From Guest Blogger Brooke Chaplan: Green Factories–Renewable Manufacturing Methods That Create a Cleaner Earth



Despite some evidence of a reviving coal market, it is a sector too tough to read: (more…)

Matthew Simmons served as energy adviser to U.S. President George W. Bush. His book Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy is a thoughtful examination of oil reserve decline rates – a phenomenon that points to the idea of “Peak Oil” – the concept that the world’s capacity to find petroleum is declining. (more…)

Not that I’m God’s gift to songwriting, but let me point out that the Old English Christmas carol “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” (gorgeous version linked here) comes with a rhyming scheme (A-A-A-B) that you may want to preserve in your version. Perhaps something like: (more…)






For the life of me, I can’t understand why people take you seriously. The Germans who tortured and gassed the Jews were very passionate too. Passion and moral rightness have nothing to do with one another. But that doesn’t imply that moral rightness does not exist. Decent people fight injustice, fascism, oppression, and human rights violations. To say that the people who support atrocities are somehow entitled to their own viewpoints is totally unsupportable.