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When We Measure The Wrong Things

GDP is a poor met­ric for eval­u­at­ing invest­ments to increase effi­ciency. Every­thing else equal, more effi­ciency means that GDP is reduced. This is totally con­trary to any lean man­age­ment approach.

Germany Plans To Switch To 100% Alternative Energy By 2050

A new study issued by the Ger­man “Umwelt­bun­de­samt” comes to the con­clu­sion that Ger­many should be able to switch energy pro­duc­tion to 100% renew­able sources within 40 years. Inter­est­ingly the head of the agency, Jochen Flas­barth, states that this is doable with tech­nol­ogy that is avail­able today. Build­ing the nec­es­sary infra­struc­ture would need deci­sive action […]

Low Sustainability Ratings For Oil And Gas Corporations

An Oekom Study look­ing at 27 lead­ing oil and gas cor­po­ra­tions rates orga­ni­za­tions regard­ing their sus­tain­abil­ity. The study’s authors granted that cor­po­ra­tions try to do the right things, how­ever over­all their activ­i­ties are not focused enough and lack tan­gi­ble results. On a scale from A+ to D-, the small Aus­trian com­pany OMV ranked first with […]

Green Homes Sell!

Many builders attend­ing the National Green Build­ing Con­fer­ence stated that they have been able to sell sus­tain­ably built homes con­sid­er­ably faster than the tra­di­tion­ally built new homes that have been lan­guish­ing in today’s tough mar­ket. Espe­cially energy effi­ciency remains the fea­ture most impor­tant to con­sumers inter­ested in green build­ings. Good news is also that the price […]

You Can’t Control What You Can’t Measure

I am still con­cerned about what’s going on with the oil spill in the Gulf of Mex­ico. Pre­vi­ous esti­mates were that 800,000l oil spill into the sea every day. Some sci­en­tists come to the con­clu­sion that it is more likely to be 10 times more! It seems to be con­sen­sus that right now nobody knows […]