The other day, I had a lunch meeting with two folks from a start-up that distributes an array of eco-friendly products. As we were finishing up, one asked me, “Are you optimistic?” I knew he wasn’t asking me about my …
Category: Sustainability
Taking the Side of the Weak
As we make our way toward Christmas and some of us consider how we can refashion our lives so as to better conform with the teachings of Jesus, it’s worth noting what Harriet Beecher Stowe said here. Unbridled capitalism has …
Coal and Our Energy Future
From the ad at left: American energy independence needs coal power. Sign the petition to keep local coal plants open and protect our economy. This was written to appeal to people who know absolutely nothing about our energy markets and …
What Shutting Down Libraries Means about Authoritarianism
Per this story: (Here’s a photo of) the children’s section in Patmos Library in Jamestown, Michigan. Local citizens voted to defund it in Nov., after it refused to ban all LGBTQ+ books. Now a local politician has suggested shutting down …
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This New Year Wish Is Not Shared By All
A friend sent me the good wishes at left, which I happily share with all 2GreenEnergy readers. Keep in mind that, strange though it may be, not everyone feels this way; this is something of a controversial statement. Think of …
Tagged with: abandon the Constitution
On Cooperation
This fellow’s beliefs, as presented here, were accepted by the majority of intellectuals at the turn of the 20th Century. Marx and Engels, drawing on Hegel, had forwarded the idea of the dialectic, which, in political terms, means the never-ending …
What Precisely IS the Story of Human Civilization?
I love the sentiment here, but this is not an accurate depiction of the situation in which humankind finds itself. In particular, there never was a time at which we considered ourselves brothers and sisters, etc. Recently, the theory of …
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The Dumbing Down of America
Below is a Christmas cartoon from 1974. To me, what makes it worth mentioning is that 50 years ago, most Americans could have recited this passage from H.D. Thoreau from memory, where today, just half a century into the great …
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Celebrating the Blessing of Christmas
My wife is decorating our Christmas tree in advance of a party we’re hosting tomorrow evening. My job is putting on music of the season to keep her in the mood as she picks out the ornaments and arranges them …
Tagged with: Taking Care of One Another
Hate and Ignorance Are Warmly Welcomed Here
There have been neo-Nazis in American society, their numbers ebbing and rising, ever since the Third Reich was put down in 1945. They are a scourge to civilization, because they remind us of everything that is wrong with the human …
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