In the past decade or so, I’ve begun to read the “In Memoriam” sector of the alumni magazine of the college I attended in the 1970s, hoping that I don’t read about someone I know.
For all those who read the obituaries, here’s one about the Great Barrier Reef of Australia, which had been a key feature of this planet for the last 25 million years old. (more…)
It can be difficult to feel like you are making a big difference when it comes to saving the world, especially as a member of a younger generation. But you aren’t powerless. Every little, and big, bit helps when it comes to green efforts. Here are some ways you can do your part and help.
In response to my recent post on the legal action being taken against ExxonMobil for its role in hiding the truth about climate change, frequent commenter MarcoPolo writes: I know of no law or Statute broken by Exxon in regard to this issue. (more…)
Here’s a short video, featuring Dr. Katharine Hayhoe, a prominent climate scientist and Leonardo DeCaprio, for those wanting to understand the concept of a carbon tax.
And speaking of DeCaprio, here’s one on the reason wes need a carbon tax. It’s his documentary in which he takes the viewer around the globe, experiencing the effects of climate change. Quite a life that young man is having.
As suggested in the pic here, generating body heat is one approach to energy efficiency in the cold winter months. Another is, more serious suggestion, is described by guest blogger Lizzie Weakly below. -ed
Energy efficiency is not only good for the environment – it’s good for your bottom line, too. But fall and winter can require a lot of energy output, so it’s important to be conscientious of your business’s energy usage during colder months and what you can do to mitigate it.
Turn off Devices and Lights (more…)
It’s the birthday of e.e. cummings, which gives me the opportunity to present one of my favorite poems, and offer a short comment on it.
a man who had fallen among thieves (more…)
A few readers have commented that my colleague Fritz Maffry has some excellent insights into the future of technology, including, of course, cleantech. Here’s his latest installment that includes a solid discussion of the electric vehicle curve:
We have been talking about artificial intelligence and intelligent assistants for some time. Now everyone is talking about them, featured articles in The Economist, Wired Magazine, Fortune. The U.S. president is talking about it as a moonshot; Fortune is talking about it as key to future economy; Google is talking about it as with machine learning being the most important opportunity and focus of the company going forward. (more…)
2GreenEnergy super-supporter Cameron Atwood writes:
The most basic paradigms by which our societies now operate are far too often sourced in some deception or some novel and baseless belief.
Examples include the commodification of natural resources like water, forests, oil, gas, nutrition, shelter – as well as of birthrights like healthcare, safe and unrestricted passage, even government representation.
As Jean-Jacques Rousseau observed in The Social Contract and The Discourses… (more…)
Here’s a note I thought I would share from Greenpeace on the litigation against ExxonMobil re: their understanding, which has been in place for as long as 40 years, of the role that fossil fuel consumption would inevitably play in destroying the planet via climate change.
I know there are people who think this is baseless, and represents “grandstanding” on the part of the attorneys general involved in the case, as well as the SEC. I happen not to see it that way. (more…)
Here’s a tale of a billionaire coal baron who wants to become governor of West Virginia. There’s a problem, though: he owes $15 million in mine safety fines in six states that he’s apparently unwilling to pay. Jim Justice, an ironic name if there ever were one, is the nation’s top mine safety delinquent, and his mines have below-average safety records and injury rates twice the national average.
On top of all the other shameful garbage that’s happening in our great country, we don’t have a problem nominating obvious criminals to run for high office.
