Fred Rogers represents what’s best in all of us, and his life’s work stands as a reminder of some of our basic and beautiful truths. In particular, the world is crying out for kindness and compassion, and there will always …
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U.S. Supreme Court and Democratic Socialism
I thought I’d publish part of the conversation I’m having with my mother, who, as is the case with many Americans, both young and old, sees our country going to the dogs. Her particular concern is that the Supreme Court …
Renewable Energy Plays Key Role in GE’s Future
As shown here, the past 18 years haven’t been kind to investors in U.S. industry icon General Electric–but exactly what went wrong? The common wisdom is that the enterprise was simply so diverse and far-flung that it had become unmanageable.
When It Comes To Climate Change Mitigation, Ignorance Is Strength
In order to keep the electorate here in the U.S. ignorant on the subject of climate change, Senate Republicans have taken a bold new approach: stop an attempt to educate TV meteorologists.
Here’s a Take on Coal–Directly from–The T-E-R-M-I-N-A-T-O-R
Anyone reading these words already knows where I stand on Trump’s obsession with resuscitating the coal industry. Why would he: • Deliberately inflict damage to the lungs of everyone living on Earth?
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Diamonds Are Forever, But Cows Aren’t
If you’re going to kill cows for beef, there probably isn’t a huge ethical issue with using their hides for leather shoes, car seats, furniture, or whatever. But what happens when the consumption of beef falls precipitously? This is almost …
Solar Thermal: Not Gone, Not Forgotten
When I wrote Renewable Energy–Facts and Fantasies in 2010, solar thermal (aka concentrated solar power or CSP) was a big deal, largely because of the way it readily lent itself to solving the intermittency issue via energy storage as heat, …
Don’t Worry About the Present-Day U.S.–Everything Will Turn Out Fine
Within a few days of Trump’s ascendancy to power, many people started to notice fascist/authoritarian tendencies: nepotism, condemning the press, bans on religious sects, scapegoating minorities, the encouraging of violence, appointing cronies to cabinet posts, anti-intellectualism, fraudulent reporting of elections, …
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Trump Administration Working Tirelessly To Make Climate Change Mitigation Impossible
Almost every day we learn about a new way in which the Trump Administration has eviscerated our nation’s capacity to safeguard its people from a certain type of environmental harm.
268 Down, 262 To Go. More Than Half of the U.S. Coal Plants Billowing Poison Into the Atmosphere in 2010 Shuttered
For those of us with lungs, it really hasn’t been a bad eight years. Though it seems like it was eons ago, it was in 2010 that the U.S. had 530 operating coal-fired power plants. Now more than half of …
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