Here we have a photo of the economy seating section of a Pan Am Boeing 747 in 1970. The flight attendant is serving free drinks and a three course meal. That was before corporate greed took over virtually every aspect …
Category: Sustainability
Our British Associate Gary Tulie Offers His Ideas on the Maui Fires
2GreenEnergy supporter Gary Tulie writes as follows: Regarding the Maui fires I thought I would share with you a few thoughts. Firstly, the fires and associated deaths are a major tragedy, and anything I say is forward looking as to …
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An End to “Antiquated Bigotry?”
Here are the words of American singer, writer, actor, and comedian Henry Rollins, and he’s not alone in this belief. It’s certainly true that elderly people in the U.S. grew up in an era where bigotry was extremely common and …
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Moving Power to the States
There is no doubt that Washington has its bureaucrats, but what it doesn’t have is a commanding majority of the right-wing extremists we find in the red states. There is precious little support in Congress, and even less in the …
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Sadly, Saving Our Civilization Isn’t Cost-Effective
Kurt Vonnegut left us 16 years ago. Needless to say, the point he made here has only amplified over that period of time.
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The Corporate World and the Sustainability Movement Have No Bearing on One Another
At left is a reminder of a disturbing fact: the corporate world is making very few changes to its business models so as to slow the pace at which the Earth’s temperature is rising and its inhabitants are suffering droughts, …
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Competition v. Cooperation
Anthropologists generally consider the assertion here to be true. Over most of the past +/- 200K years, humankind has fared well, largely due to its capacity to take care of its fellows. Yes, we’ve had our tyrants over the millennia, …
Growing One’s Own Food
Re: the meme here, the answer is no. Think, please. For at least tens of thousands of years, humankind has figured out how to barter. I’ll cut your hair for 20 ears of corn. I’ll watch your kids for a dozen …
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Broadening Our Scope in U.S. Education
The United States has not benefited from its decision to systemically defund public education. There are kids graduating from our high schools who think that Wisconsin is in Africa. Yet, as illustrated here, there are children, like this genius, for …
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Considering Future Generations
Native Americans are famous for the role they play as caretakers of the natural environment. By contrast, we European emigres are infamous for our reckless disregard of anything that doesn’t make us richer in the next fiscal quarter.
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