….And they shall beat their swords into ploughshares.”
This familiar quote is from the Book of Isiah, and meaning, of course, that the Lord is commanding us to convert something that used to be a weapon into a tool of peace and sustainability. Of course, it could also be metaphorical, i.e., that we need to address our inclinations toward violence and reorient them towards peace and cooperation. (more…)
(Editor’s Note: Pictured–the warehouse Mueller rented to store evidence against Trump.) The push is for businesses to become more energy efficient across all industries. This has the benefit of saving you money as well as an improved image with your customer base. Most plans focus on how to make your building more efficient by working to conserve resources. This can also apply to your warehouse equipment. Here are some energy efficient solutions for your machinery. (more…)
Many people wonder why some rich people can have such remarkably callous disregard for the well-being of the planet, given that everyone, rich and poor, will suffer from the effects of climate change, air pollution, ocean acidification, loss of biodiveristy, etc. (more…)
A fellow in Sudan wrote to ask me about energy storage by compressing a large spring, pointing out, quite correctly, that the force associated with compressing a spring is a function of the distance over which the force is applied, (F = -kx), and that the work done in compressing the spring is ∫ F dx. (more…)
This short video from Yale Climate Connections provides the results of a study done on children’s health, based on tests performed on two groups of subjects: those born two years before the closing of a coal-fired power plant in China, and an otherwise identical set born a year after the closure. (more…)
I hope the 95% of the world’s population living outside the U.S. understands how deeply ashamed of our country most of us Americans are.
Before this nauseating trend, we had to embarrass ourselves by traveling around Europe with our gauche thoughtlessness and bad manners. Now we get it done without leaving our homes.
I had a sad realization when I woke up this morning, summed up in the following little story:
About 40 years ago, I played poker with a friend’s relatives, who were relatively poor and uneducated but laudably honest, hard-working, good-willed and hilariously funny working class people back in Maryland. (more…)
Below is a diagram that lays out the location and size of each of the 33 coal-fired power plants in the U.S. that will be decommissioned in the next four years. (more…)
Here, Dan Rather makes the point I’ve been trying to communicate since environmentalism started to dominate my life about 10 years ago. What exactly is the attraction of enriching oneself by ruining the quality of life for everyone living on this planet, both now and into the future? How much does that new yacht or that fifth house in Bordeaux or the Hamptons really mean to you? (more…)
This article is suggesting that the answer is yes, and obviously, I’d love to celebrate this idea. (more…)
