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…)
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…)
