Almost every day we learn about a new way in which the Trump Administration has eviscerated our nation’s capacity to safeguard its people from a certain type of environmental harm. (more…)
In addition to being extremely efficient, geothermal heating and cooling systems are also incredibly durable. With the proper maintenance, a geothermal system can easily last for well over two decades. If you are tired of dealing with skyrocketing energy bills, then it might be time to take a fresh look at this alternative form of climate control. (more…)
For those of us with lungs, it really hasn’t been a bad eight years. Though it seems like it was eons ago, it was in 2010 that the U.S. had 530 operating coal-fired power plants. Now more than half of them have been retired or committed to retire. (more…)
Have you ever wondered why there is such horrific backlash against the vast majority of climate scientists who are warning us that global warming is in the process of ruining our planet? Where did all these climate deniers comes from, and what’s their motive? (more…)
When complete, this freshly vandalized billboard in Northern California will read, “We make kids disappear. — ICE.” (more…)
Last Wednesday we said goodbye to the law that was enacted to protect the oceans after the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon disaster. Like essentially every other piece of environmental legislation that came from the Obama era, under the Trump administration, it’s either already gone or on its way out. (more…)
Question: Santa Barbara is not the only city in the world know for its quirky parades, but its Summer Solstice Parade may be the most whimsical on Earth. (more…)
From this morning’s Daily Stoic:
Around 1998, Miep Gies supplied a small note to be appended to the end of a forthcoming biography of Anne Frank. It was completely fitting that Gies have the last word on Anne Frank, given all that she had risked and sacrificed between 1942 and 1944 to provide for and supply Frank’s family as they hid from Nazis in an attic in the Netherlands.
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Everyone in America who’s trying to pay attention to the world around him is working hard to make sense of a nonsensical situation. Current events in U.S. politics are happening so fast that none of us has the mental bandwidth to deal with every absurdity hurling at us at 150 MPH on a daily basis. (more…)
I don’t think I know anyone stupid enough to pay $160 for a device that requires a gushing stream or a stiff, steady breeze (and the time to position it properly) to do the job performed by a $25 piece of solar PV. And I’d like to keep it that way; if you bought one of these, please don’t tell me. 🙂
Those who spend days at a time exploring extremely deep caves or the arctic in the dead of winter can get a $5 hand crank charger, or $15 for a deluxe model.
