The woman who wrote the piece on the left makes a fabulous point. When it comes to climate change denial, we think of a demagogue leading ignorant people around by the nose. Of course, that’s part of it, but realize …
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Good News from Norway
Here’s a cool video about the marvelous progress that Norway is making in terms of electrifying transportation, and the gains they’re seeing in terms of improved air quality and thus, human health. This didn’t happen without government subsidies, but Norwegians tend …
America Receiving Its Just Desserts
What are the criteria by which Americans evaluate candidates for public office? I suppose that depends on what part of the country we’re talking about. A West Virginia Republican lawmaker is facing bipartisan backlash after comparing LGBTQ people to the Ku Klux …
Tagged with: climate change denier
Trader Joe’s Listens To Customer Feedback, Making Big Changes in Packaging Their Produce
I wish I had a dollar for every time I (gently) complained about the packaging, as well as a the sourcing, of TJ’s produce. There are good reasons to shop at TJs, but produce isn’t one of them. It never …
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A Scary Thought
The meme here is a reference to President Trump’s recent conversation with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un about the death by torture of Otto Warmbier, an American college student who died after being jailed by North Korea, in which Trump said, …
Tagged with: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un
High-Level Notes on the Green New Deal
Insofar as the concept of the “Green New Deal” is in the news, it’s worth looking at some of the broad ideas that would serve to support such a concept in general…or that might invalidate it as an unavoidably wasteful …
Tagged with: Green New Deal
Classmates Sometimes Make Us Proud
When you spend four college years with a class of about 400, you get to know a great many of them, from course work inside and outside your major, dorm life, sports, fraternities, and other social activities. A great many …
Should Illness and Death By Counted in the Cost of Pollution from Power Plants?
Here’s an article that shines another little ray of light on what’s happening in the Trump administration’s EPA. In this case, it’s an attack on the Obama-era Mercury and Air Toxics Standard (MATS), where the EPA, at the time, found that it …
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Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: The Environmental Protection Agency and the Mining Industry
Question: What key change has the Trump administration’s EPA made in regulating the toxic waste coming from mining operations? What is the impact on the health and safety of the people living in Montana, California, Colorado, Oklahoma, and other states?
International Approach to Climate Change
It’s pretty clear what’s happening in the U.S. re: climate change and its mitigation:
Tagged with: access to the worldwide oil supply, and, climate change mitigation, here is a New York Times article on the subject. At least there is some good news, renewable energy portfolio standards, somewhere in the world., subsidies for fossil fuels, to that end, various countries are doing about climate change, withdrawal from the Paris Accord
