From The Sierra Club: This past Sunday, 144,000 gallons of oil spilled into Orange County coastal waters, beaches and wetlands, causing authorities to close several beaches. This is a public health disaster for the surrounding communities and wildlife. To prevent …
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News Media: “After a Life of Incalculable Harm, Billionaire Climate Denialist and Right-Wing Villain David Koch Dead at 79”
I had to laugh when I saw this headline this morning. The author apparently is either unaware of or not compelled by the two thousand year old aphorism: “De mortuis nil nisi bene dicendum,” or “Of the dead let nothing …
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Reducing Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) with Public Transportation
Question: What country just became the world’s first to reduce VMT with free public transportation?
Transitioning to Renewable Energy
Implied in the meme here is the notion that the fossil fuel industry is good for the economy, but let’s examine that. It certainly has been true historically, in fact, most of the developments over the past couple hundred years …
Lots of Horsepower Behind Environmental Sustainability
The content of the meme to the right is exactly correct. In fact, there are more than 200,000 groups internationally, some huge, some tiny, whose employees and volunteers are working tirelessly to keep this civilization from going off the rails, …
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Dealing with the Morally Challenged
The good news for this civilization is that there are many millions of people working tirelessly to keep it from imploding into itself, whether from environmental damage, nuclear war, world fascism, social injustice, or any number of other forms of …
In the Constellation of World Problems, How Important Is Climate Change Mitigation?
2GreenEnergy megasupporter Cameron sent me this piece, explaining why climate change is the most important story in the world today. Before the election of Donald Trump I certainly would have agreed, but now I’m not as certain.
We’re Saying Goodbye To Fossil Fuels, But Not As Soon As We’d Like
Jeff Merkley, a progressive senator from Oregon (a progressive state) is introducing legislation that provides a plan by which the country can wean itself off fossil fuels by 2050. Though the details of the plan aren’t available, they include the …
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Electric Utilities vs. Rooftop Solar
Here’s an article that suggests our power utilities don’t really want to see more rooftop solar. While that’s not really news to anyone, it certainly does raise a good question: what are the changes we need to make in our …
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Dealing with the Externalities of Our Major Industries
A reader commented on my post In Choosing Among Various Approaches to Energy, Politics Is a Very Big Deal that I support political action involving an ideological/moral campaign to prevent the eating of red meat. I suppose that would be a decent …
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