It’s hard to look at the photo here and not be moved by these incredibly intelligent and sensitive creatures. Wouldn’t you like to give them both a big hug? But elephant numbers have dropped by 62% over the last decade, and …
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Marrying Cleantech Solutions with Sources of Investment Capital
I want to send you this as a reminder that I’m still in the business of bringing together solid ideas in cleantech (mostly renewable energy) with sources of investment capital.
Consumerism Isn’t For Everyone
I’m going to take a wild guess and suggest that the guy living here doesn’t have a 75″ flat screen TV on which he watches Monday Night Football with his beer-swilling friends. Henry David Thoreau said, “If a man loses pace with …
Tagged with: consumerism
Crude Prices Are Down–What’s Up?
Given that macro-economics isn’t an exact science, there are many opinions on the causes and effects of the plummeting price of crude (down 6.6%) today. One, given on today’s edition of NPR’s “Marketplace,” is that the developed world has accepted …
How We Think and Behave: It Gets Weird
“All men desire by nature to know,” Aristotle begins his best-known work, The Nicomachean Ethics. “The Ethics,” as it’s normally called, explores man’s relationship to his fellows and the optimum way to live our lives.
Tagged with: brain physiology
Concept in Energy Storage Features New Idea, Old Technology
Here’s a novel concept in energy storage: a wind turbine integrated with its own mass that can be moved against gravity to generate and store potential energy which is then converted via a generator to electricity when required. It’s akin …
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Reforestation
The painting at the left is by my favorite living artist, Maurizio Rega, of Cava Dei Tirreni, in Campania, southern Italy, near Naples. As you check out his work, you’ll note that he does a lot of trees.
Tagged with: reforestation
Solar Boom in Ohio Reminds Us of an Important Truth
Here’s an article that discusses the boom in solar PV that’s taking place in the southern part of Ohio. It’s a reminder that the politics of a certain region of the country has very little to do with the success …
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Environmental Responsibility Means Dealing with Apathy and Distraction
I have the thought expressed in the meme here constantly. In addition to catastrophic climate change, we have the retrogression into fascism and tribalism, genocide and mass starvation, all of which receive a small fraction of the attention we pay …
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Tagged with: catastrophic climate change
Europe’s Fully On Board with Climate Change Mitigation
Here’s a short but wonderful video that presents what five large European cities are doing to reduce emissions, while improving the quality of their peoples’ lives. It’s hard to imagine what these folks think of the U.S. at this point.
Tagged with: climate change mitigation
