Frequent commenter Marco Polo offers this suggestion to a reader who’s weighing her options re: cleantech: Like most consumers, you will decide on the technology’s convenience and value for money first and ideology second. That’s not wrong, it’s just common sense; …
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Even if the water temperatures were enticing, which they’re not, you still wouldn’t want to swim in the channel north of Scotland that separates the Atlantic from the North Sea (pictured). The tides are fearsome, characteristic of all ocean shorelines …
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Here’s an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times called “Harvey should be a warning to Trump that climate change is a global threat.” Sorry if this sounds like splitting hairs, but if the author is discussing climate change and using …
Here’s an article in The Economist that pays the homage that is due to the internal combustion engine, which, since it came on the scene 124 years ago, has systematically changed virtually every aspect of human life on this planet. …
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As we celebrate Van Morrison’s 72nd birthday, let’s take a look back at a post I wrote five years ago. By the time I’ve driven my rental car off the Avis lot in any particular city, I’ve usually found a …
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In our ongoing effort to keep 2GreenEnergy readers informed on developments in the electric vehicle space, here’s a new entrant from a company called Sondors. The essence of the trike form is that it circumvents NHTSA (National Highways Traffic Safety Administration, part …
For those wishing to understand the relationship between climate change and hurricanes, here’s a wonderful piece from Yale University that describes precisely the role that warmer oceans play in all destruction we’re seeing.
It’s the 375th birthday of British philosopher John Locke, known to academics largely for his writings on empiricism, i.e., the doctrine that all knowledge is derived from our senses, that the external world makes an imprint on our minds via …
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Here’s a letter discussing the U.S. EPA’s attack on our existing standards for clean transportation, from Plug-in America, the largest advocacy group for electric vehicles in the world. I’ve had the pleasure of working with this organization’s co-founders, Chelsea Sexton …
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My dear friend Terry Ribb writes: I thought this person, Shannan Guinn, might be a great interview for you. I am helping a young person with her application to the Presidential Scholarship Program. To prepare, I looked at past scholars, …
