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From Guest Blogger Lizzie Weakly: How to Protect Your Well Water System
Protecting your well water system from contamination can mean the difference between clean drinking water for your family and a life changing illness. Here are the tips you need to keep your well water system clean.
Test Your Water
A key step to taking care of your well water is testing. Annual testing can detect bacteria and other contaminants that could be harmful to your family. It’s a good idea to keep detailed records of each testing so you can monitor changes over time. According to the Water Systems Council, testing once per year should be sufficient unless you are experiencing one of the following: (more…)
Yes, The Oil Companies Actually Do Have a Corruptive Influence in Washington
Frequent commenter MarcoPolo takes exception to my claim the oil companies have a corrupting influence on the U.S. law-making process. I respond:
Either you’re not paying attention or you’re willfully ignoring the evidence. (more…)
From Guest Blogger Ben Allen: The Key To Successful Green Branding
Good branding is essential to any business succeeding over time. A good brand can retain customers, attract new customers, and make a business more memorable. For a business that specializes in green products or services, a strong brand is important to connecting with the green community. If consumers feel that a business isn’t sincere about being green, then they won’t buy from them. A strong brand also keeps customers loyal in the longer term, meaning they’ll purchase from you again and recommend others. (more…)
Gauging the Implications of Trump’s Victory
I received a note this morning from a dear friend wondering if I shared the same sense of shock at the election of Donald Trump as she and her husband felt. She went on to say that she believes that innovation can play an important role in getting us through the next four years. I wrote:
Yes, I’m horrified by the implications of the Trump administration, and I become more so with each successive cabinet appointment. (more…)
Tagged with: costs of renewables, efficiency solutions, electric transportation, Garrison Keillor, gutting of CAFE standards in transportation, horrified by the implications of the Trump administration, incoming Secretary of Labor Andrew Puzder, lifting of restrictions on pollution from fossil fuel plants, opening up of federal lands to oil and gas exploration, regressive policies will have a limited effect, the dismantling of the EPA, the revocation of the Clean Power Plan, US pulling out of the Paris Accord
Celebrating Group Achievement
From today’s Writer’s Almanac: On this date in 1979, a panel of scientists declared the smallpox virus to be eradicated. It’s the first and only disease to be driven to extinction through human efforts. The disease itself has probably been around since at least 10,000 B.C.E. Evidence of smallpox scars has been found on Egyptian mummies, and the decline of the Roman Empire coincides with a particularly bad outbreak that claimed 7 million people. It spread from northern Africa throughout Europe and Asia, and came to the New World with Spanish explorers.
First, we need to celebrate humankind’s coming together and solving a problem of this magnitude, and we should note that this wonderful achievement is particularly relevant today. (more…)
Defunding NASA’s Climate Research: It’s Not a Complicated Issue
In response to my post explaining how the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will soon see all its climate change research funding removed, here’s a short excerpt from frequent commenter MarcoPolo’s much longer response: It’s always controversial when funding is withdrawn from any research project. However, the reaction from the Sierra Club, like your own, is partisan and politically biased. People are screaming, “I want to get my own way!” (more…)
From Guest Blogger Akaahan Terungwa: Five Important Questions (And Answers) You Should Tackle Before Transitioning To Solar
Like it or not, the renewable energy revolution is right here upon us and solar is clearly leading the game. For cynics (and doubting Thomases), the singular fact that Tesla made more money in the last quarter than the entire US oil industry made last year should be a sobering thought.
This can only mean one thing: the game has changed and the dawn of a completely new and exciting era is right upon us. (more…)
No Long-Term Prognosis for Fossil Fuels
Those who foresee slow, incremental change in the energy industry should take a peek at this. Google, the company with the second highest market cap in the U.S., will receive 100% of the considerable amount of energy it consumes from renewable resources beginning next year.
It’s just another data point showing the inevitable conclusion: All Trump’s men won’t be able to put the fossil fuel industry back together again.
And ironically, the fundamental reason for the burgeoning success of renewables is capitalism itself, i.e., lots of people are making lots of money investing in clean energy all over the world.
Is It Really “Shocking” that Donald Trump will Eliminate NASA’s Climate Research Program?
I thought I’d publish the email I just got from the Sierra Club (of which I’m one of about 2.5 million members), and offer a comment or two at the end:
“SHOCKINGLY STUPID!” That’s what one climate policy expert called reports that Donald Trump will eliminate NASA’s climate research program. (more…)
