Across the U.S. and worldwide, energy demand is soaring as data centers work to support the wide and growing use of artificial intelligence. These large facilities are filled with powerful computers, called servers, that run complex algorithms to help AI systems learn from vast amounts of data. Continue reading
My first travel experience with Frontier Airlines gave me more than a cheap fare. I received a surprising environmental education.
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Having no experience with budget airlines, I decided to give Frontier a try after attending a funeral. Its fare was less than half that of competing airlines. But it took a while to get on board so to say. Continue reading
NOTE: As I write this on a July weekend in Portland OR… here’s today’s headline in the New York Times: “Pacific Northwest Faces Critical Fire Risk as Wildfires Burn”. About 1.7 million people are under fire danger warnings on Sunday as a heat wave continues to bake the region and several large blazes burn in Oregon. Continue reading
Any time we take the initiative to create sustainability, we are intervening in a system. Systems are messy and resist being changed. Think capitalism (aka greed), or our weather (e.g., Climate Change), or local government (government of any size), or my daily routine (how dare you mess with that). What hubris, thinking that we as individuals can change these systems! Continue reading
All stories are emotional. Won’t you agree? The very reason people respond to them is that it “touches the heart” so to speak or “strikes a chord”. To me, this is the most basic reason why using stories remains a powerful tool when we teach, train, or mentor. In fact, these are the critical keys to why stories work. Continue reading