Scott Cooney writes on Triple Pundit about ecopsychology…the correlation between sustainable lifestyle choices and happiness (which seem to focus, in this particular article, on how much happier Germans are than Americans, even though Americans earn and consume so much more. But Germans have a lot more time off work, and presumably spend some of that [...]
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Ecopsychology Stats, With Marketing Implications
June 22nd, 2009 · Comments Off · Abundance and Prosperity, Advertising, Energy & Sustainability, Marketing Techniques and Philosophies
Tags: american lifestyles·amory lovins·ecopsychology·german lifestyles·principled profit·triple pundit
Nuclear Power is STILL Shortsighted and Stupid
June 20th, 2009 · Comments Off · Abundance and Prosperity, Energy & Sustainability
To those who say nonpolluting renewables are just as if not more expensive… 1. Take a look at the work of people like Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who demonstrates over and over again that when you take a whole-systems approach to locally-grown solar and wind power, economies show up that conventional design and engineering miss completely–like the ability to eliminate a furnace. 2. Count the true costs of nuclear, without all the subsidies and hiding costs by moving them into other budget streams, and the picture is different.
Tags: amory lovins·nuclear power pant decomissioning·nuclear power problems·rocky mountain institute·triple pundit
Could Energy Retrofits be the Best Performing Investment?
April 15th, 2009 · View Comments · Abundance and Prosperity, Energy & Sustainability
If the improvements have even a 20-year lifespan, that $13.2 million investment would return $176 million, and that’s with stable energy prices. The number is much, much higher if you factor in average energy cost increases of 5 percent a year.
Tags: amory lovins·empire state building·energy retrofit·investment·principled profit·rocky mountain institute·saving energy
Do Inventions Come From Frustration or Innovation? #blogboost
August 21st, 2010 · View Comments · Energy & Sustainability, General Commentary, International Association of Earth-Conscious Marketers
You’ve all heard, “Necessity is the Mother of Invention.” Well, perhaps that’s true. But another parent might be frustration: wanting to do something better, more easily, faster than you currently can. Yes, some products are developed to fill a need we haven’t known we had. Advances in portable technology, from the beach transistor radio and [...]
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Tags: amory lovins·innovation·International Association of Earth-Conscious Marketers·mother of invention·r. buckminster fuller