From Guest Blogger Kara Masterson: Green and Growing–How Modern Manufacturers Are Making Strides Toward Sustainability
While there was a time when manufacturers in America had a reputation (sometimes deservedly) as “despoilers of the natural environment”, that has changed markedly in the last several decades. As it becomes more and more apparent through climate change, global warming, and other environmental warnings that not only is it not nice to fool Mother Nature, she doesn’t care for abuse or overuse. (more…)
Humans continue to throw things away and garbage continues to accumulate in landfills. With so much garbage and the fact that it takes tens, hundreds or thousands of years for some materials to break down, eventually that garbage is going to have nowhere to go. Reducing your consumption is the best way to reserve resources, but recycling definitely helps save the environment too.
Whether you’re glued to Google headlines or the New York Times, reading the next headline about electric vehicles probably gives you a rush.
If you don’t know who Jim Jefferies is, now’s a good time to rectify that. The Australian comedian’s 
According to the Writer’s Almanac, it’s the birthday of 
Fortunately for the outcome of our civilization, millennials have a far more progressive attitude than their parents and grandparents when it comes to environmental stewardship, climate change mitigation, and so forth. Some believe that this is a natural consequence of the fact that old people are going to be dead soon, and thus will not have to suffer from the consequences of our egregious failure to clean up after ourselves. 
One of the beauties of writing stuff in the Internet age is the longevity the pieces enjoy; it’s possible that as many people are reading articles I wrote a couple of years ago as are following my daily blog.
Through a bizarre and cruel coincidence, it’s the anniversary of the ratification of the 14th Amendment, which is one of the most important of all 27, insofar as it guarantees equal protection under the law for all citizens. I say “bizarre and cruel” because it comes on a day on which all decent people are mourning the death of a horrifying number of black men at the hands of our police, which demonstrates so clearly that this key aspect of US law sometimes has no meaning in the real world. 
A reader asks, “Has it been determined whether the world’s supply of lithium is sufficient to produce enough battery capacity to make renewables reliable?”
