Search of the day (July 17)

Regina Leader Post (17 JULY 2014) The Price of Progress

http://www.leaderpost.com/price+progress/10037162/story.html

CBC News (16 JULY 2014) Report says civil servant sick leave costs minimal for taxpayers

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/civil-servant-sick-leave-costs-minimal-for-taxpayers-report-says-1.2708344

Globe and Mail (17 JULY 2014) Public servants’ sick days immaterial to Ottawa’s bottom line

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/public-servants-sick-days-immaterial-to-ottawas-bottom-line-report-says/article19630559/

Globe and Mail (17 JULY 2014) We’re getting hysterical about child safety

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/article19639369.ece

Globe and Mail (16 JULY 2014) Goodbye lawns?  Gardeners adapt to changing climate

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/home-and-garden/gardening/goodbye-lawns-gardeners-adapt-to-changing-climate/article19639445/

Daily Digest News (16 JULY 2014) Changes in pill color and shape may disrupt use, researchers say

http://dailydigestnews.com/2014/07/changes-in-pill-color-and-shape-may-disrupt-use-researchers-say/

NY Times (14 JULY 2014) Jane E. Brody – we are our bacteria

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/14/we-are-our-bacteria/?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3As%2C%7B%221%22%3A%22RI%3A7%22%7D

Maintaining microbiome diversity

Canada.com (16 JULY 2014) Record drought scorches California farmers with billions in losses

http://www.canada.com/Record+drought+scorches+California+farmers+with+billions+losses/10035085/story.html

R&D Mag (2 JULY 2014) Reseasrch could lead to dramatic data farm energy savings

http://www.rdmag.com/news/2014/07/research-could-lead-dramatic-data-farm-energy-savings

Washington State University has developed a wireless network on a computer chip that could reduce energy consumption at huge data farms by as much as 20%.

Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute – The storage necessity myth: how to choreograph high-renewables electricity systems

http://youtu.be/MsgrahFln0s

Centers for Disease Control (18 JULY 2014) Pedestrian traffic deaths among residents, visitors, and homeless persons – Clark County, Nevada, 2008-2011
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/prhttp://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6328a1.htm?s_cid=mm6328a1_eeview/mmwrhtml/mm6328a1.htm?s_cid=mm6328a1_e

Collaborative Consumption (14 JULY 2014) Pioneer interview with Ed Kushins of HomeExchange

http://www.collaborativeconsumption.com/2014/07/14/pioneer-interview-with-ed-kushins-of-homeexchange/?utm_source=Collaborative+Consumption+Updates&utm_campaign=db27021f42-Pivot7_17_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_02ce3a585c-db27021f42-320658333

Grist (16 JULY 2014) Houston’s one-bin-to-rule-them-all recycling plan smells a little like racism

http://grist.org/cities/houstons-one-bin-to-rule-them-all-recycling-plan-smells-a-little-like-racism/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Daily%2520July%252017&utm_campaign=daily

Grist (16 JULY 2014) Lay off the almond milk, you ignorant hipsters

http://grist.org/food/lay-off-the-almond-milk-you-ignorant-hipsters/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Daily%2520July%252017&utm_campaign=daily

Mother Jones (24 FEB 2014) It takes how much water to grow an almond?

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/02/wheres-californias-water-going

Grist (17 JULY 2014) Four things you should know about Detroit’s water crisis

http://grist.org/cities/the-4-things-you-should-know-about-detroits-water-crisis/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Daily%2520July%252017&utm_campaign=daily

CBC News (11 JULY 2011) Water meters may be on tap for Vancouver

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/water-meters-may-be-on-tap-for-vancouver-1.1079491

Metro Vancouver (2010) Water consumption statistic report

http://www.metrovancouver.org/about/publications/Publications/2010WaterConsumptionStatsReport.pdf

Stanford Social Innovation Review (Summer 2014) The Upside of CSR

http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/the_upside_of_csr

Stanford Social Innovation Review (10 JULY 2014) Three transformative business sustainability trends

http://www.ssireview.org/blog/entry/three_transformative_business_sustainability_trends

Climate Progress (17 JULY 2014) The one metric that’s hiding the true cost of climate change

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/07/17/3458718/one-metric-cost-climate-change/