
Ceres has done it again. With the release of “Water & Climate Risks Facing U.S. Corn Production: How Companies & Investors Can Cultivate Sustainability” the team of Boston braniacs moved the...
Category: All, Uncategorized Tags: Agriculture, Brooke Barton, Ceres, corn, Fertilizer, Gulf of Mexico, Irrigation, water risk
Last weekend I had the great fun of attending a reunion of sorts for those of us who shared Dr. Janis Antonovics as a professor, or who passed through his boisterous...
Category: All, Uncategorized Tags: Annamox, Antonovics, Nitrogen cycle, population genetics, sewage treatment
Life can be overwhelming, can’t it? There are times when the problems seem insurmountable, when you just don’t know how to go on. Even for me, blessed with unimaginable good fortune,...
Category: All, Uncategorized Tags: Ceres, Charting New Waters, Environmental Finance, Water Infrastructure, Water rates
Water is in an odd quandary relative to financial matters. On the one hand, money is the quickest translator for people and is the way they can most easily understand the...
Category: All, Uncategorized Tags: Ceres, Charting New Waters, Environmental Finance, Water Infrastructure, Water rates
As usual, Ben Franklin had it largely right with his sage advice: “Waste not, want not.” Take phosphorus, for instance. It’s a ubiquitous and much-needed mineral. Along with carbon, hydrogen, oxygen...
Category: All, Uncategorized Tags: Fertilizer, Nutrient roadmap, Ostara, Phosphorus, Struvite, Wastewater treatment, Water pollution
Where were you when you first heard about Freedom Industry’s contamination of the Elk River and the 300,000 people who depend on it for daily water? I remember it well: I...
Category: All, Uncategorized Tags: Charleson WV, Chemical Spill, Clean water, Duke Energy, Elk River, Enbridge, Freedom Industries, Kalamazoo, Rain Barrels, West Virginia
If you care enough about water to read this blog, you need to read David Sedlak’s new book, Water 4.0. When David told me about his undertaking, I foolishly type-cast him...
Category: All, Uncategorized Tags: David Sedlak, ReNUWIt, sewage treatment, Water Infrastructure
My guess is that you’re probably pretty comfortable with the flush toilet. Having a clean, operational toilet and the privacy that comes with it is something you probably take for granted,...
Category: All, Uncategorized Tags: Cape Cod, Decentralized Utilities, New Alchemy Institute, sanitation, Toilets, Urine, Urine-Diversion, Water
Who says sustainability is bad for the bottom line? It was Wisconsin’s own Sen. Gaylord Nelson, most famously known as the founder of Earth Day, who correctly stated, “The economy is...
Category: All, Uncategorized Tags: Craft Brewing, Gaylord Nelson, NRDC, Old Bust Head Brewing Co., Sustainability, Vint Hill, Water
People sometimes ask me how we select our meeting topics. There isn’t any particular formula to how we do our work, but I like to tell people that we try to...
Category: All, Uncategorized Tags: Climate Change, Energy Road Map, Resilience, Utilities, Water and Energy, WEF, Wingspread
Broadview Collaborative, Inc.