We learned last year that mayors of coastal cities San Francisco and Oakland, CA are suing the oil companies for lying about their role in causing climate change, and the resultant rise in sea levels that are forcing their cities to spend millions of dollars on sea walls and other devices to prevent flooding. (more…)
In response to my bearish post the other day on vehicle-to-grid, Gary Tulie writes this terse note: A project was recently launched in the UK to install 1000 vehicle to grid capable chargers.
There is no doubt that a clean energy future will rely on the confluence of a number of different technologies, all developing and adding value to one another. We need to consider: (more…)
I’ll keep this short, as I don’t want to gild the lily; the amazing Gus Speth nailed it. We either reverse this trend toward tribalism and selfishness, and learn to work together as a species, or we’re cooked. (Larger version below.) (more…)
An article in GreenTech Media this morning asks why most of the countries in Southeast Asia are lagging behind the rest of the world in the deployment of renewable energy. I skipped it. The developing world doesn’t have the cash (by definition) and most of those governments are even more corrupt than the U.S.; they pay even less attention to the welfare of their people than the U.S. Congress pays to Americans’, and that’s saying a lot. (more…)
In my post Understanding EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, I pointed out that, unlike his predecessor, Gina McCarthy, Pruitt is extremely secretive in his activities. I went on to use Occam’s Razor to explain this phenomenon: Pruitt’s job is to provide favorable conditions for corporate polluters, especially the oil companies, by aggressively despoiling the environment…..and thus we hate his guts. I went on to suggest that Pruitt is in the top five most hated people in the country. (more…)
Never has a debate been more widespread and divisive than that of climate change. Not a day goes by that there isn’t something on the news related to it in some way or other. (more…)
The last post that was written here on John Paul Stevens was published on the occasion of his retirement from the U.S. Supreme Court in 2010; I certainly didn’t anticipate another–until this stunner. (more…)
Here’s a fairly detailed article describing how Scott Pruitt, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is attacking journalists and stifling the media’s attempts to report on the core actions that the EPA is taking to roll back regulations put in place to keep our skies and waterways clean, suggesting that this is a parallel war to the one Trump is waging on the press by insulting media outlets, withholding information, and flouting public records requests. (more…)
The March for Life and the debate over gun control is part of a much larger phenomenon that defines the zeitgeist of this phase in American history, which could be summed up as, “We Call BS.” People of conscience, young and old alike (though mostly young), are simply refusing to let this country disintegrate into mayhem that consists of gun violence, bigotry, misogyny, ignorance, racial injustice, radical income inequality, and perpetual war. (more…)
Technology has now emerged as a new dominance in the world. There is no doubt that we all can’t survive without smart technology, apps, software, and fast transportation facilities in this 21st century. (more…)
