(What he (Gil) said! – promoted by eli_beckerman)

In less than 2 minutes, Gil Friend, CEO of Natural Logic, Inc and author of The Truth about Green Business, makes a clear business case against coal:

http://www.youtube.com/v/Eqifc…

Another two minutes from Gil on green business:

http://vimeo.com/22278163

This video is part of the Sustainability in 7 series from Designers Accord

http://www.core77.com/blog/sus…

This is a very good primer on the principles of sustainable design from many of the best thinkers and practitioners in the field.

To look at coal from another perspective, I saw David Rutledge from Caltech speak at MIT May 4, 2011.  He believes that the IPCC has overestimated coal and oil reserves and that more realistic projections produce significantly lower greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere.  He calculates that peak CO2 will happen around 2065 at around 446 ppm, which will also be near the exhaustion level for fossil fuels, and thus no climate change policy is actually necessary.

However, according to the Fourth IPPC report, we need to be at 445-495 CO2 equivalent (carbon equivalent is a measure for all the anthropogenic greenhouse gases) for stabilization under a 2ºC rise.   Rutledge has some interesting ideas about the possibility of peak coal but I sorta kinda think that he doesn’t quite understand climate change.  He is an electrical engineer by training.

You can take a look at his PowerPoint and article at

http://rutledge.caltech.edu/

He didn’t mention that the IEA’s 2010 World Energy Outlook announced that Peak Oil happened in 2006:

Crude oil output reaches an undulating plateau of around 68-69 mb/d by 2020, but never regains its all time peak of 70 mb/d reached in 2006, while production of natural gas liquids (NGLs) and unconventional oil grows strongly.

Source:  http://www.worldenergyoutlook….

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