When I had my marketing consultancy with 200+ employees and clients on three continents, one of my top people once told me, “Craig, you obviously don’t suffer fools gladly, and that’s fine, but you need to be a bit more subtle …
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Does Trump Cause Hate and Violence, Or Did Hate and Violence Cause Trump?
As you review the piece below, ask yourself what’s really going on in the country. I’ve written several times that Trump is the result of the ignorance and hate of a huge portion of the U.S. population. But ponder this meme. …
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Renewable Energy Faces Political Headwind, Makes Progress Nonetheless
As suggested here, despite the Trump administration’s vigorous support of fossil fuels, those who predicted that renewable energy would continue to make rapid progress were correct.
Learning from Iceland’s Development of Geothermal Energy
Cheap energy has created enormous wealth on this planet; in fact, this is the underlying reason for the boom in affluence experienced in the developed world over the last century.
Artificial Intelligence Should Scare Us
There may be brighter people on this planet than American author, philosopher, neuroscientist, critic of religion, blogger, public intellectual, and podcast host Sam Harris, though I doubt it. In any case, if you want a good answer (the only good answer, in my view) to …
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Cleaning Up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
What’s with all the good news today? First the Trans Mountain pipeline gets axed and now this cheery prediction of the cleanup of ocean plastic, specifically, The Great Pacific Garbage Patch? If things come in threes, maybe we’ll get a …
Trump Supporters Are Taking It in the Teeth
It’s no secret that Trump’s rank and file supporters, i.e., working class Americans, are the ones most damaged by his policies. What was a secret, until now, is that someone was clever enough to create the meme here. Great job.
These Water Pipes Generate Electricity
As suggested here, installing turbines into large city pipes that transport water via the flow of gravity is a solid idea underneath the broad heading of hydrokinetics. Of course, there are caveats:
Indigenous Groups, Environmentalists Score Rare Victory
This may sound radical, but some people suggest that continuing to build out the fossil fuel infrastructure might not be such a good idea, given the horrific environmental consequences: water pollution, lung damage, climate change, ocean acidification, loss of biodiversity, …
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Getting To the Meat of the Matter
Earlier this week, Missouri became the first state in the U.S. to criminalize certain uses of the word “meat.” From EcoWatch:
