Global Warming. The Earth became the newest Waterworld. by SoftPIX_Techie

There is an article by By Christopher Booker which goes something like this.

Simple, effective and pretty accurate. It summarises in 20 minutes what I try to do every day and why. A must see.

Am I a blind Ron Paul support all the way down? No. I do recognise that some of his positions aren't right, but they represent the minor problems. If Ron Paul did not win, I would like Dennis Kucinich to win. His positions strongly differ from Paul's ones, such as healthcare and education. However, they both agree on the substance and on the most important things, they have the same goals with different means to achieve them.

Now now... can somebody tell why solar energy did not become ubiquitous in the World? The answer is very simple, it's expensive. Typically a house needs 3KW per hour of energy, and to achieve that with solar panels you would spend about $40,000 $34,000. Even with the 55% incentive that the Italian government gives you it's nearly impossible to consider it affordable for an average family. The rest of the world offers has slightly similar conditions, some a bit better and some other a bit worse.

The bottom line is: Solar power is way too expensive to be used at a large scale. A typical installation will need circa 20 12 years to recover the cost and start saving money. That of course does not take into account the whole picture, in fact the entropy of the system dramatically decreases, having no oil, no coal, no nuclear waste, no CO2 emissions and so on you are actually living sustainably as far as the environment is concerned.

Today is the Blog Action Day. People are talking and doing something, so here I am, I stand before you to talk about an issue that has been of great concern to me: Zero Waste.

Since it's difficult to be exhaustive in a mere blog post I will focus on a single issue that embraces lots of others.

The Zero Waste Alliance is a non-profit partnership of universities, government, business and other organizations working to develop, promote and apply Zero Waste strategies.

Our Mission is to support organizations in the creation of a more sustainable future.

Our Objective is to provide improved profitability, competitiveness and environmental performance through the development and implementation of practices that lead to the reduction and elimination of waste and toxics.

"Zero Waste cuts costs, improves competitiveness and improves environmental performance."

The point is that a society should not have waste. If it's not reusable, recyclable or you cannot compost it, you should not produce it. Period. More information is about to come, I'm in a bit of a hurry right now, I just want to keep my promise and give my contribution. Here it goes. Print them out, spread the word. Recycle. ^_^