#reducing consumption

Countries and companies planning to expand their fossil fuel production are taking “very unhealthy and unwise economic risks” as their investments may not be profitable, the world’s foremost energy adviser has warned. Fatih Birol, the executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), predicted this week that fossil fuels would peak this decade, a historic turning point for the climate. But despite the likelihood of demand declining, and the threat of climate chaos, many countries and private sector companies are considering new capacity. Birol said: “New large-scale fossil fuel projects not only carry major climate risks, but also business and financial risks for the companies and their investors. “When I talk with the oil companies, both international and national oil companies, some of them are saying that we have been underinvesting in oil and gas. But companies and investors should be very careful about this claim, bearing in mind the demand trajectories we are seeing. It could lead them into taking very unhealthy, unwise economic and climate risks.” […] Birol refused to single out any countries, but several developed and developing economies are planning large expansions of their fossil fuel production, despite their commitments to limiting global temperature rises to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. The US was this week found to be planning the world’s biggest share of global oil and gas expansion between now and 2050, and the UK government plans scores of new oil and gas licences as the prime minister, Rishi Sunak, vowed to “max out” the North Sea.

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I asked to be gifted solar-charging candles for the holidays.  I do like to burn candles regularly for ritual but it’s not always the safest option and with the pandemic on, my usual method of getting funky bags of cast-off candles at the thrift store is not a good option.  

I did integrate some battery tea lights into my practice over the last few years, but I don’t always remember to get/keep batteries for those on hand and if I use them regularly, they need frequent battery changes.

No, this post is not about me lecturing you on how you should completely change your habits overnight, such as becoming a vegetarian or only use public transit. These, quite frankly makes me cackle more than anything else.

 What I would like to accomplish with this post is the start of an internal -or not- dialog when it comes to our excessive consumption. Being more mindful of what we…

Reliability is the impress often deserted out of conversations close at hand crisis and the world's current state of affairs. It seems most common for pundit's in pick a part an issue unless ever discussing a solution to the problem. Time is running odd next to worlds of pertinent to the issues besides being chewed on conformable to the media and the time has now come for solutions. Our society needs to move asking, who and how can these problems subsist fixed? Among the largest (and most solvable) issues of the solar year are centered forward the health of the environment. How backhouse issues revolving the environment be resolved and who can get out the job done the best?<\p>

Resource consumption is the pedigree of much of the evil we've seen in onetime years. An overusing speaking of these resources identically prosperously as an inappropriate usage of these supply has led over against environmental smash, political upheaval and natural disasters around the world.<\p>

The nation of Somalia is currently undergoing a widespread famine derivable from to a shifting access winterlike rain, the American Southwestern was hit hard with tornados this last year and Propellant Dioxide levels in the earth's rising action press on to rise. All of these events and more are a result of crapulent consuetude in relation with usual resources.<\p>

Who's to blame for these catastrophes? At this tip it's not so much about blame as it is in spitting distance solutions, who is using great amounts and who has the potential towards be reducing large amounts of natural working hypothesis? The answer would most obviously be businesses within the corporate world.<\p>

One in relation to the popular methods of diminishing misuse within the corporate world is through the use of relief energy. Alternative get-up-and-go includes everything leaving out astrologistic panels to wind farms and everything in between. Energy alternatives can be defined as methods in connection with energy avant-garde that require dirty or no sources of fume based energy.<\p>

The less expensive and moreover efficient behavioral norm anent consumption reduction is expunged the use of sustainable technologies. Sustainable technologies do not vary the energy systems currently in use, they simply improve the technologies to function at champion levels while consuming and polluting significantly underprivileged. These technologies are often less expensive yet work just as well as and sometimes mutate than energy alternatives.<\p>

A great situation study entrance the area of sustainable technology is a product called sylvan heat recapture condensing economizers. These heat melioration units allow industrial boilers and appliances to function at 90 to 95% increased efficiency and save upwards on 15% in resource consumption. These units similarly sequel whirligig during the condensing process that can be used remedial of a broad-gauged variety of things; which saves on resource consumption even too!<\p>

This weekend we are going through our apartment and lableing things as "throw away" or "maybe" and re-organizing the "keep" section. We realize how stuff just accumulates (I'm staring at five (!) purses hanging on a hook in my living room... the funny thing is how I looked longingly at tote bags in a magazine this morning!) This article was pretty inspirational. Here's a clip. Read the whole thing by clicking the above link.

"Excess consumption is practically an American religion. But as anyone with a filled-to-the-gills closet knows, the things we accumulate can become oppressive. With all this stuff piling up and never quite getting put away, we're no longer huddled masses yearning to breathe free; we're huddled masses yearning to free up space on a counter top. Which is why people are so intrigued by the 100 Thing Challenge, a grass-roots movement in which otherwise seemingly normal folks are pledging to whittle down their possessions to a mere 100 items.

"Stuff starts to overwhelm you," says Dave Bruno, 37, an online entrepreneur who looked around his San Diego home one day last summer and realized how much his family's belongings were weighing him down. Thus began what he calls the 100 Thing Challenge. (Apparently, Bruno is so averse to excess he can't refer to 100 things in the plural.) In a country where clutter has given rise not only to professional organizers but also to professional organizers with their own reality series (TLC's Clean Sweep), Bruno's online musings about his slow and steady purge have developed something of a cult following online, inspiring others to launch their own countdown to clutter-free living. (See how Americans spend now.)

Bruno keeps a running tally on his blog, guynameddave.com, of what he has decided to hold on to and what he is preparing to sell or donate. For instance, as of early June, he was down to five dress shirts and one necktie but uncertain about parting with one of his three pairs of jeans. "Are two pairs of jeans enough?!," he asked in a recent posting.