by David Steven Jacoby | Jun 11, 2015 | Uncategorized
BSI has committed to reduce its carbon footprint per revenue dollar for fiscal year 2015 by 63%. This follows a 21% reduction in absolute carbon emission during 2014. As a consulting firm we do not emit any carbon through manufacturing or conversion itself, which...
by David Steven Jacoby | Jun 11, 2015 | Power
Terrafugia’s production of the first U.S. Federal approved flying car, the Transition, suggests that we have taken a huge step closer to accomplishing a Sci-Fi like story. However, the recent global demonstrations on environment served to remind us that the key...
by David Steven Jacoby | Jun 11, 2015 | Gas
The spotlight on recent events in the Middle East, while understandably focused on ISIS and the coalition battling it, has overshadowed the potential emergence of a Kurdish state, which would dramatically change the energy landscape in Iraq, Turkey, and, by extension,...
by David Steven Jacoby | Jun 11, 2015 | Gas
In their book “Ecological Economics” Daly and Farley wrote: “We almost certainly will never exhaust fossil fuel stocks in physical terms, because there will always remain some stocks that are too energy-intensive or too expensive to recover.” Technological advances...
by David Steven Jacoby | Jun 11, 2015 | Tenders
At first glance Liberia doesn’t seem as corrupt as its West African neighbors – it received 41 out of 100 on Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index (higher is better; 90 was the best score and 8 was the worst). Many African countries with newfound...