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Solar Panel Recycling in 2019: How it Works

SustainableSA.com Posted on October 16, 2020 by stlaneOctober 28, 2020

October 16, 2020 Update: America’s Largest Solar Panel-Maker Leads the World in Panel Recycling–Recovering 95% of Materials Solar panel recycling is important for the future of solar. Solar panels have a lifetime of about 30 years. With the increasing number … Continue reading →

Posted in Alternative Fuels, Circular Economy, Doing Something, Garbage & Waste Disposal, Reduce Reuse & Recycle, Renewable Energy, Solar, Solar Energy | Leave a reply

San Antonio to Combat ‘Climate Emergency’ with New Action Plan

SustainableSA.com Posted on November 4, 2019 by stlaneNovember 4, 2019

One of America’s highest Latino-populated cities now has a strategy to address the climate crisis. Earlier this month, the San Antonio (64% Latino) City Council passed Climate Action and Adaptation Plan (CAAP) by a 10-1 vote. It outlines objectives that … Continue reading →

Posted in Alternative Fuels, Batteries & Clean Energy Storage, Circular Economy, City Planning & Urban Development, Climate Change, CPS Energy, Doing Something, Economic Development, Energy Policy, Environmental Protection Policy & Regulation, Food Security, Net Zero Buiilding, Pollution, Renewable Energy, Resilience, Sustainability, Total Cost of Energy, Transportaton, Utilities, Water, Wildlife | Leave a reply

What’s Worrying the Plastics Industry? Your Reaction to All That Waste, for One

SustainableSA.com Posted on June 20, 2019 by stlaneJune 20, 2019

HOUSTON — One by one, they stepped to a clear plastic lectern at the Global Plastics Summit here and talked about what their companies were doing in response to the world’s crisis in plastics waste. Representing businesses all along the … Continue reading →

Posted in Circular Economy, Doing Something, Environmental Protection Policy & Regulation, Food Security, Garbage & Waste Disposal, Opportunity Cost & Losses, Plastic Pollution, Pollution, Reduce Reuse & Recycle, Resilience, Security, Sustainability | Leave a reply

Plastic Packaging Alternatives

SustainableSA.com Posted on April 9, 2019 by stlaneApril 9, 2019

Tired of plastic pollution? There are many alternatives. Why should we and brands care about plastic pollution? Plastics is one of the biggest challenges the world is facing right now. Thanks to David Attenborough’s Blue Planet, consumers are suddenly aware … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, Biomimicry, Circular Economy, Doing Something, Economic Development, Environmental Protection Policy & Regulation, Food, Food Policy, Food Security, Fossil Fuels, Greenwashing, Job Creation, Opportunity Cost & Losses, Permaculture, Plastic Pollution, Pollution, Reduce Reuse & Recycle, Resilience, Security, Smart Growth, Sustainability, Water, Wildlife | Leave a reply

Where Will Your Plastic Trash Go Now That China Doesn’t Want It?

SustainableSA.com Posted on March 15, 2019 by stlaneMarch 15, 2019

What should wealthy countries do with their plastic waste now that China no longer is buying it? For years, America sold millions of tons of used yogurt cups, juice containers, shampoo bottles and other kinds of plastic trash to China … Continue reading →

Posted in Circular Economy, City Planning & Urban Development, Doing Something, Environmental Protection Policy & Regulation, Garbage & Waste Disposal, Job Creation, New Tech, Plastic Pollution, Reduce Reuse & Recycle, Resilience, Sustainability | Leave a reply

An Open Letter To Be the Change and Lead the Change

SustainableSA.com Posted on March 3, 2019 by stlaneMarch 3, 2019

Whale blubber and buggy whips were once fine industries, but progress moved us away. And today we know the days are over of a false choice between environmental protection and economic growth. Since when did the simple concept of leaving … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, Alternative Fuels, Batteries & Clean Energy Storage, Carbon, Circular Economy, City Planning & Urban Development, Climate Change, Cool Tech, CPS Energy, Doing Something, Earthen Construction, Economic Development, Electric Vehicles, Energy Efficiency, Energy Policy, Energy Storage, Environmental Protection Policy & Regulation, Fianance & Fundraising, Food Security, Fossil Fuels, Garbage & Waste Disposal, Investing & Finance, Job Creation, Living Wage, Microgrids, Net Zero Buiilding, New Tech, Opportunity Cost & Losses, Permaculture, Pollution, Renewable Energy, Resilience, Retrofits, Smart Grid/Networked Grid, Smart Growth, Solar Energy, Sustainability, Total Cost of Energy, Transportaton, Utilities, Water, Wildlife | Leave a reply

In the Deepest Ocean Trenches, Animals Eat Plastic

SustainableSA.com Posted on March 2, 2019 by stlaneMarch 2, 2019

Alan Jamieson remembers seeing it for the first time: a small, black fiber floating in a tube of liquid. It resembled a hair, but when Jamieson examined it under a microscope, he realized that the fiber was clearly synthetic—a piece … Continue reading →

Posted in Circular Economy, Environmental Protection Policy & Regulation, Food Security, Fossil Fuels, Garbage & Waste Disposal, Plastic Pollution, Pollution, Sustainability, Total Cost of Energy, Water, Wildlife | Leave a reply

Larry Fink, Tucker Carlson, David Brooks And The Call For A Capitalist Reformation

SustainableSA.com Posted on January 27, 2019 by stlaneMay 27, 2019

A Capitalist System for the Future The perverse incentives inherent in a largely unconstrained capitalist system still exist. These incentives drive behaviors that increase inequality, reduce social mobility, devalue communities, deplete soils, acidify oceans, destroy biodiversity, trigger mass migrations and … Continue reading →

Posted in Alternative Fuels, Carbon, Circular Economy, Climate Change, Doing Something, Economic Development, Environmental Protection Policy & Regulation, Fianance & Fundraising, Fossil Fuels, Investing & Finance, Job Creation, Living Wage, Opportunity Cost & Losses, Renewable Energy, Resilience, Security, Smart Growth, Sustainability | Leave a reply

San Antonio’s Compost Queens taking food out of landfills to replenish the land – ExpressNews.com

SustainableSA.com Posted on October 22, 2018 by stlaneOctober 22, 2018

A small San Antonio family business is trying to combat the dangers of decaying banana peels and the gaseous gore of yesterday’s lunch scraps. Betsy Gruy and daughter Kate Gruy Jaceldo started Compost Queens to keep food waste out of … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, Biomimicry, Carbon, Circular Economy, Climate Change, Doing Something, Fertilizers, Food, Farms & Gardens, Garbage & Waste Disposal, Job Creation, Permaculture, Resilience, Smart Growth | Leave a reply

Pocacito (Post-Carbon Cities of Tomorrow) in San Antonio

SustainableSA.com Posted on October 1, 2018 by stlaneOctober 1, 2018

From Deleration.news: "Because much of the official discussion and implementation of the circular economy has taken place from the top down, on the level of governments and industries, we were most interested to hear about local, bottom-up, and community-driven efforts … Continue reading →

Posted in Circular Economy, City Planning & Urban Development, Doing Something, Economic Development, Energy Policy, Environmental Protection Policy & Regulation, Job Creation, Opportunity Cost & Losses, Permaculture, Smart Growth, Sustainability, Total Cost of Energy, Uncategorized | Leave a reply

Mushrooms have the power to eat plastic say scientists

SustainableSA.com Posted on September 26, 2018 by stlaneMarch 26, 2019

Fungi can be used to break down waste plastic and create sustainable building materials, according to scientists from Kew Gardens in London. The State of the World’s Fungi 2018 report – the first of its kind – highlights the aspergillus … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, Alternative Fuels, Biomimicry, Building, Circular Economy, Cool Tech, Doing Something, Environmental Protection Policy & Regulation, Food, Food Pharmacy, Food, Farms & Gardens, Fossil Fuels, Permaculture, Plastic Pollution, Pollution, Reduce Reuse & Recycle, Resilience, Smart Growth, Sustainability, Water | Leave a reply

Designer Talks About Eco Positive Environmental Impact

SustainableSA.com Posted on December 2, 2017 by stlaneApril 9, 2019

Elegant design and engineering goes beyond being sustainable to being eco positive. New vocabulary, additional data collection and working with scientists is needed to most effectively stimulate and manage a circular economy, making the means by which we live to … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Biomimicry, Circular Economy, City Planning & Urban Development, Climate Change, Environmental Protection Policy & Regulation, Export Economy, Garbage & Waste Disposal, Job Creation, Opportunity Cost & Losses, Permaculture, Pollution, Resilience, Smart Growth, Sustainability, Sustainability Metrics, Transportaton, Water, Wildlife | 2 Replies

Polyface Farms – The Future of Farming is Holistic

SustainableSA.com Posted on November 26, 2017 by stlaneFebruary 28, 2020

Polyface Farms – How our food is farmed is what matters most, as in biomimicry, study ecosystems and mimic ecosystems, rather than just blaming meat eaters. Animals can be good for the land and have an ecopostive affect. Regenerative farming … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, Biomimicry, Carbon, Circular Economy, Climate Change, Doing Something, Economic Development, Environmental Protection Policy & Regulation, Food, Food Security, Food, Farms & Gardens, Job Creation, Opportunity Cost & Losses, Permaculture, Resilience, Security, Smart Growth, Sustainability, Uncategorized, Water, Wildlife | Leave a reply

San Antonio’s Potential Use of Cement Manufacturing Biomimicry Tech

SustainableSA.com Posted on June 21, 2017 by stlaneJune 21, 2017

With four major cement manufacturers in the area, is San Antonio ripe for using and developing carbon capture biomimicry tech to ward-off more than $1 billion in EPA non-attainment air quality and health costs? At least until these cement-making bacteria can … Continue reading →

Posted in Biomimicry, Building, Carbon, Circular Economy, City Planning & Urban Development, Commercial Building, Cool Tech, Doing Something, Environmental Protection Policy & Regulation, Net Zero Buiilding, Pollution, Resilience, Sustainability | Leave a reply

The Cult of Perma – Food and Farm Discussion Lab

SustainableSA.com Posted on May 1, 2017 by stlaneMay 1, 2017

Editor’s Note: I stumbled across this piece by Graham some time in 2013, not long after it was published, and it set off more than one lightbulb moment for me. Up to that time I’d considered permaculture an intriguing subculture. … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, Biomimicry, Circular Economy, Doing Something, Fertilizers, Food, Food Pharmacy, Food Security, Food, Farms & Gardens, Permaculture, Pollution, Resilience, Smart Growth, Sustainability, Sustainability Metrics, Water, Wildlife | Leave a reply

What is the Social Responsibility of Business?

SustainableSA.com Posted on February 28, 2017 by stlaneFebruary 28, 2017

What is the Social Responsibility of Business?Ever since Milton Friedman famously proclaimed “The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits” (NYTimes 1970), pundits have pondered whether his purist interpretation was really the only way.Profit is certainly a lot … Continue reading →

Posted in Circular Economy, Doing Something, Economic Development, Energy Policy, Environmental Protection Policy & Regulation, Investing & Finance, Job Creation, Opportunity Cost & Losses, Resilience, Security, Smart Growth, Sustainability | Leave a reply

Straight outta Lubbock: Scientist and TV station aim at ‘myths’ with new videos

SustainableSA.com Posted on October 4, 2016 by stlaneOctober 4, 2016

When the Canadian atmospheric scientist Katharine Hayhoe moved to Lubbock 11 years ago to take a faculty position at Texas Tech University, she was well known and regarded in the field of climate-change research, but not too far beyond it. … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, Alternative Fuels, Carbon, Circular Economy, Climate Change, Doing Something, Environmental Protection Policy & Regulation, Fossil Fuels, Humor, Job Creation, Permaculture, Pollution, Renewable Energy, Resilience, Security, Smart Growth, Solar Energy, Sustainability | Leave a reply

Janine Benyus: What Can Today’s Designers Learn From Nature?

SustainableSA.com Posted on May 22, 2016 by stlaneMay 22, 2016

Science writer Janine Benyus believes innovators should look to nature when solving a design problem. She says the natural world is full of ideas for making things waterproof, solar-powered and more. Source: Janine Benyus: What Can Today's Designers Learn From … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, Alternative Fuels, Batteries & Clean Energy Storage, Biomimicry, Building, Circular Economy, City Planning & Urban Development, Climate Change, Cool Tech, Doing Something, Economic Development, Energy Efficiency, Environmental Protection Policy & Regulation, Food, Food Security, Food, Farms & Gardens, Garbage & Waste Disposal, Job Creation, Net Zero Buiilding, Permaculture, Pollution, Renewable Energy, Resilience, Retrofits | Leave a reply

The Seas Will Save Us: How an Army of Ocean Farmers are Starting an Economic Revolution — invironment — Medium

SustainableSA.com Posted on May 1, 2016 by stlaneMay 1, 2016

I’m a fisherman who dropped out of high school in 1986 at the age of 14. Over my lifetime, I’ve spent many nights in jail. I’m an epileptic. I’m asthmatic. I don’t even know how to swim. This is my … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, Alternative Fuels, Biomimicry, Circular Economy, Climate Change, Cool Tech, Doing Something, Economic Development, Environmental Protection Policy & Regulation, Food, Food Security, Fossil Fuels, Job Creation, New Tech, Opportunity Cost & Losses, Permaculture, Resilience, Sustainability, Water, Wildlife

France to force big supermarkets to give unsold food to charities | World news | The Guardian

SustainableSA.com Posted on June 16, 2015 by stlaneJune 16, 2015

French supermarkets will be banned from throwing away or destroying unsold food and must instead donate it to charities or for animal feed, under a law set to crack down on food waste.The French national assembly voted unanimously to pass … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, Circular Economy, Doing Something, Economic Development, Environmental Protection Policy & Regulation, Food, Food Security, Garbage & Waste Disposal, Job Creation, Opportunity Cost & Losses, Permaculture, Pollution, Resilience, Smart Growth, Sustainability, Water | Leave a reply

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