September Newsletter

Time is Money, and Money is Time. Curated Content for You.

Gabriel Ruiz
September 07, 2022

News

Key business highlights

1% of people cause 50% of aviation emissions. It has to stop

In 2019 – just before air travel collapsed due to the pandemic – commercial air flight contributed 784.8 million CO2 emissions to global warming, or 2.14% of total emissions.

'Zoe' becomes the world’s first named heat wave

Seville, Spain, recently became the first city in the world to launch a heat wave naming and ranking system. This week's blistering temperatures ranked as a Category 3 — the most severe tier.

Rainwater everywhere on Earth unsafe to drink due to ‘forever chemicals,’ study finds

Rainwater almost everywhere on Earth has unsafe levels of ‘forever chemicals. Per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a large family of human-made chemicals that don’t occur in nature. They are known as ‘forever chemicals’ because they don’t break down in the environment.

Articles

Organizational Culture at BFGO

“Culture eats strategy for breakfast”

This phrase has functioned as a kind of North Star during my career as an entrepreneur. Why do I consider it so important? I firmly believe that you can have the best strategy, but who will be in charge of executing it?

Why Change to Renewable Energy

According to Resource Solutions, electricity generation is the leading cause of air pollution in the United States. Fossil fuels are the main cause of pollution, contributing an estimated over 75 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions and nearly 90 percent of all carbon dioxide emissions.

Case Study

Agrotech, the Environment, and Industry pivoting.

Irrigation is key to agricultural development and keeping our natural resources. Sustainable irrigation gives you stability and productivity and lowers risks in agriculture. Expanding it by 15-25% on current agricultural land would produce 6-8% more of the world's food, feeding up to 840 million more people.