School shootings are unlike the need for climate change mitigation, universal healthcare, voter protection, and all the other slow-rolling tragedies. They are acute moments of extreme anguish, when our nation cries out to its leaders: DO SOMETHING! Yet, in a …
Tag: campaign finance reform
The 21st Century: an Era of Moral Extremes
It’s such an interesting time to be alive. The stakes are so high, and there seems to be a greater divide than ever between good and bad. Good things and people are better than they’ve been before. We have a …
Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Corruption in Government
It’s the birthday of social philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a leading figure in the Enlightenment, whose writings contain the basic ideas behind the U.S. Constitution, the French Revolution, and so many other important elements of the way Western civilization has developed …
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Campaign Finance Reform and the First Amendment
Occasionally I write on political and philosophical points that have important but indirect effect on renewables. As a result, folks sometimes want me to link to their blogs in spaces that are off-topic to clean energy. If you’re interested, here’s …
Don't Look for a Level Playing Field for Renewables Before Radical Campaign Finance Reform
I try to be judicious in my blogging about the politics associated with renewables, mindful that taking sides can alienate certain people. But guest blogger Cameron Atwood brings up something in response to my piece on Campaign Finance Reform that …
Say Adios to Campaign Finance Reform
I have to laugh. Yesterday I happened to mention campaign finance reform, hoping, in my boyish naivete, for a miracle that would somehow enable our leaders to push for legislature that favors people, rather than corporate interests. But what happened …
Political Process Reform
Writing about the political process, Bob Goldschmidt notes: The system will never allow campaign finance reform or term limits. However there is a way — individual contributions made to move election results. It’s interesting that you say this. I personally …
Big Energy and Campaign Finance Reform
The interviews that I am conducting that will eventually form the chapters of my upcoming book on renewables are, by design, on a variety of different topics. Yet I can’t help noticing that powerful common threads are emerging from the …
