By now, a few important things have been established about the U.S. economy: • Due to falling demand, jobs in coal mining are not coming back, regardless of the completeness with which environmental regulations are gutted. • Jobs in solar …
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Being an environmentalist is one of the greatest things anyone can do with their life. If you love our planet so much that you have incorporated new practices into your daily rhythm, such as reducing your use of plastics, making …
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As we’ve often discussed here, information and communications technology (ICT) is one of the main drivers of the rapid migration to renewable energy. There are hundreds of different reasons for this, but here’s one that you’ll find the moment you …
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Though this portrait might suggest otherwise, Bill McKibben may be the least militaristic person you’ll ever meet. He’s dedicated his entire adult life to establishing a sustainable way of life for everyone here on Earth, both now and into the …
A colleague asked me for my take on solar roadways, and this article in particular. I respond: Well, this is pretty clearly fake news. The solar panels in the entire roadway would have only powered a water fountain?
Chris Hedges is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, professor at Princeton University, author of several New York Times best-sellers, and Presbyterian minister, who’s written extensively on democracy and fascism, and the delicate balance that exists between the two. Here’s an …
I urge everyone, especially all Americans, to check out this incredible eight-minute video, featuring U.S ranking member of the U.S. House Intelligence committee, Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA — pictured), laying out the evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and …
Frequent commenter Brian McGowan sent me this delightful little article, for those of you who, like me, thought that coal mines could serve no useful purpose in the context of 21st Century energy.
Here’s a cool little video that I post largely because it serves as a microcosm of human ingenuity. How many different ways can you invent to solve the same problem (in this case, extracting the kinetic energy out of moving …
It appears that the opponents of renewable energy, e.g., the Koch Brothers, have won the battle but lost the war. Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPSs), the mechanism that many people thought would win the day for solar and wind, have been …
