From Guest Blogger Christopher Austin: Sustainable Flooring Options–The Responsible and Healthy Way to Enhance your Home
Environmental concerns usually focus on the damage that the various chemicals and pollutants are doing to the atmosphere. The potential effect is devastating. However, there may be pollutants in your own home which can be very harmful to your health. One of the worst examples of this is when you fit a new carpet. This will typically release hundreds of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) which have been associated with a wide range of serious illnesses. Surprisingly it can take years for these VOCs to dissipate! Fortunately, there is a range of alternative flooring you can use which is environmentally friendly and human friendly. (more…)
A reader notes that the ascendancy of Donald Trump is due in large measure to the fact that people are tired of being led by someone who sees the need to be politically correct.
At the suggestion of a colleague, I checked out an episode of “Shark Tank” with my daughter last night. I don’t watch too much commercial TV, but this was actually better than I had imagined. I agree with most of the VCs’ reasoning, especially on things like valuation, but sometimes they go after a business concept that I think is asinine. But who knows? I’m often wrong about the market demand for consumer products. 
Perhaps a bit off-topic, but this is something everyone should see. And in fact, it’s an important aspect of the migration to renewable energy, and all the other social goods we seek. Enjoy. 
It’s with sadness that one of my readers got really incensed on my 
Sorry, I don’t know the source of this, but the answer is Reykjavik, Iceland …
Commenting on my recent post of the electric vehicle market’s being in the tank, a libertarian reader writes a note that concludes: EV’s will continue to improve, but it’s an evolution, not a revolution.
There are many ideas being promoted to clean up the plastic and other garbage from our oceans, but here’s one I hadn’t come across until now. Each could be powered by a piece of solar PV, and could be set in an array to cover huge amounts of surface area. 
As reported by my brilliant colleague Jon LeSage in his 
