Right-wing extremist and Equal Rights Amendment opponent Phyllis Schlafly died yesterday. I don’t normally celebrate deaths, but it’s hard not to in this case, especially when I find a meme that makes me smile like the one here did.
Category: Renewables – Politics
Civil Disobedience Stronger and More Popular Than Ever
On this date in 1847, Henry David Thoreau left Walden Pond. We remember him for his solitude and demand for a simple life, as well as his masterpiece essay Civil Disobedience (1849). We’re reminded of this as we receive the …
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Facebook Is Home To Some Really Hateful and Ignorant Stuff
I spend a decent amount of time on Facebook, staying in touch with old friends and trying to build a strong social media presence for 2GreenEnergy. To say the very least, this activity has its ups and downs; in particular, …
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Happy Birthday, Georg Hegel
It’s the birthday of German philosopher and theologian Georg Hegel, best known for his observation that human societies evolve via a clash of opposite viewpoints, called dialectics. He theorized that each conflict of contraries results in something new which then itself …
Tagged with: Big Energy pushing for more oil drilling, bourgeois and proletariat, Communist Manifesto of Marx and Engels, dialectic, Georg Hegel, limits of the Earth to support life, physics and chemistry, Renewable Portfolio Standards, responsibility to protect the quality of life for our children and grandchildren
Car Bumper-Stickers Provide Insight Into the Political Make-Up of the Community
A few times a week, I take a run on a beach here in Santa Barbara, and I’m always amused by the bumper-stickers on the cars in the parking lot. To get the joke of the first one, you need …
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Forbes: U.S. Presidential Candidates Differ Sharply on Renewable Energy
No comment on this article about Trump’s and Clinton’s policies re: solar and wind; the thing speaks for itself. I really hesitate to bring any of this up at all; I’m really looking forward to having this behind us, with …
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Would a Trump Presidency Be Entertaining?
I’ve mentioned that I volunteer to answer questions on renewable energy on the popular website Quora.com. I have to say that the feed contains questions that are actually far more interesting than clean energy per se. Here’s one from this …
Americans’ War Against the Koch Brothers
On an average day, I get two or three action-oriented emails like this one from “Climate Hawks”: We’re delighted to endorse Morgan Carroll in Colorado’s Sixth Congressional District, challenging the climate-denying, Koch-backed incumbent Mike Coffman. Morgan is a climate hawk …
If Reason and Decency Can Happen in Kansas, They Can Happen Anywhere
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback is best known to us in the rest of the country as the ultra-right-wing boob who slashed taxes on the rich, only to generate a loss of $688 million in its first year of operation, sending …
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Hey, United States! Where Are You Going?
Those of us concerned about the sustainability of our civilization cannot ignore, even if we’d like to, the political rancor right now to go around in the U.S. Thus, I thought readers would in interested in this riveting debate between …
