A recent survey showed that Australians spend around four hours a day watching TV, which means that one month every year we are glued to the box. When you consider that fact alongside the one that suggests that we are buying more TV sets than ever, you can understand why people are concerned about a potential increase in energy consumption. (more…)
Frequent commenter and ever-thoughtful gentleman “Breath on the Wind” reacted to yesterday’s post “A Pair of Notes on Trump” as follows: Is there a way forward?
Here’s what I’m hoping, my friend: (more…)
Increasing your corporate energy efficiency and environmental responsibility shows your commitment to the future. Businesses with an Earth-friendly code of operations are often seen favorably by the public. Keep in mind these four ways of becoming more energy-efficient and environmentally responsible in your business operations.
Having an Energy Audit (more…)
A reader notes: Trump is not the entire problem.
Oh, I totally admit that Trump isn’t the entire problem; in fact, I view him as a symptom of the problem that started here when the neoliberal movement began about 40 years ago. It was a five-step process: (more…)
The stock market has responded quite well to Trump’s removal of environmental regulations. But it appears that the initial glee may be replaced with grave concern, and many economists warn of a serious correction. What’s the issue? (more…)
It seems that everything is about eco-friendliness these days – a huge portion of our population is promoting this way of life. And who can blame them? Long enough have the people of Earth turned a blind eye to our planet’s problems! Seeing how the green mentality has managed to slowly seep into every aspect of our daily lives, let’s talk about finding ways to be eco-friendly when moving to a new home! (more…)
I have a theory called the “bifurcation of talent and resources,” meaning the relatively few good things around us are getting better, and the relatively plentiful things around us (e.g., the entirety of the U.S. federal government, corporate business ethics, and mainstream media) are rocketing toward complete degradation. (more…)
The German mathematician and rationalist philosopher Gottfried Leibniz speculated that although this world is clearly not perfect, that it may be the “best of all possible worlds.” Under this theory, God created the very best world He could; any other choice He could have made would have resulted in even more suffering than what we have here today. (more…)
Frequent commenter Marco Polo writes in response to my post Humankind Possesses Superior Intelligence–But There’s a Catch: “The End is Nigh” has been a common catch cry among doomsday prophets throughout the ages.
You’re correct that, throughout history, there have been people predicting doom, and even more people making fun of them. In most cases, the latter people turn out to be correct. However, what happens in the case of extinctions, of course, is that the former set has the last laugh (though it’s hardly a laugh). (more…)
Michael Bloomberg often delivers a short address at the Renewable Energy Finance Forum – Wall St., an event I’ve attended several times over the years. Here’s an op-ed he wrote in the New York Times that invokes the same folksy, accessible and optimistic style with which speaks. (more…)
