I spent the years from 1982 through 2008 as a business/marketing consultant, mostly serving large clients in IT and communications technology: IBM, H-P, AT&T, Microsoft, and the like. During that time I was very dialed in to the ethos in the …
Author: craigshields
Ocean Current Patterns in Peril
During a wonderful, albeit too short visit with family, my brother and I were discussing the thermohaline “conveyor belt” that governs the major ocean currents. See Bill Nye’s explanation here, and graphic below.
Electric Vehicle Chemistry
Chemical reactions that release energy are called “exothermic.” For example, take the combustion of methane, where we have: CH4 + 2O2 –> CO2 + 2H2O + energy. The energy is then used to cook our food, power our vehicles, or …
Tagged with: Electric Vehicle Chemistry
The “I” Word
This is the first post on 2GreenEnergy that mentions the word “impeachment,” and I present it only because it’s an elephant in the room.
Why Are Toxic Chemicals In Use Here that are Banned Throughout the Rest of the World?
A new study published in the open access journal Environmental Health reports that the U.S. has failed to ban many dangerous and toxic pesticides that are banned throughout the rest of the world, and “Science Rocks” asks, “Why has China, …
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Part of the Pressure on Coal Is Coming from……Trump Himself
China is the world’s largest consumer of coal; in fact, it consumes almost as much coal as the rest of the world combined–and, in the old days, lots of it had come via imports from the U.S. But what happened …
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Today’s Paradoxes
American life in the early 21st Century comes with some interesting paradoxes, and several of them surround law and order. One might think, for example, that those charged with the responsibility of thwarting crime might be the most vocal advocates for …
Tagged with: gun rights
Free Society at the Brink: Investigative Journalism in Danger
The arrest and torture of investigative journalist Ivan Golunov at the hands of Russian law enforcement, coming as it does, on the heels of the U.S.’s attempt to extradite Wikileaks’ Julian Assange and sentence him to 170+ years in prison, …
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U.S. Renewable Energy Capacity Leaves Coal “in the Dust”
It would be nice to see environmentalism leading the way in the phasing out of fossil fuels in favor of renewables, though that’s not at all what we are, in fact, experiencing.
Beavers: Rockstars of the Ecosystem
Here’s a recent piece from the Sierra Club explaining how and why beavers improve every ecosystem into which they make their magnificence present.
Tagged with: sequestering atmospheric carbon dioxide
