With all of us on an energy-saving mission to reduce our household running costs as well as reduce the impact on the environment, it can be difficult to know what to do to save electricity. The tips provided here was written by Meteor Electrical , They wanted to put light bulbs to the test and determine what’s better: LED or Halogen spotlights. (more…)
If you don’t know what a ”trophic cascade” is, you can find out in the wonderful video below. Better yet, you’ll see one in action.
Recently I wrote a post about beavers and their salubrious effect on the environment. This is along the same vein, though it deals with wolves. I hope you’ll enjoy it and learn as much from it as I did. (more…)
Advanced technology, smartphones and lots of artificial products have made us feel that the future is here. Everybody forgot the importance of nature and that we need to cherish it. Do not be such a person, reunite with nature again and welcome it into your home by introducing some organic and natural elements. Not only will these look great in your home, but will provide you with a healthier atmosphere.
A reader comments on my post on subsidies for the oil companies. Thanks for the additional clarity Craig. Your charts also do not allow for infrastructural benefits. The oil lobby weighed in heavily in favor of our national highway system. This has been cited as part of the demise of the railroads. Many today can’t imagine a world without the interstate road system just as they cannot imagine a world without oil.
Let me start by stating the obvious: this whole conversation on subsidies is very wide-ranging and not amenable to exact defined boundaries. (more…)
A reader brings up the ongoing squabble of the size of the subsidies the US taxpayer bestows upon the fossil fuel companies each year. Not surprisingly, those sympathetic to Big Oil like to dispute the numbers proffered by clean energy advocates, and suggest that they are myths. (more…)
One of my best friends, and certainly one of the smartest people I’ve ever met, sent me this:
Hi Craig, When we last talked, I mentioned this amazing book on strategy, Strategic Intuition, written by a professor at Columbia. He explains that all strategy methods and books are based on analyzing a strategy or implementing a strategy, but methods or books explain how to come up with the idea in the first place. He studied entrepreneurial thinkers in business and in social movements and found the answer. You will enjoy it both from a business viewpoint and from a social movement perspective. This book changed my life; I think you’ll love it too. (more…)
A reader comments on my post in which I predicted a fairly rapid adoption of EVs and a corresponding diminution of internal combustion engines: such an event requires advances in technology and infrastructure that don’t currently exist.
While the author has a reasonable point, the charging infrastructure isn’t as big an issue as most people think, for several reasons:
1) Electricity is ubiquitous; you can unplug your toaster and plug in your car. (more…)
Here’s an interesting table from the Alternative Fuels Data Center:
Infrastructure: US Fueling and Charging Stations
I sure wish there were a way to get everyone on Earth to spend the two minutes required to watch the incredibly powerful video presented below. As I wrote on Facebook to a friend who had posted it, “I’ve never received a more beautiful and important message in my entire life.”
Hope you’ll enjoy. (more…)
Cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead is perhaps best known for what she said about social progress: Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
There are many events in history that exemplify this nicely, and today is the anniversary of an important one. It was on this day in 1852 that Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published; it sold 10,000 copies in its first week, and about 2 million copies by 1857. (more…)
