Question: OK, Americans, if you had to do it on your own, how would you rank the 50 states in terms of education? An old friend who went to college with me in Connecticut boasts that the state of our …
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Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: UN’s Climate Summit
Question: What industry was more represented at the UN’s Climate Summit than any country? How many lobbyists from this industry were in attendance? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: These people are not folding their tents. …
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Halloween Costumes Can Be Environmentally Inspired
Question: While we’re on the subject of environmentally inspired Halloween costumes, how do you interpret this one? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: Note: Young people care deeply about this stuff.
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Ouch! Watch Those Analogies!
Question: What are the two most obvious problems with the logic in the meme here? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: The logic used by anti-vaxxers isn’t too strong.
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: The Politics of January 6th
Question: On January 6th, then U.S. Vice President Mike Pence refused to do then-President Trump’s bidding, and certified Joe Biden as America’s 46th chief executive. He did that because 60+ courts had rejected Trump’s law suits since there wasn’t a …
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: New Renewable Energy Generation Added to the Grid-Mix
Question: Which energy resource represented the most new generation in 2020? At 17 gigawatts, what percentage of the total new generation was that? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: It’s currently only 11% of the total grid-mix, …
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Renewable Energy Production in the United States
Question: As you look at the bar chart below, presenting the renewable energy generation in each of the 50 states, what’s the first thing you notice? (If you wish, see if your observation coincides with mine.) Answer: Can be found …
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Public Pension Funds’ Investments in Corporate Polluters
Question: Here’s an update from Bloomberg Green on pension funds’ move to divest themselves of Big Oil and other corporate polluters. Before you open it, take a cool guess: What percent of the total remains in these dirty investments? Answer: …
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Adapting To Climate Change
Question: We all have a sense that climate disasters with devastating effects are on the rise. Between 1980 and 2019, the United States experienced an average of 6.5 disasters per year that cost at least $1 billion. What has been …
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Texas’s Deregulated Electricity Market Cost Residents More Than the Loss of Power
Question: From the Wall Street Journal: Texas’s deregulated electricity market, which was supposed to provide reliable power at a lower price, left millions in the dark last week. For two decades, its customers have paid more for electricity than state residents …
