U.S. Department of Interior — Assisting in Geothermal
I tend to be critical of the U.S. government’s failure to take on a leadership role in promoting renewable energy, but I forget how far we’ve come. This piece describing the U.S. Department of Interior opening up public lands for geothermal, and assisting in the development of 20 gigawatts of this clean, baseload power by 2020, reminds me that it was only a few years ago, under the previous administration, that the activities of this group were essentially confined to rubber-stamping land leased for the oil companies at advantages rates — far below their fair market value. The Obama people tend to be far more progressive in this space, and deserve credit accordingly.
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The U.S solar industry keeps putt-putting along instead of moving full steam ahead. Why? The go-to answer is soft costs. But that doesn’t tell us much.
It’s never too early to start teaching environmental awareness, and while preschools and nursery schools are teaching it, they can go green at the same time.
Contrary to popular belief, the Philippines has four kinds of weather, namely: hot, very hot, rainy, and very rainy.
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The driver of the taxi who took me from a meeting I had last week in Los Angeles to the Amtrak station hailed from Mogadishu, Somalia. I asked, as I normally do, “What’s it like there?” I love to get a sense for how people live in these exotic parts of the world. What’s important to them? Are people optimistic that the future will be better than the past? I was anxious to know, but insofar as Mogadishu has seen such violence, I was a little concerned about bringing up a sore subject. 
Here’s the latest project of a civil servant, Dana Rohrabacher, pictured here, whose education includes degrees in history and American studies. His life’s work at this point is his commitment to proving that 
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