8/26/11 1:56:14 PM -- Music Director Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conclude their performance of Strauss' Death and Transfiguration during their first concert on tour. © Todd Rosenberg Photography 2011

8/26/11 1:56:14 PM — Music Director Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conclude their performance of Strauss’ Death and Transfiguration during their first concert on tour. © Todd Rosenberg Photography 2011

Here’s an article that suggests the forces of pure market economics are all that are necessary to replace gas and diesel powered cars and trucks with electric vehicles. Of course, this is the thesis of most of what I’ve written over the last couple of years, e.g., Bullish on Renewable Energy. (more…)

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16142965_1396047893821594_6436324393683709053_nHere’s a note to the commenters who say that I seem to write an awful lot of “anti-Trump rants” lately.

Yes, a lot of my recent pieces have been “anti-Trump,” but it’s important to point out that they’re really about the entire phenomenon. While, of course, Trump himself is at the center, there’s so much more to this whole regrettable period of U.S. history; it comes along with components that enabled it to happen in the first place, and others consequences that follow from it, together making the whole “Trump thing” much more terrifying for the U.S.–and the world population–than the mere presidency itself. (more…)

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swift4Home renovations don’t only require much time and effort but they also require much money to spend.

We all want to look our house better so we allocate a bigger amount of our monthly budget for our savings to cover the renovation cost. (more…)

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banno-attacks-mediaAs Trump’s antics whipsaw the nation’s attention with the violence of a cat 5 hurricane between transgenders in the military (today), insulting the Boy Scouts (yesterday), Kushner’s bogus testimony on Russia (the day before), and the ceaseless march of daily crap that preceded that, more people are asking themselves: Is it possible all this theater is in place merely to obscure a subtle and perhaps even more terrifying agenda? (more…)

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inverlochy-castle-scotland-pGary Tulie, 2GreenEnergy super-supporter from Buckinghamshire, England (pictured), sent me this piece called Air Quality Plan: Diesel and petrol cars banned by 2040, £255m to tackle pollution blackspots.  He writes: Hi Craig. The UK is to end sale of new diesel and petrol cars from 2040. 

Great, Gary.  Thanks very much.  Progressive environmental policies like this are being implemented all over the developed world, except in the U.S., of course.  However, I believe that the pendulum that has swung so far in the direction of the right wing, with its complete disregard for environmental responsibility, is about to head the other way. (more…)

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Tesla-Model-S-Test-Drive-Tesla-Love-Girl-on-the-Bike-2The long-awaited winners for this year’s Green Car Awards have been announced. It’s been a long journey; and at this point it shouldn’t surprise you that people know what they want. The Washington Auto Show held the conference announcing the winner. It’s the perfect illustration of how far the eco-friendly auto industry has come. There’s a clear desire for vehicles that are more environmentally-friendly and efficient. However, the average consumer also wants a car that’s luxurious on the inside; a car that looks nice and is extremely fast. Let us have a closer look at the 5 winners that managed to stand above the crowd in the eco-friendly auto spectrum. (more…)

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184b29a962681def18b06d59f349bdd2--aldous-huxley-quotes-grey-quotesFrom the Writer’s Almanac:  In 1931, (Aldous Huxley) began work on a novel that he intended to be a light look at what the future might hold – a satiric response to the utopian novels of H.G. Wells. He wrote the book in four months. It was Brave New World (1932), and it ended up being a darker book than he’d planned. (more…)

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Sunverge-image-1200x700Greentech Media is one of the most prominent and widely trusted voices in cleantech, which is why the departure of Editor-at-Large Eric Wesoff is such big news.

At this point, the magnificently competent Editor-in-Chief Stephen Lacey, long-time colleague and 2GreenEnergy supporter, will head up GTM. (more…)

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coda-ev-01I have a great deal of respect for Greentech Media and its reporters’ capacity to get into finely nuanced areas.  Yet here’s one that’s anything but subtle: Yep, It’s Still Incredibly Hard to Build an Electric Car Start-Up.  As Bob Dylan put it: “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” (more…)

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climate-change-image_tcm1369-471790Here’s a scholarly article published a few days ago in Science Magazine on the cost of climate change, whose authors, from the Stanford School of Public Policy and the Nicholas Institute at Duke University, have taken into account a great number of different variables and built complex modeling tools to assess their impact on our civilization. (more…)

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