There is no doubt that electric transportation will make terrific headway over the coming couple of decades. Here, Forbes suggests that one-quarter of the cars on the road in 2040 will be EVs. Fair enough. But the author goes on …
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As pictured here, the Chinese province of Qinghai used only wind, solar and hydroelectric power to supply its population of 5.8 million for seven consecutive days.
Whether or not they’re keeping track of the results, most Americans have heard of the initiative aimed at restoring the health of the Chesapeake Bay–reducing the levels of pollution and building back the ecosystems.
Frequent commenter MarcoPolo responds to my suggestion that unbridled consumerism is unsustainable, and that it’s particularly atrocious that so much of it is focused on items that serve little if any practical value. He writes:
Charles and David Koch are well known for their radical libertarian agenda, i.e., their effort to rid the U.S. of social security as well as public support of education, healthcare, technology research, transportation, and the arts. Now, if their advocacy …
The EPA is abolishing a rule that protects (or protected) clean drinking water for 117 million people. This is (was) the Clean Water Rule, the result of more than 400 meetings with stakeholders and a review of more than 1 …
One of the world’s top accounting and consulting firms, Ernst and Young is a venerated name if there ever were one. And, as is typical for large business consulting concerns, they seem to do an awful lot of market research …
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The “Climate One” conference in San Francisco is a day chock-full of interesting and compelling ideas about humankind’s behavior vis-a-vis the environment, and what can be done to improve this relationship. Did you know, for instance, that, on average, an …
Unless I’m mistaken, it was Arlene Allen, at the University of California at Santa Barbara, who left the very first comment on this blog when it came on line almost exactly eight years ago, and I’ve been eagerly anticipating her …
In response to my post suggesting that we live in Orwellian times, Jeff Covel quotes me: “What exactly happens when facts cease to matter? Will we all wind up in a fascist civilization” and then writes: I think not, Craig. Trump’s …
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