I haven’t been posting lately because we’re doing a redesign of the blog and moving it to a WordPress template on my company’s servers.
I’m also tightening my focus to water-related issues. I’ve always been interested in how climate change is affecting us on a personal level, right now, and water is one of the very early indicator issues. It is related intimately with weather issues, another subject I find fascinating. One of the reasons I’m choosing water issues stems from one simple fact: In China only one in 500 people has free access to safe drinking water.

Water will become the most valuable commodity on the planet, surpassing oil, in the next few years. In many places it already is. The oil wars of the second decade of this century will probably be eclipsed by water wars in the next decade, particularly if we don’t take worldwide action right now. It is my hope these conflicts are economic rather than violent as economic conflicts create business opportunities, which in turn, create incentives to resolve the issue (driven by profit motives). Violent wars also present opportunity but this opportunity only results in the creation of weapons which have no positive economic effect and death of innocents. This is a path we cannot allow humanity to go down.
Watch for our new look in the very near future and please contribute your views and stories.

Thanks,
Martin Edic

This trailer is a compelling brief look at a film that may eclipse An Inconvenient Truth in relevance right now. I am not a celebrity cause fan but by all reviews de Caprio has made a very important film that is frightening, provocative and relentlessly positive in its belief that we can change the world for the better. I can’t wait to see it.

I was watching the local weather report yesterday when they put up one of those national temperature maps. I was struck by the fact that a very large area of the southeast had 100’s plastered over it’s bright orange shading. This caught my attention because there was what looked like a massive storm in the Gulf of Mexico that they did not mention.
Well, it turns out that that storm is now Tropical Storm Erin which will hit the Texas coast in the next 12 hours. This will be followed by Dean, a Tropical Storm in the eastern Caribbean that is projected to be a Cat 3 hurricane by the weekend, before it hits the extremely warm waters of the Gulf. This may be the first serious hurricane weekend of the season.
The first indicator will be gas and oil commodity prices- traders tend to watch these weather reports like hawks as these storms are dead aimed at refineries and oil platforms.
I’m glad I’m not living in the steamy south these days!

In the last two days:

Climate changing Chesapeake Bay
French Alps Ski Resorts closes after 40 years
Indian Glaciers retreat- source of water for hundreds of millions
500 page study funded by energy industry sees 50% increase in energy use by 2032, calls for huge efficiency gains