Question: How many people from across Europe gathered near the Hambacher Forest in western Germany on Saturday to defend the area from the expansion of coal-fired energy and demand much more ambitious climate action?
Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. (more…)
Every year in the United States, 20 million mattresses end up in landfills. To put this into perspective, that amount of mattresses could circle the earth. (more…)
It’s obvious that the Trump administration has been great for billionaires, corporate polluters, weapons manufacturers, evangelical Christians, and a few privileged sexual abusers, including the president himself. What may not be so obvious is that another set of beneficiaries include hate groups. (more…)
Question: How many electronic devices are connected to the Internet? What percentage of the U.S. total energy consumption does this represent?
Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. (more…)
As I’ve mentioned, 2GreenEnergy super-supporter Gary Tulie made huge contributions to my most recent book. Here, he writes from his home in Buckinghamshire, England: (more…)
Whether you want to sell your property or just improve it so that you can enjoy your time here even more, sustainable outdoor home improvements are the best way to go. These will definitely attract everybody’s attention and make your house the talk of the own. (more…)
Whatever could this gentleman mean?
Well, perhaps it’s a reference to the fact that the will of the people has exactly zero bearing on the way those people are governed.
Over 90% of American voters favor universal background checks for prospective gun owners, but this concept is so taboo that even a discussion of the subject on the floors of Congress is impossible. (more…)
Of the many ways to invalidate a scientific claim, by far the best and fastest is to show that it violates the laws of physics. Here’s a concept for offshore wind turbines that claims to be three times more efficient than current technology
. Given that what we have now extracts more than 80% of the theoretically available energy from the wind, we need look no further at the concept itself.
I don’t know if this will become a thing, but it’s certainly what I want for my own body when I no longer require it. It’s a small contribution, but why not make it, if you don’t have a better idea?
My current request is a mushroom suit, but I think I like this even better.
This meme, particularly item #8, reminds me of a radio show on which I was a guest a few years ago. At the onset of the broadcast, the host asked me for a good working definition of sustainability, and I explained that it means fulfilling our civilization’s needs here and now without compromising future generations’ ability to meet theirs.
