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Carbon Capture And Storage – Convince Me, Please

A widely dis­cussed con­cept to reduce car­bon emis­sions into the atmos­phere is CCS – Car­bon Cap­ture and Stor­age. Espe­cially coal fueled power plants could be recon­fig­ured to blast car­bon diox­ide not into the air but store the stuff safely into deep geo­log­i­cal for­ma­tions. As with many ideas for emis­sion reduc­tion research in this area is […]

Cap And Trade

Cap and Trade is one of these ideas that sound good. But when exe­cuted poorly it does not ben­e­fit our planet, instead it ben­e­fits the same kind of gam­blers that brought us the near finan­cial col­lapse and the fol­low­ing big reces­sion. What is the idea behind Cap and Trade? — Cap sets a limit for […]

175 Liters Of Water For 10 Eggs?

Pro­fes­sor John Anthony Allan from King’s Col­lege Lon­don intro­duced the con­cept of “vir­tual water”. He was look­ing for the total usage of fresh water nec­es­sary to get a prod­uct to a con­sumer. It’s an eye open­ing num­ber to see that 175 l water are nec­es­sary to pro­duce 10 eggs. Or 810 l of water for […]

There Is No Green Strategy

Some of my con­sult­ing col­leagues want to sell you a green strat­egy. Your orga­ni­za­tion needs to get more envi­ron­men­tally friendly, so they say, and the first step is devel­op­ing a green strat­egy. Well, not so. See, if you develop another strat­egy tar­get­ing green chal­lenges how will it fit into your over­all busi­ness strat­egy? Or will […]

The First Carbon Tax

I got this from the “Irish Times”: “There is noth­ing new about the con­cepts of green or sus­tain­able eco­nomic growth. The Cam­bridge econ­o­mist Arthur Pigou wrote about these ideas as far back as 1912. His famous exam­ple was a fac­tory which belched forth smoke and thereby entailed “social costs” which, he believed, the man­u­fac­turer should […]