WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 31: White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders answers reporters' questions during a news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House August 31, 2017 in Washington, DC. Sanders repeatedly refused to say if President Donald Trump had reached a decision on renewing the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

White House Press Sec. Sarah Huckabee Sanders

I spent the years from 1982 through 2008 as a business/marketing consultant, mostly serving large clients in IT and communications technology: IBM, H-P, AT&T, Microsoft, and the like.  During that time I was very dialed in to the ethos in the corporate world; though I spent my career exclusively as an entrepreneur, I formed deep personal attachments to many of my clients, and, through their eyes, I got to see precisely what “life on the inside” was like, with its demands and pressures, its mores, and the penalties it imposed on bad behavior.   (more…)

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480px-Thermohaline_Circulation_2During a wonderful, albeit too short visit with family, my brother and I were discussing the thermohaline “conveyor belt” that governs the major ocean currents. See Bill Nye’s explanation here, and graphic below. (more…)

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phinergy-1364488065Chemical reactions that release energy are called “exothermic.” For example, take the combustion of methane, where we have: CH4 + 2O2 –> CO2 + 2H2O + energy. The energy is then used to cook our food, power our vehicles, or whatever we choose. (more…)

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elephant-in-the-roomThis is the first post on 2GreenEnergy that mentions the word “impeachment,” and I present it only because it’s an elephant in the room. (more…)

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sick-child-rexA new study published in the open access journal Environmental Health reports that the U.S. has failed to ban many dangerous and toxic pesticides that are banned throughout the rest of the world, and “Science Rocks” asks, “Why has China, Brazil, and the EU all prohibited the use of these pesticides but the U.S. hasn’t?” (more…)

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yq-coal-111019_2xChina is the world’s largest consumer of coal; in fact, it consumes almost as much coal as the rest of the world combined–and, in the old days, lots of it had come via imports from the U.S.  But what happened when the trade war hit? Doesn’t everything that the American master negotiator implements improve conditions for U.S. industries? (more…)

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thoughtsprayers-690x460American life in the early 21st Century comes with some interesting paradoxes, and several of them surround law and order.

One might think, for example, that those charged with the responsibility of thwarting crime might be the most vocal advocates for gun rights.  One would be wrong.  Here’s the chief of police of the fourth largest U.S. city, Houston, instructing voters to vote out politicians whose only response to mass shootings is “thoughts and prayers.” (more…)

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make-orwell-fiction-again-hat-red_2048xThe arrest and torture of investigative journalist Ivan Golunov at the hands of Russian law enforcement, coming as it does, on the heels of the U.S.’s attempt to extradite Wikileaks’ Julian Assange and sentence him to 170+ years in prison, adds new concern about the dystopian direction in which our civilization seems to be headed.  (more…)

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coalIt would be nice to see environmentalism leading the way in the phasing out of fossil fuels in favor of renewables, though that’s not at all what we are, in fact, experiencing. (more…)

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beaver-hands-on-headHere’s a recent piece from the Sierra Club explaining how and why beavers improve every ecosystem into which they make their magnificence present. (more…)

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