Frequent commenter and senior energy analyst Glenn Doty writes: The goal should be to direct money in a way that it generates the greatest bang-for-the-buck, and the direction of money should not be limited in any way by the type of …
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The All New "Energy Fact Check"
For many years I’ve been promoting EnergyFactCheck.Org as the best and most comprehensive source for answers to the thousands of questions that can be posed on the migration to renewables. Now, the good got even better; last week, the site …
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From Guest Blogger Izzie: Environmental Aspects of Showers vs. Baths–Myths and Facts
The question, what is better for the environment, a bath or a shower, has been a constant subject for discussion and the reason for many arguments since the minute showers were invented. It seems everyone has an opinion on which …
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New E-bike Company Looking to Crowdfunding To Put It Into Business
Here’s a post that’s nominally about electric bikes, but more directly about crowdfunding. These folks (actually, it looks like one 20-year-old kid) want to raise $70,000 from investors so they can sell an e-bike that’s “affordable, fun, fast, and will …
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Fossil Fuels Will Soon Be Obsolete
A reader offered this quote from Buckminster Fuller: “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” So true.
From Guest Blogger Damian: Plastic Materials and Our Environment–What We Can Do Better
Somewhere around five billion plastic bags are used each year around the globe. Plastic materials are products that have made our busy on the go lives much easier and we have become dependent on them. As quickly as they appear in …
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Frm Guest Blogger Jenny Richards: Facts on Eco Finance and Its Implementation
Eco finance is actually a phenomenon that is known to integrate the financial world and the business world with eco-friendly behaviour. This is supposed to be an arena involving several participants including business and individual consumers, investors, producers and even …
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Tesla Tackles Global Warming
A dear friend from the southern part of Germany writes: I thought this article might interest you. Somebody’s gotta do it! America’s Congress is ignoring one of the biggest problems of all time, global warming/climate change. America’s entrepreneurs, however, are not. …
Heartland Institute Is Always On the Attack
It’s been a while since I wrote something on the brazen evil represented by the Koch-funded Heartland Institute, so I thought it might be time to rectify that. Linked below is an article that will make your skin crawl.
Sustainability and the Human Diet
I want to take a moment and introduce readers to the thoughts of J. Morris Hicks. As you’ll see in his remarks linked here and pasted below, the fellow has undergone a wonderful evolution in his work with respect to …
