Recently I heard someone say, “If you’re drinking Smart Water, it’s not working.” Clever, and accurate at the same time. We don’t need bottled water of any type. Drinking water from reusable containers will help keep plastic waste out of …
Category: Sustainability
Good News from Barclays
Barclays committing to no longer investing in fossil fuel projects and that more than 96% of all new electric capacity in the U.S. will be renewable in 2024. I have personal connections at my bank that I don’t want to offend, and …
Tagged with: high ethical standards vis-a-vis the environment.
Income, Child-Bearing, and Population
Here’s what Santa Monica (CA)-based environmentalist Zan Dubin wrote to the editor of the Los Angeles Times in response to an article on income and childbearing, which includes: “What largely remains overlooked, however, is the abject failure of America’s political …
Engine Manufacturer Cummins Cheated, Fined Heavily
From this: Engine manufacturer Cummins must pay the second largest environmental penalty in United States history: a whopping $1.6 billion to settle claims that it outfitted hundreds of thousands of trucks with software to defeat pollution controls. Plug-In America co-founder …
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Honoring Our Educators
Much speculation has gone into pinning down exactly where American education fell off the rails. We might infer that Aristotle would point to how our teachers are both underpaid and rendered impotent in establishing order in the classroom.
Music in Our Lives
Who hasn’t driven next to a car whose driver has hip-hop music blasting into his (and your) ears? Is it even remotely possible not to form a negative judgement about such a person? The music one gravitates to is most …
Tagged with: removing music from our schools
A First Glance at Plato
First, we can either reject this idea (at left) or accept it as truth. Since it comes from a fairly decent pedigree, Plato, let’s assume that it has some merit. From there, we need to wonder what he meant by …
Tagged with: Plato
Culture and Barbarity
The question raised here is a good one. There are those who foretell the so-called “sixth extinction,” citing the high probability of nuclear war and environmental collapse. Of course, world fascism wouldn’t cause an extinction per se, but it would …
Change within the National Rifle Association–And It’s Not for the Better
News: Former NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre has been found liable for $5.4 million in a civil corruption case. The jury recommended that LaPierre be held for $5.4 million in damages. NRA and its senior management were sued in 2020, claiming …
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Tagged with: NRA gun safety
What Went So Wrong in U.S. Education?
By the time young people in Europe leave high school, they are fluent in 3+ languages, have read Plato, and play at least one musical instrument fairly well. Southeast Asians, as we all know, are more inclined towards math and …
