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Grass is Not So Green: Marijuana Has a Huge Carbon Footprint

By Tracey de Morsella on April 15, 2011 3 Comments Bay Citizen, California, Cannabis production, carbon footprint, CO2 emissions, criminalization, data centers, diesel fuel, energy demand, Energy Up in Smoke: The Carbon Footprint of Indoor Cannabis, environmental impact, Evan Mills, GHG, grass, green, greenhouse gas, greenhouse gas emissions, high-intensity lights, Indoor Cannabis, indoor cannabis production, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, LED lighting, Marijuana, medical marijuana, off-grid power production, pesticides, pot, Tracey de Morsella, U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, U.S. Department of Energy

indoor marijuana weed cannibisThe yearly greenhouse-gas pollution of the $40 billion per year marijuana industry is responsible for about 3% of all electricity use or 8% of household use. Indoor growers use high-intensity lights that are 500 times more powerful that a standard reading lamp. They also use several other high energy industrial practices. The closest comparison for these massive, industrial-style grow facilities are data centers, which consume about two percent of the nation’s electric power.

Green Marketing: Motivating Mainstream Consumers to Make Sustainable Choices

By Sofia_Ribeiro on June 14, 2010 3 Comments additives, biodegradable, brand, chemical waste, chemicals, Clorox, efficacy, green communications, green consumer, Green Marketing, green products, Green Works, Kiwano Marketing.Eco Pulse 2010, natural, natural ingredients, organic, packaging, pesticides, preservatives, recycling, renewable energy, Shelton Group, sofia ribeiro, Sun Chips, Sustainable '10 Conference, Sustainable Brands, sustainable packaging, sustainable product life cycle, Suzanne Shelton, transparency, transparent

Today I attended a great session at Sustainable Brands conference by Suzanne Shelton, President and CEO of theShelton Group. Mainstream consumers are complicated. They know just enough buzz words to make you think they know more than they do, and most don’t actually go green to save the planet. How do mainstream consumers ACTUALLY make decisions about which green products to buy?

Reining in the Agri-Biz Juggernaut

By Jerry_Toman on July 14, 2009 Comments Off on Reining in the Agri-Biz Juggernaut ADM, Agri-Biz, beef, beef industry, bio-fuels, carbon footprint, Cargill, CHP, Combined Heat and Power, dead-zones, ethanol, fertilizer, genetically modified food, global warming, greenhouse gases, Gulf of Mexico, horticulture, intellectual rights, Jerry J. Toman, Monsanto, permaculture, pesticides, power rights, ScM, toxic run-off, urban areas, water rights

This the third article in the series The Two-Headed Dragon ~ Energy/Water/Food Scarcity and Climate Change. Top Ten Policies that Feed it, and Two New Technologies that Could Enable us to Slay It and Save the Planet focuses on the issue of big agribusiness; how it is is dominated by a very few very large corporations; the big problems this dominance is creating for farmers and the environment and some things we can do to restore our agricultural system to one more in tune with nature and that serves the interests of most citizens.