Water is a critical component in a lot of environmental schemes. Whether the focus is on saving it, using it better, or how it can benefit any given project, water always seems to crop up whenever environmental issues are approached. …
From Guest Blogger Izzie: Which Source of Drinking Water Is Best for the Environment? Read More »
It’s such an interesting time to be alive. The stakes are so high, and there seems to be a greater divide than ever between good and bad. Good things and people are better than they’ve been before. We have a …
A referendum on the California ballot in 2016 will provide voters the opportunity to express their rancor with respect to the dreaded Citizen’s United decision. In 2012, two other states—Colorado and Montana—ratified similar resolutions by overwhelming majorities. My prediction:
We live in a country where a sitting congressman told a crowd that evolution and the Big Bang are “lies straight from the pit of hell,” and the chairman of a senate environmental panel introduced a snowball as evidence that …
Existentialism is the concept that we live in a universe that is indifferent to our happiness and general welfare, that we are free to make our own choices, and that we are, in fact, defined by the totality of those …
We’re Alone, But Strangely Connected To One Another Read More »
In the 1960s, when the tobacco industry learned that its product caused cancer and that millions of its customers would suffer agonizing deaths as a result of smoking cigarettes, its leaders conspired to suppress this finding, so as to protect …
Big Oil, Like Big Tobacco, Faces Tough Times Ahead Read More »
Our intern, Fabio Porcu asks: I’m writing about batteries but it’s a very large topic. Do you prefer that I write about the physics behind it, or about the different technologies used today? I think this should be broken down …
Long-time reader Bill O’Hearn sent me two wonderful articles he wrote on corporate sustainability that I offer here and here. He makes some really good and unassailable points, namely, that the recent criminality in the private sector, especially the cases …
Outside of tourists, the most common thing you’ll see on the main drag in Santa Barbara (State St.) is protest marchers. In 2013, my wife, my daughter and I did our thing re: the KXL Pipeline. A less common sight: pianos. …
Keystone Pipeline Protests Aren't the Only Visible Aspect of Downtown Santa Barbara Read More »
I hope readers will check this out, especially the video at the bottom of the page. Perhaps my favorite line: “Here’s a lady with problems. I promise to fix those problems if I’m elected president with the money I received …
