While U.S. football fans spent last Sunday eating and drinking their way through the Super Bowl, few noticed that it was also the birthday of Ayn Rand, author of philosophic novels. Her concept, as we all know, is that individual creativity, …
Category: Renewables – Politics
Ayn Rand’s Philosophy and Sustainability
Tagged with: author of philosophic novels Ayn Rand, Ayn Rand’s Philosophy, Climate Change, let us ignore the needs of others, loss of bio-diversity, lung disease, ocean acidification, shrink government to a size they can drown in a bathtub, top 85 people on Earth now have the same wealth as the bottom 3.5 billion, water shortages
Setting an Energy Policy
As I’ve written here once or twice before, it’s unconscionable that the U.S. doesn’t have an energy policy. What’s the matter with picking a direction and heading that way? Apparently, the Japanese province of Fukushima has done exactly that, prompted, …
Bill Maher, Jim Inhofe, Big Oil, and Corruption
Apparently, comedian Bill Maher (pictured here) plans to use his talents and stature as a celebrity to identify and remove “the worst member of Congress.” Though there are dozens of excellent candidates, I suppose I would nominate Jim Inhofe, (R, …
On the Lack of a U.S. Energy Policy
My friend Larry Miles, whose breakthrough in wind turbines I prominently feature here on my list of clean energy investment opportunities (it’s #6), writes: I was thinking about your piece on the sad state of the non-existent U.S. Energy Policy, …
GMOs Raises Larger Question of Corporate Influence in Our Lives
A reader sent me this: Kudos to General Mills for seeing the writing on the wall and releasing GMO-free Cheerios. This is a huge step in the eradication of this highly destructive agricultural “technology” that industrial agriculture has been pushing …
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Americans Looking More Favorably on Renewable Energy
Here’s a piece of good news: according to research giant Navigant, American consumers are beginning to look upon the concept of renewable energy more favorably. Here in the States, the whole clean energy industry took a terrible drubbing in the …
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From Guest Blogger Sara Dawkins: Why Pure Sustainable Energy May Never Be Realized
The Internet is full of reasons why we need to focus more on sustainable energy. Everyone has facts to display about rising sea levels, the waste of resources when fracking, and how we have alternatives to continue our survival as …
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Are Radio Shows on Renewable Energy an Exercise in Preaching to the Choir?
I had a great time with my family back east over the holidays, during which the subject came up: Uncle Craig, when you do radio shows and talk about renewable energy in an attempt to promote your books, aren’t you …
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The Colonial Settlements Had Different Viewpoints on Human Rights
Here’s a wonderfully entertaining crash-course in U.S. history that aims, appropriately enough, at the founding of the colonies in the early 17th Century. I was intrigued that the settlements in Massachusetts and Virginia had radically different conceptions of how people …
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2GreenEnergy and the Huffington Post?
2GreenEnergy has a new relationship with a publicity company down in Los Angeles called Jones and O’Malley. Terrific folks. They’re trying to get me a gig as a blogger at the Huffington Post, and, to that end, I just submitted …
