Question: What is the single most effective step to lowering one’s carbon footprint and tackling climate change? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: This is huge, but wow; who makes this decision on such a basis?
Author: craigshields
Species Extinction Is an “Ominous Picture”
The natural world holds wonders too numerous to be counted, whose beauty we often behold suddenly and unexpectedly. (A few seconds ago, when you checked out the latest posts here, you didn’t think you’d see an Alpine ibex, warming himself …
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Interpreting the U.S. Constitution
I used to play poker with Norm Novitsky, the fellow shown here. He always struck me as a smart guy, and he certainly earned my respect as a good player.
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Trump: What Happened Here?
When Trump first became a thing in 2015, I remember speaking with my mother (who was here when Calvin Coolidge was president) and asking, “Didn’t there used to be an unwritten rule that a candidate for president of the United …
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Lots of Good Environmental News
It’s not news that the U.S. federal government is doing a terrible job protecting the environment, or, more accurately, that they’re doing a fabulous job destroying it for profit. What needs to be recognized, however, is that virtually everywhere else …
Trump and Financial Crime: Yawnnnnnnn
The sequel to the 2018 best-seller that trashed the Trump Organization (“Fire and Fury: Trump in the White House) will be published on 4 June. In it, former White House adviser Steve Bannon has described the Trump Organization as a criminal entity …
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Solar PV — Amazing Graphic
Solar PV installations by country, as it morphs over time, is an interesting statistic. Anyone interested in the subject may want to check out the link above, featuring one of those fabulous high-motion graphics that shows this in a visually fascinating …
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Climate Change Models…and Beyond
For those keeping track of the latest thinking among climate scientists, I offer this piece from last month’s Science Magazine: “New Climate Models Forecast a Warming Surge.” The next IPCC report on the subject is due in 2021, but, interestingly, will …
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It’s Geothermal, But It’s….Where?
We haven’t heard too much about geothermal recently. When I was writing Renewable Energy–Facts and Fantasies almost 10 years ago, the interview I conducted with the leader in this space, Reno, NV-based Ormat Technologies left me with a sense of …
Thinking Big in America’s Largest City
Per the words of a great industrialist, “You have to think anyway, so you might as well think big.” Few places on Earth resemble New York City when it comes to deploying that concept; they’re not called the “Little Apple,” …
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