Question: In 1992, 1,700 independent scientists signed the “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity.” The letter warned that “human beings and the natural world are on a collision course” and if environmental damage was not stopped, our future was at risk. Yesterday, …
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Keystone XL Pipeline Leaks
The Keystone Pipeline ruins the planet. But it has two modes: When it works as advertised, this destruction takes place slowly, over a period of decades; when it fails, the process is greatly accelerated. The Facebook post to the left …
Musician David Crosby Isn’t Cultivating an Audience of Trump Supporters
David Crosby happens to live near me, and I’ve had the pleasure of meeting him a couple of times. Let me tell you, here’s hard to miss with that imposing head (and face) full of gray hair and a smile …
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How Notions of Virtue Apply In Today’s World (Or Fail To)
From “The Daily Stoic“: U.S. General Fox Connor would tell his young protege Dwight D. Eisenhower: “Always take your job seriously, never yourself.” It’s a paradoxical truth: The responsibilities thrust upon you are important and your duty to those you …
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Patriotism Means Moving the Country You Love in the Right Direction
We have a frequent commenter here who regularly voices his opinion that because the Paris Climate Accord is nonbinding that it’s merely symbolic. I respond:
U.S. To Rest of World: Go Die
Yes, people of conscience are nauseated by the Unites States’ withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord and our using the 23rd U.N. Climate Convention as a venue to promote the continued and expanded use of fossil fuels.
What We Need To Learn from Trump’s Overturning Obama’s Ban on Importing Elephant Carcass Trophies
Shown here: Donald Trump, Jr., in one hand, showing off the tail of a elephant he’d just killed in East Africa, in the other, the knife he’s used in dismembering the corpse. A Zimbabwean emissary to the climate conference in …
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2GreenEnergy Doesn’t Attend Conferences Promoting Coal
I go to a fair number of conferences on renewable energy, and sustainability more generally. A few times a year, I check out events calendars, decided where I’m going and when, and then hit up the event producers for press …
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Why the Energy Storage Industry Isn’t Taking Off
Here’s an article discuss the perils of the energy storage industry, which, in my mind, misses the central issues: The main issue facing the energy storage industry is an ironic one: so many people benefit from it that it’s hard to …
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Adding Energy Storage To Solar and Wind
It goes without saying that integrating storage to wind and solar energy adds value. Not only does it provide dispatchable power from sources that would have otherwise been intermittent, but it also allows the owner to sell “ancillary services” such …
