While the headlines often focus on environmental impact of huge industrial projects, more and more homeowners are getting increasingly concerned about their homes’ environmental footprints. (more…)
A popular song from the 1980s began, “I believe the children are our future…” Wouldn’t you like to interview the lyricist and ask his reasoning? He might have thought: well, at first I wrote, “I believe that the old people are our future,” but then I realized, well, no, the old people are going to be dead soon, so I’m going to go with the children. (more…)
“This would be funny if it weren’t so tragic”–a refrain that we hear a great deal.
Some people are laughing anyway, tragedy or no. Take the guy who created the meme here as an example. And he’s right: that really is some freaking poetry.
Re: the meme here, a friend writes, “An opinion not-so-humbly offered up 70-odd years ago by a guy who spoke with some authority on this matter.”
Patton had never seen stupid like it exists in 2019’s America. (more…)
I had to laugh when I saw this thing on Mitt Romney the other day: “The president shapes the public character of the nation. Trump’s character falls short.” (more…)
To be sure, there are dozens of different metrics we can use to gauge the well-being of the American democracy. Is there transparency in government? Honesty and integrity? Compassion for the people whose lives it affects? Does big money seem to be dominating the law-making process? (more…)
My colleague Jon LeSage, who writes the Green Auto Digest, provides the world an extremely valuable service–at absolutely no cost. It’s essentially everything you need to know about the progress that electric transportation and other alt-fueled vehicles are making, including all market entrants, sales volumes, driver feedback, etc. (more…)
2250 megawatt coal-fired power plant
Question: What are the three most dangerous effects to human health that derive from ingesting/inhaling the mercury that gets into the food supply and atmosphere from coal plant emissions?
Here’s an article in which legendary environmentalist Bill McKibben likens the war on climate change to a world war in the military sense, and discusses the parallels between fighting Hitler and preventing climate catastrophe. The imperative to win WW2 was so compelling that we as a civilization had no qualms about making huge sacrifices to make it happen, and McKibben claims the same urgency exists here. (more…)
There will come a time at which I’m no longer on this planet and this whole insanity that is the present-day United States is put back in order. (Actually, the former is a certainty, while the latter is speculation.)
In any case, I will leave behind loved ones and many acquaintances, some close, some distant, and it is my desire to let them know what stance I took with Trump, and that I worked hard to keep the damage to a minimum. (more…)
