inevitable changes, while half believe that the predicted effects are overblown and a long way off.

According to Ev Rogers, the guru theorist of innovation diffusion, we are at the "late majority" stage. The late majority, according to Rogers, is influenced most by friends, family, and peers--meaning, you and me. They're not as influenced by media or "science" per se.

So get out there are sell it!

Vivitar Ultra Wide and Slim with Fujichrome Titanium ISO 64 (T64) XPRO 35mm film.

Global warming

nobody@flickr.com (kevin dooley) — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:24:59 -0700

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The image above is:

a. A thermal image of the earth taken right after Barack Obama's historic acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention.

b. An actual picture of the Earth in 2230, generated via the Globostarplus simulation model #188d.

c. Bad computer art.

d. Monsoon season in Arizona, through the viewfinder (TtV) of a 1960 Kodak Brownie Starflex.

Reflections

nobody@flickr.com (kevin dooley) — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:53:05 -0700

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(Explore) I have been reading the reports on global warming at the IPCC, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. As a business school professor, I am particularly interested in how human communities, economies, and businesses will adapt to the challenges of the future. I have been studying the polar region and Greenland in particular because I think these places are the most affected right now--by studying how communities and economies in this region adapt, perhaps there can be lessons for all of us.

Once one gets over the shocking facts in the report--for example, there is now at least one model of ice melt that has the north pole free of ice, all year, by 2013--the interesting tone of the report is that adaptation will be highly localized. And indeed at my conference, where we had a number of environmentalists, the message was the same: While climate change is global, its effects and solutions will be highly localized. Right now we see a lot of "top-down" activity--Kyoto accord, Walmart's positive efforts--but in the future the resilience of our society will be based on local creativity and political courage.

Every photographer eventually takes a dead fish shot

nobody@flickr.com (kevin dooley) — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:12:00 -0700

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Here's mine.