I heartily recommend the PBS special: “Civilization: The West and the Rest,” which does a fine job in analyzing the six “killer apps” that resulted in the dominance of the Western culture over the remainder of the world. They are: …
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Scientists tell us that the threat of climate change (not to mention the other issues associated with the depletion of natural resources in the face of population growth) is the most important event facing mankind in the entire history of …
When Annie Leonard (“The Story of Stuff”) spoke last night, she made it clear that, with all the bad news in the world in terms of resource depletion, toxicity, population growth, injustice, etc., there is some fabulous news: the vast majority …
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Here’s another in our continuing series of free reports based on the reader surveys we do here at 2GreenEnergy. Those of us who are wondering what life on Earth will be like in 10 or 20 years will want to …
Free Report: How Sustainable Is Our Way of Life? Read More »
To simplify where we are as a civilization and where we’re going with respect to energy consumption, economics, and environmentalism, it’s useful to postulate three broad “plans”: Plan A: We continue on our current course. We ignore the fact that our …
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Are you familiar with our surveys here, in which we ask readers to weigh in on the important topics of the day? Please consider and comment on the following set of ideas, which I’ll send out as soon as I …
Survey: Contemplating Mankind’s Medium-Term Future: 2011 – 2050 Read More »
“There is no energy crisis, just a crisis of ignorance,” the great Buckminster Fuller once wrote. I’ve been Googling this, learning more about it, and challenging myself to figure out what it truly means in our world today. Check out …
