Of the numerous consistencies to Donald Trump’s activities as U.S. President, among the clearest is outrageous behavior.  It’s as if, each day, he asks himself, “What can I do in the next hour or so that will be so appalling as to capture the world’s attention, and distract attention from what I did yesterday?” (more…)

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Joe Scarborough: “We’ve definitely crossed the Rubicon this week, where the president fires an Intel chief and completely disrupts the Intel community for simply telling the truth.”

Let’s be real.  New day, new Rubicon. (more…)

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A mainstay of our work here at 2GreenEnergy is finding strategic business partners for companies whose products support sustainability.  One such enterprise is Century Board, which maintains a proven, proprietary process by which it takes waste streams (some of them toxic, e.g., coal ash) and turns them into profit centers in the form of polymer composites, extruded into high-quality building products (especially roofing shingles) that are structurally superior in strength and stiffness, as well as resistant to fire, weather, mold and termites. (more…)

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In Poland, nearly 100 municipalities, one-third of the country, a region larger than Hungary, have declared themselves to be “free of LGBT ideology.” What that means precisely is described in the article linked above.

At the same time, here in rural Santa Barbara County, I just received the message below from the principal of the local high school, where I tutor.

Hatred and sustainability do not go together.  Sad day.

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Since the dawn of the renewable energy age that started in the late 1990s, everyone began to hope that, as it industrialized, Africa might be able to bypass coal and natural gas-fired power plants and leapfrog directly in to solar, wind, geothermal and hydro.  Two decades later, it appears that this may be a real possibility.

From this: (more…)

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Here are 9 top megatrends as seen by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (more…)

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The claim in the meme here is that everyone will have a better quality of life if this country shifts in the direction of democratic socialism.  If that were the case, we’d already be there.  The problem is that this isn’t true.

Here is a list of groups of those who will come out far behind, with a guess as to what percentage of American voters they apply to: (more…)

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If Trump’s 2020 campaign is going to succeed, it will require a huge amount of ignorance, as the Republican rallying cry is aimed to convincing voters that there is no difference between a country whose government addresses its citizens’ needs and Stalinist communism. (more…)

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As discussed before, it hasn’t been a good last 75 years for philosophers.  In the middle of the 20th Century, if you wanted to know the basic nature of the universe around us, you asked a philosopher, perhaps a metaphysician; now you ask an astrophysicist.  Similarly, if you wanted to know how the human mind perceives the outside world, or the limits of human knowledge, you asked a philosopher, maybe an epistemologist; now you ask a neurologist. (more…)

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The author claims that Germany is eyeing electric drive trains for short commuter flights, say 200 kilometers.  Really?  That’s 130 miles, which Germans do in about 45 minutes on their autobahns.  Who takes a flight when you can be at your destination in under an hour by car?
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