The Effects of Deregulating Energy Markets
A friend just wrote: The analogy with telephony just hit me yesterday, and I found this article today.
I respond: Hi, Tom. I’m a little concerned about this article, to be honest. (more…)
Note on Algal Biofuels
Here’s the latest installment of my colleague Jon LeSage’s Green Auto Digest, which includes a fairly full treatment on algae biofuels. He believes they’re at a critical juncture as a viable clean transportation fuel, and writes:
A few years ago, algae biofuels and oils looked like ideal options for the future of clean transportation. (more…)
Trends Towards Liberalism
A comment on a recent post contained the phrase: “fantasies created by trendy liberals.” Two points:
• “Fantasies” is just a pejorative term for hopes, aspirations, and ambitions. It’s very important to our society and to the outcome of our civilization that some people dream of a better world and work hard to achieve it.
• Similarly, “trendy” seems deliberately unflattering; it connotes something chic and cool that is destined to turn into a passing fad. Yet we all need to hope that the quite noticeable leaning towards environmentalism, social justice, tolerance, etc., does not disappear and revert back to the place from which humankind has come. And there is good evidence that it won’t. Check out this and this.
We Can Change the World
Here’s a graphic I just found that caught my attention.
I believe it’s true. We are not ignorant, defenseless slaves of the elite few who believe they control the world–and we’re starting to figure that out.
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Papal Infallibility
According to the Writer’s Almanac, it was on this day in 1870 that the First Vatican Council declared the doctrine of Papal Infallibility.
This, of course, raises some eyebrows of people outside the church. (more…)
Republicans, the Environment, and Coal. Oh my.
It’s not uncommon for us Americans to say that our two dominant political parties are so close to being identical to one another that it doesn’t matter for whom we vote. The reasoning is thus: they are both essentially owned by special interests, they espouse the same hawkish, imperialistic foreign policies and forward the same neoliberal agenda. (more…)
Intersolar Show Boasts a Decent Amount of Exuberance
I feel like a giddy child gushing the way I do about how cool the Intersolar show was. But here’s an example I hope you’ll enjoy, a brass band wailing on the steps of the Moscone Center—at breakfast time. What happens when they start serving (free) beer around 4 PM? (more…)
We All Have the Power To Change the World
As we’re growing up, we all wonder how we will “make our mark on the world,” and many of us decide to do so by trying to make this Earth a better place to live. Here’s a video that tells a beautiful story—one that you probably haven’t heard.
Enjoy.
The Strange But Palpable Connection We All Have With One Another
A friend provides this video and notes: Marvin Gaye’s Classic still rings true today “… only Love can conquer Hate”. “Well done!” to these special artists (from all over the world) for recreating this beautiful song which spreads the message of Love and Peace and to help bring us all together as “One to overcome the negative voices that want to pit us against each other and bring us down. We are all connected…
You are so right, and thanks for this incredibly beautiful reminder.
Trump Chooses Mike Pence as Running Mate
It will be interesting to see how they fare with an electorate that includes women, Hispanics and all people of color, LGBTs, Muslims, true Christians, economists and trade policy professionals, military people who understand the realities of war, constitutional lawyers, kind and decent people, anyone who believes in science, young people, and essentially everyone else with a college education. (more…)
