According to this article in Forbes, the satellites that monitor the disappearance of Arctic ice are in the process of dying, and, predictably, the funds required to keep this system running effectively are blocked in the U.S. Congress. My colleague …
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Changes in Our Civilization Often Start with Outrage
Frequent commenter MarcoPolo writes: I can’t help wondering if your passionate crusade against “big oil” isn’t counter-productive….The average person doesn’t want an existing crusade, filled with revolutionary risk and perils. Indignation at injustice is and has always been a key …
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We Want a Sustainable Civilization, But There’s a Catch
According to the Writer’s Almanac: It’s the birthday of novelist Joseph Heller (books by this author), born in Brooklyn (1923) and best known for the novel Catch-22 (1961), about an American bombardier named John Yossarian. During World War II, Yossarian …
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Cost-Effective Renewable Energy Is Today’s Reality
Here’s something I wish every person on Earth could understand, i.e., how very, very close we are to a total migration from fossil fuels into renewable energy. This guy, in particular, speaks about the continuing free-fall of solar PV prices …
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Broken Educational System Underlies Apathy on Clean Energy, Climate Change
Wow, did this guy nail it or what? And here’s another piece on our broken educational system and some related issues.
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Improvements in Solar PV Come in Many Dimensions
We all know that our world is becoming increasingly capable of migrating away from fossil fuels, and the plummeting costs of renewable energy are the chief driver. But what factors lie behind this declining cost structure? Actually, there are several. …
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Sustainable Fishing and Civil Disobedience
As you read this post, the crew aboard the Greenpeace ship “Esperanza” (or “hope”) is busily destroying fishing lines that catch tuna for Walmart in a most barbaric fashion, killing obscene numbers of other aquatic animals. Is what Greenpeace is doing …
Impressive Pace of Development in Hydrokinetics
I’m rooting hard for my friends at hydrokinetic start-up Littoral Power Solutions to develop their product quickly and get into the game while there is still time. There is never a good time for dawdling in the renewable energy industry, …
How the Media Is Ruining the United States
Here’s a video I put on my Facebook page, with introduction: Those seeking to know why things in our country are so screwed up need look no further than this. My old friend Steve Vachss writes: This woman makes some …
Ethical Handling of Refugees Is Essential to Global Sustainability
Here, Peter Sutherland (pictured), Special Representative for the UN Secretary-General for International Migration, speaks on the moral issues surrounding the processing of refugees. IMO, no one has ever said something like this in a clearer and more compelling way. Curiously, the …
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