The efforts to which the Trump administration has gone to rip apart public education are disgusting, obviously aimed at manufacturing a new generation whose vast ignorance supersedes even that of our present population. (more…)
The sheer volume of brazen felonies committed by Trump’s closest associates boggles the mind. The only thing more astounding is that tens of million of Americans still support this crime family, most of whom, at the same time, considering themselves “good people.” Incomprehensible.
Contrary to the message on the embezzler’s T-shirt at left here, Roger Stone actually did several things wrong. (more…)
Electric vehicle maven Ed Benjamin posts the meme here, noting, “We don’t need a handful of people doing it perfectly. We need millions of people doing it imperfectly.”
Right on–and fortunately, this seems to be where we’re going. Fewer Hummers. More Priuses and EVs. Less bottled water. More bans on single-use plastic. Fewer coal plants. More rooftop solar. Fewer bee-killing pesticides. More farmer’s markets. Fewer steaks. More plant-based meat.
More people every day are simply taking the time to think about their impact on the planet and doing, within reason, what they can do to reduce it.
That’s really all anyone can ask.
Here’s a battery energy storage concept that is proposed for cell phone charging and high-efficiency lighting in the many parts of the developing world that, otherwise, have no access to electricity. The product will cost about $12, and the consumables (thin sheets of iron, paper, and some sort of sulfur-salt compound) run about $0.10 per day, the spent chemical waste discarded at the end of each day. (more…)
Here’s Bill Nye the Science Guy talking about climate change denial, generally.
Separately, here’s an excerpt from an article on how one might deal with denialists: (more…)
People with back yards can accomplish the same thing, free of charge, using zero energy, giving up no kitchen space, with no garbage rotting indoors, in the form of a compost pile.
I used to “operate” two compost piles, each topping out perhaps a cubic yard in volume. I’d start a new one every six months, and then use the old one, which provided fabulous fertilizer for my ~1000 square foot vegetable garden. Didn’t cost a nickel, and made great use of what nature has given us.
Here’s a video that explains How Many Houses Can We Power with a Lightning Bolt?
The recent post BlackRock Announcement Huge Win for the Environmental Movement included these questions:
Larry Fink, CEO of money management firm BlackRock, announced today that the company would prioritize mitigating the climate crisis in its decision-making on future investments and strategies. (more…)
To the guy on Facebook who is all upset about this: I have news for you. It doesn’t matter to his supporters, either in the electorate or in Congress, what crimes he has committed in the past, or will commit in the future. At this point, no one cares. What he said a few years ago about shooting someone in the face out on Fifth Avenue is by and large correct.
Yes, his staff will say that he was misquoted, taken out of context, that this is fake news, whatever. But they really needn’t waste their breath, and we need to accept the truth: he can do anything he wants, walk away, and head on to his next crime scene.
That’s the tragedy of what the United States has become.
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