We all struggle to understand the neo-Nazis. Is this some form of mental illness, exacerbated by mob rule? How do these people consider themselves a “master race?” Is this a genetic mutation gone horribly wrong? The result of bad parenting …
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What’s New at the EPA? Actually, It’s Impossible To Know.
What do we know about what’s happening in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under the leadership of Scott Pruitt? Well, the whole thing started when Pruitt was appointed to the position purely because of his tenacious and lifelong opposition to …
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Costa Rica Takes the Purest Joy in Setting Records for Environmental Stewardship
Who doesn’t love Costa Rica? With an educational system ranked 20th in the “Global Competitiveness Report 2013–14,” described as of “high quality,” a literacy rate of 94.9%, and a healthcare system that ranks essentially the same, the country’s natural beauty is hardly the …
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Russia Might Be Doing Something in Wind Energy–Or Maybe Not
Though he was only a couple of years out of college when I was introduced to Stephen Lacey (pictured) in 2009, he had already become a senior staff writer at the prestigious website RenewableEnergyWorld.com, and had learned essentially everything there …
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Everyone Wants To Know: How Did the American Experiment in Democracy Go So Wrong–So Suddenly?
Eight months into this presidency, we’re under threat of nuclear war and we have lethally violent Nazis marching in our streets, two phenomena so shocking that they’ve relegated the dozens of other unfolding catastrophes (like the demise of environmental regulations …
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A Different Way To Deal with the World’s Scummiest People
Here’s my first-ever attempt at a meme. Now, it’s not lost on me that good memes don’t need explanations, but I have to set the context for this. It’s a conversation with a friend in which I advocate ignoring the …
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In the Energy Industry and Elsewhere, We’re Surrounded by BS
I get a real charge out of obviously disingenuous remarks. Yesterday we had Donald Trump’s thanking Vladimir Putin for expelling 755 members of the U.S. state department from Russia, on the basis that this will reduce the U.S. federal government’s …
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Which Way with the Coal Industry?
A commenter asked for my viewpoints on the coal industry, while claiming, incorrectly, that it’s supported by everyone except environmentalists who are “extremist and idealist.” Here goes: The first thing to understand about the coal industry is that it’s small …
Testing Rule of Law in American Democracy, Given the Coming “Fire and Fury”
Per yesterday’s Writer’s Almanac: On this day in 1974, Richard Nixon officially resigned from the presidency.
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: You Can Predict the Future of the Energy Industry
Question: Who said the following, and when did he/she say it? When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic …
