Anyone could surmise that climate change could lengthen and exacerbate allergy seasons. But did you know that rice loses vitamins in a carbon-rich environment — a potentially serious health concern for the 600 million people world-wide whose diet consists mostly of rice? (more…)
The evisceration of the Environmental Protection Agency continues to become even more extreme. It doesn’t help that the EPA is run by a man who’s spent his entire career promoting coal, but it gets far, far worse. (more…)
Right after the inception of 2GreenEnergy almost exactly 10 years ago, I made a few clean energy infographics and promoted them, especially for use in schools.
I never did one on climate change–and I’m glad I didn’t, now that I’ve seen this masterpiece. (more…)
The sign here hasn’t tolerated Santa Barbara’s seaside weather too well; the top-most section in Spanish is mostly peeled away, and the bottom, in Arabic, is splashed with mud. I present it nonetheless, to make the point that the people here tend to be kind and gentle, not to mention intelligent and well-educated. (more…)
It’s shocking how little most Americans know about cities outside the U.S. The Russian city of Arkhangel’sk has a population of more the 350,000, roughly the size of Anaheim, CA; New Orleans, LA; St. Paul, MN, and Cincinnati, OH…..yet I doubt that one person in a thousand here has ever heard of it; I certainly hadn’t. (more…)
When analyzing Tesla’s outselling Porsche on the Continent, one could say that the latter is a brand of car whose bloom is off the rose. Far off. It was fashionable in the 1980, at least in California, to show off your Porsche on our enormous network of freeways. As suggested in the photo here, guys bought them to attract (shallow) girls, and presumably had great success. (more…)
The chart below staggers the mind, if only insofar as it makes us think about the $6 trillion we’ve spent in Iraq and Afghanistan, and what we could have done with that money. (more…)
In a ruling last week, King County Washington Superior Court Judge Timothy Bradshaw found that “Comcast violated the Consumer Protection Act more than 445,000 times when it charged tens of thousands of Washingtonians for its Service Protection Plan without their consent.” Each wrongful monthly charge was a separate violation, so, in most cases, there were multiple violations per customer. (more…)