GenAI on Earth Day 2024: Overview

It is Earth Day, April 22.  Earth Day 54 since the first in 1970. (Earth Day Quiz below... Visit EarthDay.org or Wikipedia: Earth Day for more.)

Wow. The population was about 3.7b, now more than 8b. But as worldwide life span increases and wealth increases so does lifetime consumption.

We employed our fav GenAIs to chat about it... and to generate some graphics. This is the overview with the prompts: there are two blog posts with GenAI chats: Part 1 and Part 2. Please feel free to run GenAI chats of your own.

Let's Trash it! New Garbage Patch in the South Pacific Is 1.5x Texas. Weather Channel

Newly Discovered Garbage Patch in the South Pacific Is 1.5 Times the Size of Texas, Study Says | The Weather Channel:

Let's TRASH it !

Speaking of trash.

We keep making it.

We box it, we stack it.

We keep spreading it liberally around the world.

We keep taking the planet for granted. !!!

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Check out the Great Pacific Garbage Patch at Wikipedia.  Note the visualization of ocean flows using ocean buoys (off to the right).
(Title: Garbage Patch Visualization Experiment.webm Author: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio Date: 2 October 2015)

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Cleaning up our garbage patch takes a 21 year old

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/06/28/3792829/ocean-clean-up-project-unveiled/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cptop3&utm_term=1&utm_content=22

Cleaning up our (garbage patch) act is going to take some work.  It takes a 21 year old... see the refs to new studies. 700 pieces of plastic in the ocean for every man woman and child on Earth! And the problem is, that there will never be an end to the plastic until we stop producing it and shipping it off to Sea...

Everyone being simply more aware of the problem, that's actually a good start as well.

Earth Day Number 2 (of 4): Reduce, reuse, recycle (rethink)

Number 2. Reduce, reuse and recycle. You actually want to add rethink here. Something as simple as using water bottles saves hundreds of dollars per year, per person. You simply buy one or two water bottles and use them for years… refilling from fountain or tap water that is essentially free.

ToDo: Buy (BPA-free) Water Bottles and start using them instead of bottled water and sodas. (A couple dollars invested results in up to $100 savings per month.)

UPS Decision Green Technology Forum presentation - UPS Pressroom

Highlights - UPS Corporate Responsibility:

Just got a REALLY COOL UPS letter today.

The envelope does a folding Origami-type thing and you can reuse it!. So very cool.

Here's a pix of the label which says: reduce, reuse it and THEN recycle!...

Decision Green(sm) is a service mark of UPS.

100% recycled with 80% post consumer.

I love it!

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