From the Writer’s Almanac: It’s the birthday of the man who wrote the first memoir in Western literature: St. Augustine born in 354 in Thagaste, which is now in Algeria. He is best known for his Confessions, a 13-book autobiography of his life and conversion. (more…)
Donald Trump’s Aberdeenshire golf resort must pay the Scottish government’s legal costs following a court battle over a major North Sea wind power development. He had battled unsuccessfully in the courts to halt the project (a total of 11 turbines) before he became U.S. president, and judges have now ruled Trump International Golf Club Scotland Ltd should pay the legal bills incurred.
Trump and wind power haven’t exactly been on friendly terms. Americans are still wondering how a sane and even vaguely informed person could assert that wind turbines cause cancer. The growth of the wind industry might be the kind of thing the authority of The Serenity Prayer meant when he wrote “accept the things I cannot change.”
The innocent tranquility of this beautiful young indigenous boy in Northern Brazil belies the violence being inflicted on this region and its occupants.
As noted here: Attacks against indigenous people in the Amazon have spiked since Bolsonaro came to office. His administration has worked to open the Amazon even further to logging, mining and agribusiness companies while violating the land rights of indigenous peoples. Earlier this year, eight former environment ministers warned Bolsonaro’s administration was systematically destroying Brazil’s environmental policies, with one former minister saying Brazil is becoming an “exterminator of the future.”
The destruction of the Amazon may be the single greatest blow against any hope we may have for a sustainable future.
Occasionally it’s nice to acknowledge people who create beautiful things, which the reasoning behind this atta-boy for Pedro Reyes. What you see here is, according to Reyes, a matter of shifting perspective. (more…)
My colleague Jon LeSage serves as editor and publisher of Green Auto Market, which tracks the business of green cars, fuels, and technologies. He also serves as Automotive Editor, Green Initiatives at Automotive Digest and writes for Autoblog Green. He describes himself as follows: I’m passionate about – obsessed! – with this burgeoning global industry that has huge geopolitical, environmental, energy, and economic issues hovering around it. (more…)
A reader sent me this “open letter to Greta Thunberg”:
“The apocalyptic world vision you hold has been a strip landing for those who have hated progress throughout history. Your apocalyptic predictions have been made for millennia, and, we’re still here. We will still be here long after you’ve grown up and we have forgiven you for skipping classes, thereby lowering the intelligence quotient (sic) of an entire generation.”
I understand from this and your previous material that you are deeply conservative. That’s fine. (more…)
The chart here says a lot.
FWIW, here’s what I do with my charitable dollars. Sure, like many of readers here at 2GreenEnergy, I’m a dues-paying member of the Sierra Club, Amnesty International and a couple of others along these lines. But my real favorite is the Turimiquire Foundation, the first and only non-profit of its kind in northeastern Venezuela, that describes itself as follows: We help families control their fertility, educate their children, build community, and gain access to life-changing medical and humanitarian aid.
Go for it. 🙂
What did New Zealand do following two mosque shootings? It banned military-style semi-automatic rifles and high-capacity magazines. It didn’t ask permission of the NRA. It simply took immediate action to protect its people. (more…)
I’m told that it’s gauche to make comparisons between Trump and Hitler.
Whatever. In any case, the author of this meme certainly makes a good point; that’s precisely what these Germans believed.
The irony of all this is that Trump couldn’t care less what’s happening to America; he’s interested only in self-aggrandizement. If you doubt this, ask yourself why he’s damaged relations with every American ally you can name, and become chummy with our avowed enemies. Ask why he spent funds donated to his charity for veterans for personal and political purposes.
Inductive EV charging certainly has its place. Suppose you have a fleet of buses that do nothing but take people from your hotel to the airport and vice versa, with dedicated short-term parking spaces at both ends. Having stationary charging pads at these locations makes all the sense in the world. (more…)
