Clean Water

Think clean energy is a big, big deal?  Take a look at clean, drinkable water.  In the US, we foul an incredible volume of potable water every day.  Water that should be saved for drinking, cooking and washing gets flushed, poisoned, etc.

Climate change will only exacerbate the problem by melting glaciers, reducing rain/snow fall, shifting the snowpack melt season earlier in the year and increasing sea levels will inundate freshwater systems and aquifers.

We must reduce demand and change how we handle water by adding more gray water systems to our homes.  Creating drinkable water from sea water and natural and man-made foul water will be vital.

Link above goes to one company that has a compact water treatment facility (looks like it fits in a boxcar) and converts the tailings from gas wells into safe drinking water.  Say what you will about continued fossil fuel exploration, this idea has value.

Cycling Calorie Rates

Here's a table of caloric rates.

Sustainable Wines

Looking to make your wine consumption sustainable?  Try wine from Parducci in Mendocino County, CA.  It's drinkable.  I've had better, but I've had a lot worse.  Cooked a marinara with it the other night and drank it with dinner.  Delicious.

Ironically, I was in Whole Foods looking at their wine section when I came across their "Eco Friendly" offerings.  They had a bottle from France.  Nothing against France, but I had to quiz the wine stocker to find out how it could be "Eco Friendly".  They said it was for the organic aspects of the wine production.  That's all fine and good, but if the wine was shipped on anything burning fossil fuel, BOOM, any sustainable, organic and carbon-neutral product creation just went flying out the window and into our atmosphere.