On an average day, I get two or three action-oriented emails like this one from “Climate Hawks”:
We’re delighted to endorse Morgan Carroll in Colorado’s Sixth Congressional District, challenging the climate-denying, Koch-backed incumbent Mike Coffman. Morgan is a climate hawk and a 5th generation Coloradoan. (more…)
Solar energy and its use have become extremely popular. It is a latest trend to install a high quality and energy efficient system that is solar power. It is possible both in houses and businesses. The companies that is committed to give efficient solutions to envision energy. They deliver outstanding service to the customers who require their service. (more…)
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback is best known to us in the rest of the country as the ultra-right-wing boob who slashed taxes on the rich, only to generate a loss of $688 million in its first year of operation, sending the state into a financial abyss from which it may take decades to recover. From New York Magazine: (more…)
Over the years, we’ve had many hundreds of comments from people who claim that solar and wind can’t scale to replace fossil fuels. This is amusing, since all these people need to do to disconfirm their beliefs is open their window and look around. (more…)
Without question, the protections we Americans enjoy under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution have been used in some strange ways over the years. Most recently, we’ve seen the free exercise of religion used to defend certain people’s right to deny service to the LGBT community; I don’t think too many people saw that one coming, and even fewer thought it would survive the scrutiny of the Supreme Court. (more…)
Here are some comments on writing that I wanted to share:
It’s the birthday of poet and essayist Percy Bysshe Shelley, who told us, “Do it now — write nothing but what your conviction of its truth inspires you to write.” (more…)
Those of us concerned about the sustainability of our civilization cannot ignore, even if we’d like to, the political rancor right now to go around in the U.S. Thus, I thought readers would in interested in this riveting debate between journalist, activist, and author Chris Hedges (pictured) and political commentator and professor Robert Reich. This is seriously good stuff for people trying to make sense of where our nation is headed. (more…)
I’m fairly guarded with my comments on the legitimacy of capitalism as the foundation of our civilization. But holy mackerel, the Pope certainly isn’t.
Say what you will about modern-day life, but you sure can’t claim it’s boring. Think of all the phenomena we’ve seen in just the past few years that were entirely absent previously, e.g.: (more…)
Today, Americans of conscience are celebrating the first birthday of the Clean Power Plan, which provides a comprehensive new policy to underpin the rapid migration away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energy, in an effort to mitigate climate change and protect our environment more generally.
However, unlike infants, the plan is under constant and vicious attack from the interests whose profit stream it threatens. Peabody Coal, their allies in Congress, and officials from nearly 30 states are suing the EPA to try to block the Clean Power Plan and its critical clean air safeguards.
Here’s a conference I won’t be attending, but not for lack of interest. The topic: the future of low-emission aviation. The speakers: spokespeople from GE, Honeywell, Airbus, Siemens, Rolls Royce, and NASA. Topics: See (impressive) list below. (more…)
