This piece in the Guardian is a wonderful short essay on the topic. I speculate the following: • That China is effectively sinking the U.S. with economics. • Russia has hurt us very badly installing Donald Trump as president. • …
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Thorium: Coming Closer Every Day
Here’s a fabulous video in which the presenter offers a crash course on the particle physics associated with nuclear energy. Once this is under our belts, we’re in a position to understand the value of thorium, and essential design of …
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Environmental Responsibility Means Dealing with Apathy and Distraction
I have the thought expressed in the meme here constantly. In addition to catastrophic climate change, we have the retrogression into fascism and tribalism, genocide and mass starvation, all of which receive a small fraction of the attention we pay …
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Exploring Climate Dystopia
Author and humanitarian Arthur C. Clarke left us with many wonderful ideas by which to live, including this one: “I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.”
Marketing Can Be Shameless, and the Products It Promotes Can Be Harmful
I’ve been chatting with an old friend who, like me, had a long career in marketing; she became a VP at Grey Advertising. She told me about her experience at a practice round for the PGA Championship (that starts today …
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Early Television and What We Can Learn From It
Today is the 90th anniversary of the first demonstration of the television, and thus an opportunity for me to tell this little story. The technology of TV was developed before humankind could figure out how to use it, and thus …
Corporations and Sustainability
I’m giving a talk later this month on the subject of multinational corporations and their participation in environmental stewardship and sustainability. I get the distinct impression that the guy who invited me to speak expects this to be uplifting, and, …
From A Guest Blogger: Could Catastrophic Climate Change Lead To Falling Real Estate Values?
(Note: Why not ask the owner of the place pictured here, whose pool is normally 8 – 10 feet above sea level? -ed) When you are searching for prime real estate property in the United States, you will certainly not …
From Guest Blogger Gary Tulie: Cars in England 2045
Editor’s Note: Here’s a fun little piece from my friend Gary Tulie, the fellow who was so helpful on my most recent book (“Bullish on Renewable Energy“). I hope he’s right about his predictions here, and I hope Buckinghamshire still …
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At Issue in the 21st Century: Coal-Fired Power Plants
As we bump along into a new year, perhaps it’s time to ask ourselves: What do the world’s scientists tell us about our course vis-à-vis sustainability? Well, a lot of things, really. For example, our oceans are over-fished and filled …
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