Question: What industry was more represented at the UN’s Climate Summit than any country? How many lobbyists from this industry were in attendance? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: These people are not folding their tents. …
Tag: Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Halloween Costumes Can Be Environmentally Inspired
Question: While we’re on the subject of environmentally inspired Halloween costumes, how do you interpret this one? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: Note: Young people care deeply about this stuff.
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: The Politics of January 6th
Question: On January 6th, then U.S. Vice President Mike Pence refused to do then-President Trump’s bidding, and certified Joe Biden as America’s 46th chief executive. He did that because 60+ courts had rejected Trump’s law suits since there wasn’t a …
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Renewable Energy Production in the United States
Question: As you look at the bar chart below, presenting the renewable energy generation in each of the 50 states, what’s the first thing you notice? (If you wish, see if your observation coincides with mine.) Answer: Can be found …
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Public Pension Funds’ Investments in Corporate Polluters
Question: Here’s an update from Bloomberg Green on pension funds’ move to divest themselves of Big Oil and other corporate polluters. Before you open it, take a cool guess: What percent of the total remains in these dirty investments? Answer: …
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Texas’s Deregulated Electricity Market Cost Residents More Than the Loss of Power
Question: From the Wall Street Journal: Texas’s deregulated electricity market, which was supposed to provide reliable power at a lower price, left millions in the dark last week. For two decades, its customers have paid more for electricity than state residents …
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: EPA Lost Hundreds of Scientists
Question: The years 2016 – 2020 saw a huge exodus of scientific experts at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, due to firings, re-assignments, and simply leaving out of frustration, seeing that science itself had been demoted to a lower role, …
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: A Bit of Oil-Related Justice
Question: Donald Pols and Channa Samkalden are top bananas in the Dutch environmental organization Milieudefensie. Why are they so happy? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: Allowing Big Oil to ravage our planet and its people with …
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Wind Turbine Placement
Question: There are at least three central problems with the idea put forth here, i.e., installing wind turbines under bridges. What are they? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: A great deal of thought goes into siting …
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Science and the U.S. Presidency
Question: For the first time in its history, Scientific American is endorsing a candidate for the U.S. presidency. In what year was the magazine first published? Who was president at the time? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers.
