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Scott James
Website: http://twitter.com/ecoscottProfile: Scott James is a green copywriter living in San Francisco. He enjoys good coffee, innovative minds and challenging conversation. An experienced whitewater rafting and backcountry guide, he is passionate about water issues and the environmental web.
Stop The Water While Using Me!
Posted on 12. Aug, 2010 by Scott James.
When I used to guide backpacking trips, I worked with a guy who pointed out to our group every morning and every night that they had just brushed their teeth without running water. His point was that they should turn the water off when they brushed their teeth at home. It’s a simple enough idea that saves a lot of water over time, if everyone does it. And now there is a brand of bathroom products that puts that message on the bottle and the tube. The “Stop the Water While Using Me!” Shop is a website that sells just 3 products- shampoo, shower gel and toothpaste- that each have the simple “Stop the Water While Using Me!” message in place of a logo. [...]
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Garbage Sails Toward China’s 3 Gorges Dam
Posted on 09. Aug, 2010 by Scott James.
David de Rothschild famously built the Plastiki out of plastic bottles and sailed it from California to the fabled Pacific Garbage Patch. The journey took months to plan and more than a year to fully realize. But if he were in China on the Yangtze River, all he would have to do to see the problems a garbage patch can cause a waterway is walk to the shore. Recent rains in China have washed thousands of tons of garbage toward the locks of the Three Gorges Dam. Their state media said that it is so thick that people can stand on it in some places. [...]
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Great Lakes Are Warming Up For a Record
Posted on 03. Aug, 2010 by Scott James.
The Great Lakes have their shores full with issues around the invasive Asian carp, but that’s not the only danger facing the region. With 20% of the world’s freshwater, the health of the Great Lakes is critical- and this summer all of the lakes are registering temperatures far above what’s normal for the end of July. Lake Superior alone is estimated to be 10 to 15 degrees warmer than normal, and with another month of summer warming, experts think they could reach record-braking highs. [...]
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Envisioning Chicago’s Waterway System for the 21st Century
Posted on 29. Jul, 2010 by Scott James.
There is finally a concerted effort in the Great Lakes region to deal with the problem of Asian carp and other invasive threats to the ecosystem. After a series of unsuccessful lawsuits by Michigan and others to get the state of Illinois to close the Chicago River lock system and the subsequent confirmation of large Asian carp on the Great Lakes side of an underwater electronic barrier, state and city governments are joining to start an initiative to update the Chicago waterway system and protect the Great Lakes. All I can say is, it’s about time. [...]
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New York City Installs Real Time Water Monitoring
Posted on 28. Jul, 2010 by Scott James.
Before anyone can do anything about how much water we use (and waste) every day, we need to know how much we are actually using. And when you look around at how many of your daily activities include water, you get a sense of just how difficult a task that is. In spite of the challenge, New York City has announced that they are spending $252 million to upgrade the City’s water tracking system so that it monitors all of NYC’s water use in real time. [...]
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