As it gets hot during the summer, most homeowners look for cost-savings methods. Attempts to lower your utility bills while staying cool at home can be frustrating. Review these ideas to stay comfortable while reducing the bills for keeping your home cool. (more…)
Urban architecture has set sustainability as one of its most important objectives, which is most perfectly reflected in the concept of sustainable buildings. In fact, sustainable buildings are no longer just a concept, but a world-acknowledged practice based on eco-friendly principles and environmentally responsible construction. (more…)
As shown here, the past 18 years haven’t been kind to investors in U.S. industry icon General Electric–but exactly what went wrong? The common wisdom is that the enterprise was simply so diverse and far-flung that it had become unmanageable. (more…)
In order to keep the electorate here in the U.S. ignorant on the subject of climate change, Senate Republicans have taken a bold new approach: stop an attempt to educate TV meteorologists. (more…)
Most adults, as well as children, tend to throw used paper in the dustbin and then completely forget about it. So what? It’s just a small piece of paper one might say. (more…)
Anyone reading these words already knows where I stand on Trump’s obsession with resuscitating the coal industry. Why would he:
• Deliberately inflict damage to the lungs of everyone living on Earth? (more…)
Today, thousands of tons of garbage heads to landfills across the country every week. While some garbage is an inevitable part of life, many people do not realize the effect they could have on the amount of waste in the United States simply by making a few easy changes. (more…)
A burger made from Cultured Beef
If you’re going to kill cows for beef, there probably isn’t a huge ethical issue with using their hides for leather shoes, car seats, furniture, or whatever. But what happens when the consumption of beef falls precipitously? This is almost certain to happen, due to a variety of causes, e.g., human health, environmental stewardship, or animal cruelty–all coupled with plant-based meats like the Impossible Burger and Beyond Meat that are almost indistinguishable from slaughtered cows. (more…)
When I wrote Renewable Energy–Facts and Fantasies in 2010, solar thermal (aka concentrated solar power or CSP) was a big deal, largely because of the way it readily lent itself to solving the intermittency issue via energy storage as heat, in molten salt). (more…)
Within a few days of Trump’s ascendancy to power, many people started to notice fascist/authoritarian tendencies: nepotism, condemning the press, bans on religious sects, scapegoating minorities, the encouraging of violence, appointing cronies to cabinet posts, anti-intellectualism, fraudulent reporting of elections, obsession with militarism and national security, bashing labor unions, interconnection of religion with government, enforced nationalism/”loyalty,” etc. (more…)
