From Guest Blogger Christopher Austin: Electric Vehicle or Plug-in Hybrid–Which One Is Really Clean and Green?
Electricity generated for your car is considered clean provided that the method used to make that energy is also eco-friendly. Electric cars and electricity are clean at the using point. But then again, coal fired power plants make fingers to wag, which is not necessarily clean. Some experts argue that electric vehicles claiming to be “clean” are not actually clean because the coal generates the electricity; and coal is particularly dirty. Clean electricity is free of pollutants at the using point, which means that electric cars don’t feature a tailpipe. These vehicles emit no carbon or any kind of pollutants. (more…)
While we have known for decades that air pollution is bad and has negative effects on human health, it would appear that the more we learn, the more serious the situation seems to become. Our society continues to trend toward green energy sources, yet the residual effects from decades of uncontrolled air pollution continue to take their toll.
It’s the birthday of American biophysicist James Watson (on left), of Watson/Crick fame, discoverers of the double-helix DNA molecule in 1953. In a book on the subject, Watson noted: “To succeed in science, you have to avoid dumb people […] you must always turn to people who are brighter than yourself.”
Protecting the environment should be one of the top concerns for industries and individuals alike. Environmental sustainability works best when the entire community is involved. There are steps that every citizen can take to ensure that their city operates in a sustainable way that protects the environment.
An old friend from grade school reacted adversely to the pic here which I had shared on Facebook, and my comment: “A terrific idea from a wonderful human being.” He wrote: Like the message 
In response to my colleague 
This morning I explained to a friend that, in my estimation, Buckminster Fuller was a super-human engineer, architect, author and visionary. He’s perhaps best known today for some terrific quotes he made during his long and rich life, including my favorite: “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” 
Even though the delivery of Tesla model 3 vehicles might be two to three years off, getting lines longer than when Apple rolls out a new phone, and 198k reservations, set up a realization for the world that a new reality is being forged, and it has legs. For example, the lines were up to 500 people in San Diego, but a similar phenomenon was going on all over the place, and online. The car is good looking and has great specs. Now the firm just needs to execute, which is no easy challenge. 
