Hey, Americans. If you were going to expatriate, where would you go? As U.S. politics becomes more terrifying and life here becomes more bizarre, an ever-increasing number of us are asking ourselves this precise question.
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Ruining the Environment Made Easy
Scrapping anything and everything that came from the Obama administration is an obsession for Donald Trump, and hats off, he’s ferociously good at it.
Lots To Like About OffShore Wind, But….
Here’s an article suggesting: “We could power the whole of human civilization with wind turbines in the open sea.” Perhaps we need to define what we mean by “could.”
The EPA Announces War on Solar and Wind: Best of Luck
Scott Pruitt, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, is involved in two major offensives aimed at helping huge corporate polluters profit at the expense of the environment. The first is the repeal of the Obama-era Clean Power Plan that …
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Mensa Shows that Excellence in Public Relations Means Positioning with Breaking News
There are two main schools of thought when it comes to PR:
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America: Where Are You Headed?
I wrote a post yesterday about the troubling direction U.S. politics is going, suggesting that it could get worse. In response, frequent commenter Glenn Doty writes: We have still moved forward a tremendous amount in the past 8 years, and …
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After the Emissions Scandal, Volkswagen Wants Us Back
My ill-fated idea to trade in my eight-cylinder 4.0 liter BMW for a high-mileage (43 MPG) car led me to the VW Jetta TDI, which I traded back to them the moment the Department of Justice ordered them to make …
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Insanity in U.S. Government Means Deep Anxiety for Most Americans
Given the bizarre happenings in U.S. government today, many Americans view reminders of our country’s past with a kind of bittersweet nostalgia, and the fear that, absent a miracle, our best days are behind us. On this day in 1888, …
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High-Level Discussion of Energy Storage
As our civilization attempts to integrate more solar and wind into its grid-mix, the subject of energy storage becomes increasingly important. This article in GreenTechMedia offers a cursory look at the three technologies that are competing with batteries: pumped hydro, compressed …
The World Governments Confront Sea-Level Rise
A colleague from the Bay Area writes: Craig, Few people noticed the approval process for the San Francisco Giants project to build housing on ocean-front property they own near AT&T Park. They have added this: “Another change is that the …
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