Frequent commenter MarcoPolo scolds me for my post on Examining the Validity of Different Energy Resources: “One thing that will not be useful in the development of future sources of power generation is cheap and inane partisan political jibes.” …
In Choosing Among Various Approaches to Energy, Politics Is a Very Big Deal Read More »
At 2GreenEnergy, we routinely remind readers of the ideas put forth by the contemporary and historical political philosophers, insofar as, in general, their thoughts have great import on some of today’s most critical issues. We all have a great deal …
I’ve used quite a few images depicting love over these seven years, and here’s one more, this one from Reuters. The caption: Two activists with the EU flag and Union Jack painted on their faces kiss in front of Brandenburg Gate …
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My friend Cameron Atwood writes: Crass pandering–this (the commercialization of America’s national parks) sickens me. Yes, it’s an ugly sign of the times, i.e., the decline of the American Empire. The U.S. has fallen on hard times, and now needs to …
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In my recent post The Connection Between Rural Electrification and Environmental Devastation, I extol the importance of bringing electricity to the developing world so as to promote education, affluence and family planning, while reducing the size of the field for …
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I just received an email that is so perfectly crafted I thought I’d publish it here in its entirety. The subject: Citizens United, the notorious U. S. Supreme Court decision of 2010 that enables corporations to spend as much as …
Of course, we at 2GreenEnergy view Obama’s tenure as president through the lens of environmental issues, something on which he gets very high grades. Linked above is a post in which I present 60 important accomplishments in this space, each …
I am a big fan of retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens; here’s the post I wrote in gratitude for his service when he left the bench six years ago. Fortunately for us all, Stevens lives on, enabling …
Frequent commenter MarcoPolo took some level of umbrage with my post in which I mentioned that the largest public university in the U.S. had divested itself from fossil fuels. His main point: damaging the oil companies’ profits would send the economy …
To anyone wishing to know why Andrew Jackson’s image should be removed from U.S. currency, I refer this note in today’s Writer’s Almanac:
