Here’s a video that presents four different cleantech concepts, with an interesting mix of validity. The first, covering city streets with a reflective white coating, is completely valid, as it causes a significant percentage of the incoming solar radiation to …
Author: craigshields
We Have All the Knowledge We Need
Here’s a photo I just took in downtown Los Angeles. The ultimate building blocks of the universe and the nature of human consciousness are very complex things, and it’s possible that both are beyond the ken of humankind, especially the …
The Heterogeneous United States
Here is a slideshow reminding us that the each of the 50 United States has incredible beauty to offer those who live or visit there, and that beauty, bestowed to us by geologic evolution or God, depending on what you believe, …
Climate Change and Dystopia
While the content of the cartoon below is factual in many respects, keep this in mind: climate change will not ruin the lives of rich people. Regardless of how dystopian the world becomes, there will always be temperate weather, clean …
Tagged with: Climate Change
Shocking News: Trump Lied About Clean Power Plan, Paris Accord
From ThinkProgress: (As if you need to be told) Everything President Trump has said about President Obama’s climate plan and why he had to pull the United States out of the 2015 Paris Climate Accord turns out to be a lie.
You’ve Got the Power
From the Daily Stoic: The line from George Bernard Shaw was that “all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” He isn’t wrong. The reasonable man bends himself to the world, because he insists to himself that the world is this …
Tagged with: environmental or social injustice
Identifying Fake News Takes Hard Work Nowadays
It used to be that fake news was fairly easy to identify. Of course, some headlines make claims that are literally impossible (“Indian Elephant Population Triples in 2018”), where others are just so improbable (“Pope Commends Pedophiles”) that we write …
Why Can’t Trump Do Something Nice?
It would be so easy for Trump to do something nice, wouldn’t it?
From a Reader: Best Climate Change Jobs
Hey Craig, I’m Patrick from TalentDesk, a job search company. Just reaching out to you to let you know about a helpful guide on climate change jobs that we just published. I thought that since your audience is interested in environmental …
I’ve Seen Fire, But I Haven’t Seen Much Rain
Last January, if you had asked the people of Seattle to forecast their air quality in late August, very few would have predicted what you see at the bottom of these three photographs, i.e., the equivalent of smoking seven cigarettes …
