A mainstay of our work here at 2GreenEnergy is finding strategic business partners for companies whose products support sustainability. One such enterprise is Century Board, which maintains a proven, proprietary process by which it takes waste streams (some of them …
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Growing Levels of Intolerance in America Mirrored Around the World
In Poland, nearly 100 municipalities, one-third of the country, a region larger than Hungary, have declared themselves to be “free of LGBT ideology.” What that means precisely is described in the article linked above. At the same time, here in …
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Tagged with: Hatred and sustainability
Africa Adds Renewables, May “Leapfrog” Over Fossil Fuel Power Plants
Since the dawn of the renewable energy age that started in the late 1990s, everyone began to hope that, as it industrialized, Africa might be able to bypass coal and natural gas-fired power plants and leapfrog directly in to solar, …
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MIT’s Look at Civilization’s Megatrends
Here are 9 top megatrends as seen by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Tagged with: climate change mitigation, climate crisis, destroying public education, massive disinformation campaigns and denial of science, sustainability means meeting our own needs in a manner in which future generations are able to meet theirs, Water a stressed resource, water shortage and drought
Bernie Will Not Improve Life for Literally Everone
The claim in the meme here is that everyone will have a better quality of life if this country shifts in the direction of democratic socialism. If that were the case, we’d already be there. The problem is that this …
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A Trump Victory in 2020 Will Require a TON of Ignorance
If Trump’s 2020 campaign is going to succeed, it will require a huge amount of ignorance, as the Republican rallying cry is aimed to convincing voters that there is no difference between a country whose government addresses its citizens’ needs …
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Tagged with: Democratic Socialism
Time: Future and Past Exist Simultaneously
As discussed before, it hasn’t been a good last 75 years for philosophers. In the middle of the 20th Century, if you wanted to know the basic nature of the universe around us, you asked a philosopher, perhaps a metaphysician; …
Electric Air Travel
According to this, Electric 19-seater commuter-class aircraft is the next big step in electric flight. The author claims that Germany is eyeing electric drive trains for short commuter flights, say 200 kilometers. Really? That’s 130 miles, which Germans do in …
Hate in America
There is no doubt that our civilization, certainly the United States, is experiencing a rise in hate at this moment, so let’s take a look at the factors that may lie behind that phenomenon. Russian involvement. All 17 U.S. intelligence …
Tagged with: destroying the environment for profit
Is Civilization Making Progress?
Below is yesterday’s “poem for the day” from Garrison Keillor’s “Writer’s Almanac.” There’s a lot to like here, but one thing that I want to comment on is “Don’t think that progress exists. It doesn’t.” Well, that’s a downer, and …
Tagged with: and the U.S. Constitution, authoritarian governments popping up all around the globe, Magna Carta, rise of tribalism, the abolition of slavery, the Age of Reason, the civil rights movement, The Enlightenment, the French Revolution, the Geneva Convention, the Renaissance, the United Nations, women's suffrage
