A friend asks, “If you’re looking to add cleantech stock to your portfolio, is there anything to buy beyond Tesla Inc. (TESLA)? Are there any other decent cleantech investment opportunities?” I would simply refer you to 2GreenEnergy colleague Dr. …
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Stephen Hawking’s Harrowing View of Human Civilization
If you want to hear that this is the most frightening time in U.S. history, you can simply Google it, and read any of the 5.6 million articles posted on the subject. But if you want to hear it from …
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We’re Writing and Calling our Representatives in Congress, Right?
Like most of the people reading this post, I write and call my congresspeople frequently, requesting/demanding one thing or another. Here’s the letter I got back from the newly elected U.S. representative from my district in California, Salud Carbajal (for whom …
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Tagged with: right-wing Supreme Court
Pope Francis: Jesus Doesn’t Like Hypocrisy
There has never been a more politically involved leader of the Catholic Church than Pope Francis, and, the same time, anyone who chided his followers as ferociously. Francis points out that, to Jesus, there is no greater sin than hypocrisy, …
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Retired General: Trump’s Plan to Eliminate PBS Weakens America
It may not come as news that educated people make better decisions in the voting booth on all matters, including national security. That’s certainly the viewpoint of retired four-star U.S. Army General Stanley McChrystal (currently a professor at Yale). In …
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How Much Power Does Trump Wield To Create Environmental Damage?
As reported by Green Tech Media: President Trump issued an executive order today to dismantle the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan — a policy designed to curb carbon emissions from new and existing power plants by accelerating the adoption …
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Tagged with: accelerating the adoption of lower-polluting energy resources, Clean Power Plan (CPP), curb carbon emissions, eliminates use of the EPA’s “social cost of carbon”, energy independence, executive order dismantle the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan, Green Tech Media, lifting the freeze on federal coal leasing, long-term negative consequences of carbon emissions, moratorium on federal coal leasing, review of methane and hydraulic fracturing restrictions
With the U.S. at a Precipice, Here Are a Few Things To Hope For
Frequent commenter and ever-thoughtful gentleman “Breath on the Wind” reacted to yesterday’s post “A Pair of Notes on Trump” as follows: Is there a way forward? Here’s what I’m hoping, my friend:
A Pair of Notes on Trump
A reader notes: Trump is not the entire problem. Oh, I totally admit that Trump isn’t the entire problem; in fact, I view him as a symptom of the problem that started here when the neoliberal movement began about 40 …
Market Euphoria Overshadowed By Concern
The stock market has responded quite well to Trump’s removal of environmental regulations. But it appears that the initial glee may be replaced with grave concern, and many economists warn of a serious correction. What’s the issue?
Trying To Define Modernity
I have a theory called the “bifurcation of talent and resources,” meaning the relatively few good things around us are getting better, and the relatively plentiful things around us (e.g., the entirety of the U.S. federal government, corporate business ethics, …
