Could someone please point out a positive trend somewhere in American culture? Here we’re celebrating Mothers’ Day, and I can’t think of a single gd thing to like about what’s going on here. We’re becoming increasingly brutal and cruel, less …
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Beware of Trolls
It’s safe to say that literally all 2GreenEnergy visitors who read the comments section of our blog have come across professional gadfly MarcoPolo. If you get a chance, check out his response to my recent post on meat made from …
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Grass Lawns Are So 20th Century
I had grass lawns surrounding every house I have owned through the years; they really are, or at least were, a part of the paradigm for homebuilding, at least here in the U.S. and Europe. Yet I agree with the author …
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Why Should the U.S. Invest in Global Warming Mitigation, When Its Leadership Is Composed of Climate Deniers?
I wrote a post yesterday called Trump Administration Continues Its Assault on Climate Science in which I discussed Science Magazine’s article “Trump White House quietly cancels NASA research verifying greenhouse gas cuts.” In brief, NASA’s Carbon Monitoring System (CMS), a $10-million-a-year …
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Trump Administration Continues Its Assault on Climate Science
Reporting on every action the Trump administration is taking to prevent climate scientists and lawmakers from mitigating global warming is a job far too vast for any one person. That being the case, I content myself with a scattershot approach, …
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Trump / Iran
I don’t like to gild the lily, and so I’ll simply provide this short video in which Emily Thornberry, Member of the British Parliament, delivers a chilling address that nails it perfectly.
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Small Wind Energy Has Limited Applications, But Won’t Go Away
As the legendary mandolinist Sam Bush puts it in this classic: Same ol’ river Same ol’ sea Same ol’ waters rushing over me
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Sustainable Architecture
Question: What’s an Earthship?
Notes on Biomass
As noted here, energy from biomass (non-fossil organic matter) is a much bigger deal in Europe than it is in America. That’s largely because of the mandate to get rid of coal, on top of which, the industry got a heavy-duty …
The Iran Nuclear Deal: Just Another Sad, Terrifying Day for the U.S., Planet Earth
There is exactly one winner in Donald Trump’s decision to pull the U.S. out of the Iran nuclear deal: Trump himself. His relationship with Fox News viewers will be strengthened, at this critical time when he’s under fire for dozens …
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