Jay Kimball
- Location
- Orcas Island, Washington,
- Birthday
- January 19
- Company
- 8020 Vision
- Bio
- Jay is founder of 8020 Vision, and speaks publicly on sustainability for business and government.
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Favorite quote: "We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past." – Winston Churchill
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Jay lives on Orcas Island in the Pacific Northwest, and loves to sail, restore old wood boats, and garden.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Extreme Rain
September 11, 2010 11:48AM - Top Business Leaders Deliver
Clean Energy Plan
September 10, 2010 12:48PM - German Military Study Warns of
Potential Energy Crisis
September 03, 2010 11:27AM - Farming Wind Versus Farming
Corn for Energy
September 03, 2010 01:22AM - Warmer Temperatures in China
to Reduce Crop Yields
September 02, 2010 03:35PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “PV numbers came from a
review of ERoEI studies and
Ron
Swenson in his
presentatio…”
September 04, 2010 11:19AM - “There are a number of
recent sources. Check
out
http://www.uvm.edu/giee/pu
blicati…”
September 04, 2010 12:43AM - “Thanks
Joan.
You are so
right. I am working on a post
that talks about
food
becomi…”
August 27, 2010 10:26AM - “Bobby, In a few words,
you have provided a very
cogent cause
and effect
statement…”
February 27, 2009 03:23PM - “There is the GPI, which
sounds like what you are
describing.
Here is more
infor…”
February 26, 2009 04:45AM
Jay Kimball's Links
- Company
- 8020 Vision
- The Economy
- Green GDP
- Historic Trends
- GDP Ouch!
- Women & Economy
- Jon Stewart: Serious Comedian
Extreme Rain
Top Business Leaders Deliver Clean Energy Plan
German Military Study Warns of Potential Energy Crisis
Keywords: peak oil, Der Spiegel, German military study, energy crisis
Though governments have for decades  have pondered the looming peak in oil production, we rarely get a glimpse into their uncut analysis.
A study by a German military think tank has analyzed how “peak oil” might change… Read full post »
Farming Wind Versus Farming Corn for Energy
keywords: wind power, wind turbines, corn ethanol, ERoEI
Farmers can plant crops right to the base of wind turbines (photo: Warren Gretzl, NREL)
If a farmer has 1,000 acres of land, and he planted it with corn for making ethanol and erected wind turbines for generating… Read full post »
Warmer Temperatures in China to Reduce Crop Yields
Shilong Piao of the Center of Climate Research at Beijing University has published a paper in Nature, reported on by Reuters, that says:
With the climate set to get warmer from greenhouse gases, Chinese scientists predicted on Thursday that freshwater for agriculture will shrink further in China, re
… Read full post »
Feebates
Keywords: Feebate, Art Rosenfeld, RMI, reducing automobile CO2 emissions, reducing oil addiction
Feebates offer a compelling approach to curbing automobile fuel consumption and CO2 emissions. The concept was pioneered in the 1970s by Jonathan Koomey and Art Rosenfeld (Lawrence Berkeley National Labor… Read full post »
Bjørn Lomborg Changes His Mind About Climate Change
Keywords: Bjørn Lomborg, skeptical environmentalist, climate change, Howard Friel, The Lomborg Deception, carbon tax
Bjørn Lomborg, infamous “skeptical environmentalist,” has changed his mind about climate change. According to an article in The Guardian:
The world’s most high-pro
… Read full post »
Recommended Reading: The Coming Famine
If you are a regular reader of 8020vision.com, you know that we track several core issues that we believe will have profound impact on us all – rich and poor, individuals, communities, business, and government. They are population, energy, water, food, climate change and healthcare. In a s… Read full post »
Bill Gates on Climate Change and Renewable Energy
Many newspapers and blogs are reporting on the Technology Review interview with Bill Gates (highlights below). Though that interview contains some good information, Gates' presentation at TED was the stake in the ground that set the stage for this Technology Review interview. At TED, Gates called for… Read full post »
Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
Washington Post reporter, documentary film correspondent and author T.R. Reid had a brief piece in Newsweek this week about Japan’s healthcare system. The article expands on an earlier interview Reid did on National Public Radio (NPR) – Japanese Pay Less for More Health Care –… Read full post »
Reality Check!
The stock market has had a good week. The financial news talking heads are calling this a bottom, with folks like Cramer pronouncing "The depression is over."
Stock brokers are calling me up telling me now is the time to get back in the market. Back to business as usual.
… Read full post »Why does it take a court jester to wake us up to the obvious?
When Tina Fey parodied Sarah Palin, she gave us permission to say "There is no there there." Last night, Jon Stewart went one-on-one with Jim Cramer from CNBC and forever changed our view of financial reporting.
For too… Read full post »
How women can rebuild the economy
Doing the right thing can be profitable!
A new report on how women can transform and rebuild the economy was just released by Ernst & Young at the World Economic Forum. Key findings of the report include:
- Closing the gap between male and female employment rates would have huge
The Commerce Department just released revised numbers for Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the 4th quarter of 2008. They had previously estimated that GDP fell 3.8%. They have now revised that number to 6.2% (seasonally adjusted, annualized). It was the worst decline in GDP sin… Read full post »
Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
"I don't remember any time, maybe even in the Great Depression, when things went down quite so fast, quite so uniformly around the world" -- Paul Volcker (2/20/09)
"The economy went into freefall and is still falling and we don’t know where the bottom will be until we get… Read full post »My wife and I live on an island in the Pacific Northwest. We are in a county that has the lowest working wages in the state. As you can imagine, there is a lot of belt tightening going on as the economy craters.
In a future blog post I'll talk… Read full post »
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