Believe it or not, there is a law on the books in Canada that stipulates: No person who does not reside in Canada shall…induce electors to….vote for or refrain from voting for a particular candidate. Violators are subject to a $5000 fine, up to six months in prison, or both.
I don’t wish to flout the law, so I’ll skirt it instead. (more…)
Here’s a discussion on the use of “intake forms,” i.e., questionnaires that certain investment groups and lenders use as a preliminary step on an entrepreneur’s path toward receiving the funding required to move his business concept forward. Billy Joel fans will recognize the title here as a line from “Allentown,” a tale of economic woe, worsened by the prospect of wasting time in a bureaucratic morass. (more…)
Last week I functioned as a panelist at one of the so-called “Keiretsu Forums” here in Southern California, in which entrepreneurs pitch their business plans to potential investors. I really enjoy this, as it gives me practice on thinking on my feet and having something reasonably intelligent to say when confronted with a business concept, regardless of its nature and its relative worth.
Carinda Bourgeous (pictured), Keiretsu’s Regional Director, Membership & Operations, invited me, I presume because she had seen me in action before, at the Clean Business Investment Summit, (more…)
We all appreciate that coal, oil, and natural gas played a crucial role in creating the advanced society we have today. But astonishingly, some people, Mr. Epstein among them, assert that they pose no risk to the health and safety of the world of the 21st Century. (more…)
Global warming and the energy crisis has become big news and is one of the biggest motivators for car manufacturers to start producing more environmentally friendly vehicles. The electric car has become the first mass produced alternative to the combustion engine. An electrically powered vehicle produces zero emissions although there may be some produced during the process of making the electricity to power the car. (more…)
Fact: Mother Nature is suffering, no thanks to human’s abusive practices. Because of this, people are starting to look for ways to save the Earth and slowly jumping into the eco-friendly bandwagon. However, adopting green and eco-friendly practices is more than just turning off the lights and using solar panels.
Here are important things you should know about making your home or business eco-friendly before you (more…)
Here’s an interactive map that enables users to see the sea-level rise associated with different scenarios. Of course, such predictions contemplate the more distant future; it’s likely that only minor climate change-related damage will take place, due to rising oceans at least, over the next 50 years or so. (more…)
The disposable nature of our society is perhaps at its worst when the festive season rolls around. Halloween is the most pressing example of people buying a lot of expensive, environmentally harmful products, using them for a few days, and then discarding them, only to do it all over again next year. (more…)
Renna Roberts-Gore of Orlando, Florida writes:
I am “Going Green”!! I am a 43 year old Woman who is married and living in Orlando with my Husband and Son. I am a Veteran of the Navy and worked 18 years as a Paramedic. My dream though, is to leave a Legacy through Green Laundromats. (more…)
Quora.com is a site in which questions, some profound, others trivial, are posed and then answered by people who claim to have some expertise in the subject at hand. I’ve signed up to offer my two cents’ worth on matters pertaining to renewable energy, but I read discussions on other topics as time permits.
There are quite a number of interesting answers to the question in the title above, but most (correctly in my estimation) point to wars, especially the U.S.’ current struggle in the Middle East. And of course, wasting money is one thing; wasting lives is another. (more…)
