Plant Trees
Here’s a post with a dual purpose:
1) Planting trees really IS a fabulous way to sequester carbon. (more…)
Check Out a Talk on “Holistic Land Management”
Readers who happen to be local to Santa Barbara, CA will want to check out a talk that my colleague Eric Adler is giving on April 3rd on the fascinating topic of holistic land management (see poster below). (more…)Correlation Does Not Imply Causation
The meme here implies that the presence of hate speech caused the increase in hateful behavior. Yet it’s also possible that Trump chose places to hold rallies in places that happened to be showing increasing susceptibility to his hateful rhetoric. (more…)
Notes on Tesla, From Tech Maven Fritz Maffry
Here are some interesting updates on Telsa, from our Kansas City, MO-based colleague Fritz Maffry. – ed
The Perfect Storm (more…)
So Long, ARPA-E
Trump’s “Budget for a Better America” is great if you’re part of the military-industrial complex, as it calls for a huge increase in “defense” spending and almost $9 billion to build (at least a piece of) a wall on the southern border. But it’s terrible for essentially everyone else, and especially those with lungs, as it slashes spending for environmental regulation, and economic stimuli for the development of new, clean technology. (more…)
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Taking Climate Change Into Consideration
From the Associated Press: A judge blocked oil and gas drilling across almost 500 square miles in Wyoming and said the U.S. government must consider climate change impacts more broadly as it leases huge swaths of public land for energy exploration. (more…)
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What Does New Zealand’s Ban on Assault Rifles Mean in America? Zippo.
Lots of people are asking themselves how it’s possible for New Zealand to ban assault rifles in a matter of days after the slaughter of 50 Muslims as they worshiped in their mosques, when such a change in laws is a political impossibility here, regardless of the incredible frequency and horrifying body-count of our gun-related tragedies . Here’s a thought: (more…)
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Death Penalty on Its Way Out
On Wednesday, March 13, California Governor Gavin Newsom made history by announcing that he would not allow the state to execute anyone on his watch. “Our death penalty system has been – by any measure – a failure. And as governor, I will not oversee the execution of any individual,” he said in his announcement. (more…)
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Renewable Energy Doesn’t Always Follow the Rules
It seems that everywhere you look in the U.S. you see partisan politics. If Obama did it, it needs to go. If Trump supporters like it, it’s crap. That’s why it’s so nice to find a place where this rule simply doesn’t exist–and especially when that place is so unlikely: the blood-red city of Georgetown, Texas. (more…)
Trump and Democracy
As you watch this video in which Ronald Reagan’s daughter Patti Davis discusses Trump, consider this:
• Everyone whose family that is even remotely connected to the U.S. presidency–past, present and future–will rue the day Trump took office, and, ironically, this will apply to Trump’s family at least as much as the descendants of James Monroe, et al. The institution has been indelibly tainted, as the very word “Trump” will be forever associated with the drubbing of what at one time were core American values: truth, honesty, compassion and fairness. (more…)
