Here’s a video I put on my Facebook page, with introduction: Those seeking to know why things in our country are so screwed up need look no further than this. My old friend Steve Vachss writes: This woman makes some …
Category: Renewables – Politics
The Battles of Lexington and Concord: How They Translate Into Our World Today
As we note today’s anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord in the early part of the American Revolution, it’s hard not to think of the parallels to the current scene here in the modern-day U.S. In particular, 241 …
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The U.S. Citizenry Is in the Process of Taking Back Its Democracy
It’s gratifying to see the robust quantity and quality of the comments to my recent post: Ideologies that Further Environmental Sustainability Are Actually Good. Many of these remarks point to the failing U.S. democracy, i.e., the sad fact that the …
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Tagged with: Ideologies that Further Environmental Sustainability Are Actually Good, imminent demise of Citizens United, Peter Dreier professor of politics and chair of the Urban and Environmental Policy Department at Occidental College, U.S. Citizenry Is in the Process of Taking Back Its Democracy, United States Supreme Court’s decision in the “Citizens United” case
Clean Power Act Under Attack
In the U.S., perhaps the most important legal battle pertaining to environmental sustainability and climate change is the centerpiece of the Obama administration’s efforts in this arena, the Clean Power Act.
The Love Affair Between Big Money and Politics Will Soon Be Over
There must be 200 posts here since 2GE’s inception in 2009 dealing with the imperative to remove Big Money from U.S. politics. The reason? Though we happen to be focused on renewable energy here, the American people will never get …
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Some Politicians Are Into Sustainability/Environmentalism
Unfortunately, most of our politicians approach their role from the perspective of law; in fact, four of the last nine U.S. presidents had degrees in the subject. But what happens when someone comes along with a perspective of environmental and …
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Tagged with: environmental justice. social justice
An Auspicious Trend in US Politics
I hope readers are following the daily 2GreenEnergy Instagram feed, mainly built on pics I’ve taken around our very rural neighborhood near Santa Barbara, CA. At the left is today’s post with caption: Along with all the horrifying developments in …
The Phrase “Politically Correct” Has Fallen on Hard Times
A reader notes that the ascendancy of Donald Trump is due in large measure to the fact that people are tired of being led by someone who sees the need to be politically correct. For whatever reason, I’ve never viewed …
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Big Money Tends To Work Against Renewable Energy–How Controversial Is That?
It’s with sadness that one of my readers got really incensed on my post about Big Money and the Republican Party and unsubscribed. He notes: If you don’t like Trump then that’s fine; why don’t you keep it to yourself?
A Casualty of Big Money in Politics: The Ruination of the Republican Party
In response to my post to the effect that Reykjavík, Iceland has the cleanest energy mix of any city in the world, a Republican who can’t stand Trump and who happens to be very close to me wrote: That was …
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