|
Articles
This is important -if you have data, there is a risk that you will lose it. And that loss may be catastrophic for your business.
I remember very early in my computer using days being told that “she who does not back up shall be sorry” Oh how true and it applies to he as well as she! ......................
I read this stat today. And believe it or not we are now building huge desalination plants so that we can burn fossil fuels in order to desalinate more water to go down the toilet!
And when you save water you also save energy, because water requires enormous amounts of energy to pump around the country and to dispose of......................
Last week I said that employers need clear company policies where you also set up dress codes if needed, smoking guidelines, email, “foreign” software, internet browsing, phone, mobile and texting guidelines …etc so that the ground rules are clear and you have no need to be either heavy handed or exploited
So did we get an example of this on TV this week!........................
Things can change in a minute in life and in business. This is the anniversary of Victoria’s terrible fires and Landline was showing some of the flow on effects on a variety of affected businesses. There are the obvious things but also things you do not easily think of like higher water temperatures in the creeks that no longer had cool water running through shaded forest. This had an ongoing effective of killing trout in fish farms..................
Most of these are nothing to do with the environment or management systems and are breaking my rules about political comment.
• Barnaby Joyce saying that the Government’s insulation scheme was a useless waste of money when it is actually a really sensible way to reduce energy use in houses and save people money as well as helping the environment.
• I am totally tired of hearing about Tony Abbot’s competition bathers. Here is the busy leader of the opposition who still makes time to support his local surf club – one of the truly great Australian Volunteer organisations.
Interestingly I just watched part of the Iron Man competition where the guys wore the same racing swim wear and no one was fussed about them. I used to swim competitively and I simply cannot imagine trying to race with a lot of unnecessary baggy shorts flapping around my legs.
• I am also tired of hearing about “rabble” vs word perfect scripts – what nonsense. I want to be represented by Politicians who think for themselves.
• Personal attacks on people – there is no place for this! I think Lord Monkton, for example, talks a lot of drivel but there is no excuse to focus on his eye condition which is the result of a medical problem. That is totally inappropriate.
• Because I live in South Australia we have censorship over all political comment until after the next state election so to be legal, my name is Jean Cannon and my postcode is 5067. What nonsense.
I would love to see........
It was interesting listening to True Energy’s Managing Director in the ABC this morning. OK I know he has an exe to grind but he is one of those best qualified to comment on energy generation. His opinion is that the proposed ETS/CPRS is very expensive and inefficient.
He said that eventually the world would move forward to some form of emission trading or carbon price but he felt that direct action would be more cost effective.......
p.s. Most of my readers tell me this newsletter is a great way of getting up to date information easily but if you are really snowed under by lots of emails from other sources you can chose to keep in touch by emailling jean@enviroaction.com.au and go onto the monthly list.
|
