As I wrote yesterday, I recently had the good fortune to meet Jonathan Jarvis (pictured at left), 18th Director of the U.S. National Park Service under Barack Obama. I thought readers would be interested to know that he now teaches …
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Former Director of the U.S. National Park Service Sets Sights on New Goals in Environmental Justice
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Director of the U.S. National Park Service Provides Insight into Trump
I had the good fortune to sit next to Jonathan Jarvis (pictured at left), 18th Director of the U.S. National Park Service under Barack Obama, on a four-hour-long flight last night. It was a lengthy time period sufficient to hear …
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Questioning Fox News Anchor’s Loyalties
A reader, apparently a Trump supporter, sent me the meme here, and wrote, “I’m beginning to question his (Fox News anchor Chris Wallace’s) loyalties,” spawning the following conversation:
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Trump Impeachment Trial: Shields Family Reactions
Regarding the meme here: My mother will be gratified to see that I’m quoting the (conservative) Wall Street Journal.
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With Trump, We Got What (Most of Us) Expected
Shorty after Trump was elected in 2016, I told my wife: You know, there is a non-zero chance that one of two things is going to happen:
Testing Claims in Wind Power
The text here translates into English as “Little wind energy generator can make a house energy independent.” But doesn’t that seem like a stretch, just looking at it? If you were to put something the size of a small ceiling …
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Rollback of Environmental Regulations
Question: With the realm of greenhouse gas emissions, animal protection, water and air pollution, and extraction, how many total laws protecting our environment and health have been, or are in process to become eliminated by the Trump administration at this …
Tagged with: animal protection, Clean Energy Answers, emissions, extraction, Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Rollback of Environmental Regulations, resulting damage to the environment and human health, take a cool guess, total laws protecting our environment have been or are soon to be eliminated by the Trump administration at this point
Senate Impeachment “Trial” Tests Conscience of a Nation
To Dan Rather’s point here: Sadly, at this point it appears that it doesn’t matter where the “conscience of the nation” falls. We know that 72% of Americans want a trial with evidence and witnesses, and it’s not like McConnell …
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Humanity at its Core
From Wikipedia: Casandra Brené Brown, PhD spent her career studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy and is the author of five #1 New York Times best sellers: The Gifts of Imperfection, Daring Greatly, Rising Strong, Braving the Wilderness, and her latest book, Dare to Lead, which is the …
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Hey, U.S., the World Is Watching
This piece on Canada’s viewpoint on the U.S. ends with, “The world is watching.” I’d like to believe that. At this point it’s probably more correct to say that the world was watching, but has long since given up, out …
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