Category: Renewables – Business

Here’s a short video from Dave Chappelle that, in less than one minute, makes us laugh about our present-day politicians’ claims on the repatriation of American jobs. Worth your time.

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The “Other 98%” reports: Trump is literally sabotaging America’s booming Clean Energy industry for his billionaire oil-tycoon donors. A couple of points: The 3.5 million American households that rely on paychecks that derive from the transformation to low-carbon energy and …

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There are several independent reasons that a robust investment in solar and wind on America’s part is a good idea.  One is establishing a leadership role in an industry that must grow if our planet is to continue to support …

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There is lot one could say about how revolting Hobby Lobby is, but a good place to start is that the Founding Fathers were adamant that the United States was not based on any religion. In the words of John …

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Corporate America seems to be at war against its consumer customers.  Driving up profits by increasing prices, shrinkflation, and other forms of corner-cutting are everywhere in our lives. On top of everything else, we have products that simply don’t work, …

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Re: the reader’s comment here on The Grapes of Wrath, there is no doubt that the book challenges the basic tenets of capitalism, and it does so in what is perhaps the most forceful piece ever written in the English …

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The story at left is a strange one, though worth telling for a good reason: We all should make sure that money plays its proper role in our lives. One part of this tale rings particularly true: avoid displays of …

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Donna Smedley writes: Remember when Canada and the U.S. were best friends? Hockey jokes, Niagara Falls road trips, and snowbirds flooding Florida condo boards with drunk westerners getting arrested in VEGAS? Yeah. That relationship’s gone. Welcome to Canada’s unofficial, but …

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We’ve all seen the many covert ways that merchants employ to take advantage of their customers. The other day, I was talking to the recently retired VP Marketing at the roast beef sandwich chain Arby’s, and I asked him if …

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Here’s a short video in which “The Great Communicator” (Ronald Reagan) spoke to America about tariffs and the threats they represent to America. Worth 60 seconds of your life?  I think so.

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