Future of The Environmental Services Industry

"But if we win, on our budget, with this team,  we'll change the game."   - Billy Beane, Oakland A's General Manager I saw the movie "MoneyBall" for the second time the other day. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it. You can view the movie trailer below. MoneyBall Trailer The movie is based on a true story. In the movie the General Manager of the Oakland A's baseball team, Billy Beane, attempts to devise a strategy for assembling a team for 2002, but struggles to overcome Oakland's "limited" player payroll. You see, they have the smallest payroll in baseball and can't afford to compete head to head with the big payroll teams like the New York Yankees.  In the movie, and in real life, he teams up with an economist named Peter Brand, and together they look at players and player statistics from a completely different angle than was traditional throughout the history of baseball. Th...

July 24, 2019 "Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations  which we can perform without thinking of them."  - Alfred North Whitehead I may be dating myself, but when I started working in the environmental industry, the fax machine was just becoming standard office equipment. They were slow, used thermal paper that came on a roll, and you had to cut the paper into the right size yourself. The Fax Machine - Circa 1990 paper was difficult to work with as it wanted to roll back up on itself. When we needed results from a laboratory in a hurry, we would ask them to "fax it over." We would have to re-type the data ourselves into whatever format we wanted it in. Tables I worked on back then were mostly rudimentary tables constructed in a software called "WordPerfect". I spent hours and hours re-typing data from paper to a computer only to print it back out on paper again. It was a good thing both I ...