It’s common knowledge that numerous justice agencies, as well as the portion of the general public that stays abreast of these matters, is not at all happy with ExxonMobil. In particular, we have litigation coming down on the oil giant based on its conspiracy to deceive the investment community as to the massively negative impacts that climate change would have on its financial well-being. (more…)
It’s a shame that we need government to force us to do what’s right; ideally, businesses wouldn’t sell things that wreck the planet, and consumers wouldn’t buy them (and then litter them across the countryside). Having said that, we should all applaud edicts like this one, Maine’s ban on single-use foam containers, as the state legislature found that it was the only option available for them to protect their environment. Nice job.
Pictured and quoted here, Rabindranath Tagore “was a Bengali polymath, poet, musician, and artist from the Indian subcontinent. He reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.”
I’m going to take a moment and let what he wrote here (at left) sink in. (more…)
Here’s a discussion on the subject of electric transportation. My friend Paul Scott, co-founder of Plug-In America, posted the photo here of two Yemenis, and challenged us to stop funding the brutality and terrorism that is the stock in trade of Saudi Arabia, simply by ceasing to buy gasoline. He writes: (more…)
At a dinner party a few years ago, I happened to be seated next to a senior scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL, in Pasadena, CA) who led a team of scientists that measures the declining thickness of the Greenland Ice Sheet. (more…)
If you’re tiring of my posts on asinine/fraudulent renewable energy concepts, skip this one. Contrast this water wheel concept in hydrokinetics against the photo above and see if you can see any difference.
I love inventors who use terms like kilowatts per hour, the equivalent of miles per hour per hour.
It’s common for Americans traveling abroad to return home wondering why the U.S. has no high-speed rail. At 300 MPH, a trip from Los Angeles to the East Coast would take less than eight restful hours, free of turbulence, without requiring passengers to arrive 90 minutes before take-off, to suffer the indignities of TSA and a 30-minute boarding process–and all without the disruption of weather delays. Sounds pretty good, doesn’t it?
If you Google this subject, you’ll notice that plenty has been written on it, but, in truth, no one knows the true and complete answer. (more…)
Today we learn that, for the third consecutive year, the Trump administration has proposed the elimination of federal funding for public television and radio. It’s hard to know what to make of this. It’s possible that the president understands that his base doesn’t care too much for public television. It’s also reasonable to assume that Trump doesn’t stand to gain by programming that provides Americans an education in history. (more…)
Each of the 200+ sovereign nations that represent organized society on Earth have different histories, cultural values, and power structures that have evolved over hundreds, in some cases even thousands of years. (more…)
Love this rock art! Which reminded me that the Earth Day celebration here in Santa Barbara is a great place for young and old alike. I always brought my kids when they were little.
