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Local Politics Gets Fiery
As mentioned previously, 2GreenEnergy “headquarters” is located in Santa Ynez, Santa Barbara County, CA. Where the city of Santa Barbara is extremely progressive, Santa Ynez is very “God and country,” and it’s obvious everywhere one looks, from pictures of John …
You’ve Got the Power
From the Daily Stoic: The line from George Bernard Shaw was that “all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” He isn’t wrong. The reasonable man bends himself to the world, because he insists to himself that the world is this …
Testing Rule of Law in American Democracy, Given the Coming “Fire and Fury”
Per yesterday’s Writer’s Almanac: On this day in 1974, Richard Nixon officially resigned from the presidency.
Fighting for Environmental Protection
Though we tend to think of current-day U.S. politics as being the most contentious ever in our history, that’s not the case. There have been many such periods, starting with the American Revolution itself, in which 70% of the colonists …
You Make a Difference
At 2GreenEnergy, we frequently take on the subject of the enormous, albeit often unacknowledged, power to change the world around us. One of the quotes that seems to sum this up best came from former U.S. Secretary of State Henry …
The Effect of Raising One’s Voice
Re: my post on Bill McKibben speaking about the U.S. presidential election, frequent gainsayer MarcoPolo writes: Advocates like Mckibben may get cheers from the “converted” but many Democrats will stay away from the polls because they don’t like his rhetoric. …
It’s Not Impossible to Make Broad and Wonderful Changes To Our Civilization; It Happens All the Time
In response to my post The U.S. Citizenry Is in the Process of Taking Back Its Democracy, a rather cynical reader notes: “corruptive influence of money,” is a cliche like “world peace.” Such slogans sound ideal and high minded, but while …
We All Make a Far Greater Difference Than We Can Possibly Know
It’s heartening to look through the comments to my recent post: “The Environmental Movement: Too Conciliatory?” — insofar as many point out the role of the individual in determining the course of history. We have FAR greater capacity to change …
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Regarding Energy and the Environment, The Worm Turns
American history contains a few examples of “the worm turning” (** see below) i.e., cases in which a downtrodden group successfully defeated the source of their oppression and changed the course of oppression accordingly. The most obvious, of course, was …
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