by Daniel Brouse and Sidd Mukherjee Q: Is hemp a good solution for carbon sequestration (carbon sinks) and/or beneficial to the environment? A: No, not really. In general, hemp only acts as a carbon sink while it is growing and left unharvested. The harvesting usually negates any net-negative carbon sink. (ie more CO2 is released […]
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The Hemp Myth, Carbon Sinks and the Environment
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Tagged carbon emissions, carbon sequestration, carbon sink, climate change, CO2, hemp, ozone, trees
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Real Estate, Climate Change, Health and Wellness
Where you live is greatly impacted by climate change. Pollution that causes global warming impacts your health and well-being. Sea level rise and extreme weather events impact the value of your real estate, insurance and your financial health. Climate Change and Health Death By Ozone Ozone primarily affects the respiratory and immune systems. The damage […]
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Tagged climage change, real estate, risk, value
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Chesapeake Bay and Sea Level Rise
The Capital Gazette reports: Fox Island has been washed away by sea level rise, forcing end of Chesapeake Bay education program “After 40 years there offering magical teaching moments, environmental educators are saying goodbye to Fox Island as it sinks into the Chesapeake Bay. Foundation educators say sea level rise and erosion are destroying the […]
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Tagged climate change, islands, rising sea level
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Volumetric or Cubical Expansion Coefficients of Water?
I asked: I’ve been trying to consider the Volumetric or Cubical Expansion Coefficients of Liquids and how it relates to water and climate change It’s hard to wrap my head around… especially when you add melting sea ice to the equation What do you think? Will warmer water increase sea level rise even greater… the […]
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Tagged climate change, melting ice, rising sea level, sea level rise
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Do You Need Flood Insurance?
by Daniel Brouse and Sidd Mukherjee There’s a thing about climate change and a rising sea level that took me a while to grasp… a lot of the water isn’t actually in the sea. As more water accumulates in the sea and the temperature rises, more energy is also being stored in the sea. Now, […]
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Tagged climate change, flood in, real estate, rising sea level, sea level, sea level rise
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Climate Change: Suspension Of Belief
by Daniel Brouse In the 1990’s, a team of real estate professionals, property management specialists, and climate change scientists starting working on a plan to mitigate the effects of global warming on residential real estate. There are two major problems with developing a plan: 1) Unintended Consequences The impact of climate change is wide reaching […]
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Tagged climate change, flood insurance, property values, real estate, sea level rise
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The Collapse Of Nature
Worldwide insect populations are in decline by as much as 80%. Insects are in a downward spiral threatening a “catastrophic collapse of nature’s ecosystems”, as reported by a global scientific review. “Unless we change our ways of producing food, insects as a whole will go down the path of extinction in a few decades. The […]
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Turn out the lights… the fossil fuel party’s over.
October 15, 2018: To: Sidd RE: Energy and Climate Change I’ve been thinking about a famous Sidd quote… and wonder if it still holds true? Back in the day (2001), you recommended one of the best things to do was to turn off the lights! “Turn out the lights… the fossil fuel party’s over.” http://membrane.com/oil/ […]
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Tagged climate change, insulation, LED, lights, oil, trees
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Robo Call Scams and Spoofs
Sidd said: Briefly, the idea is this: someone calls you up spoofs the callerid on your phone so that your phone displays bank phone number then they reel of a bunch of information about you …. but they then ask for security code on card, PIN, mothers maiden name and it’s game over when you […]
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Avoiding Racial Bias
Sidd said: This has relevance to the unified real estate database we are talking about and to a lot of other things. Quite high level, but it illustrates why, for example, chicago was sending black people to jail alla time, but not white folk. https://boingboing.net/2016/05/24/algorithmic-risk-assessment-h.html here is a some detail with programming on how to […]