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 …
Car Bumper-Stickers Provide Insight Into the Political Make-Up of the Community Read More »
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 …
Forbes: U.S. Presidential Candidates Differ Sharply on Renewable Energy Read More »
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 …
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 …
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 …
If Reason and Decency Can Happen in Kansas, They Can Happen Anywhere Read More »
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 …
I’m fairly guarded with my comments on the legitimacy of capitalism as the foundation of our civilization. But holy mackerel, the Pope certainly isn’t. Say what you will about modern-day life, but you sure can’t claim it’s boring. Think of …
Today, Americans of conscience are celebrating the first birthday of the Clean Power Plan, which provides a comprehensive new policy to underpin the rapid migration away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energy, in an effort to mitigate climate change …
While the chorus of anti-Trump sentiment is growing louder by the day, he remains very much in the public spotlight, perhaps only for the wonderment we all hold: what hateful, laughably erroneous, irresponsible thing is he going to say next? …
Frequent commenter (when will I find a new descriptor?) MarcoPolo writes: Trump knows his audience will hear what they want to hear. His best publicists are his enemies. The more vitriolic and outraged they become, the more likable he seems.
