If I asked you to tell me what was happening in the arctic, you might respond that it’s melting–and you wouldn’t be wrong. Yet what’s happening in addition to that is just as positive as the region’s melting is alarming. (more…)
Here’s a little video that pokes fun at young people for not voting. Extremely well done.
Virtually anything we might want: money out of politics, affordable healthcare, quality education, social programs, women’s reproductive rights, environmental stewardship, peace agreements held intact, etc.–are all within our reach. The only question is how loudly we make our voices heard…and that starts at the ballot box.
Question: Look closely at the pic here (larger one below). Why do these Pennsylvania-based employees of Shell Oil look so somber, considering that the U.S. President is wearing a smile?
Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. (more…)
At left we have a beautiful but grim reminder: What have we become?
We’ve gotten good at so many things: building shareholder value, accumulating stuff we don’t need, and walling ourselves off (both figuratively and literally).
But we’ve lost so much in the process. We’re still human beings, but so much of our core humanity seems to have vanished recently.
We were all so surprised by the appalling popularity of Donald Trump, a vulgar, greedy pig of a man. But is it really such a shock?
A reader submits:
(We) conservatives can’t understand the attitude that our borders should be open to everyone who wants to come here, whenever they wish. We consider that a country without borders is not a country at all. (more…)
The only good thing one can say about the ever-growing world of gadgetry is that some of these contraptions run on solar energy, adding a dimension of cool to a universe of thingamajigs that would otherwise be fairly uninteresting. (more…)
The other day I had the good fortune to run into Charles Wells, CTO of Pxise (pronounced “pice”), whose breakthrough micro-grid technology has the potential to effect huge changes in the provision of electrical energy around the globe. (more…)
Even without the greed depicted in this wonderful illustration, it’s questionable whether humankind can arrive at some sort of equilibrium with nature. We believe that, if we wanted to, we could consume resources sustainably here and now, in such a way that future generations are able to meet their needs. (more…)
Bald Eagle in flight, Alaska, USA
Folks say that Trump is capricious and unpredictable, but isn’t he really quite the opposite? Virtually every day, we read an announcement of something that is totally offensive to the well-being of the people of Earth; you can almost set your watch by it. (more…)
One of the chapters of my most recent book, “Bullish on Renewable Energy,” covers the promise of advanced nuclear, and thorium in particular. If we can make this happen, which appears likely over the next couple of decades, it will obsolete most other sources of baseload electrical generation–certainly coal. A few things to like: (more…)
