Here’s environmentalist Bill McKibben at his best, pointing out that we should shelve the resentment and cynicism that we feel for corruption in Congress, and start to show how we truly feel: ANGRY. He writes, “We’ve reached the point where …
Environmentalist Bill McKibben: Get Angry at Corruption in Congress Read More »
My family and I are out of here tomorrow morning, and back on the 27th. It’s our annual pilgrimage back to Philadelphia, cradle of the Union – ironic to be sure, given my recent writing on how sadly corrupt has …
How Thrilled Would Ben Franklin Be With What We’ve Done To Our Democratic Republic? Read More »
During the holiday season, we talk a great deal about peace: world peace, the Prince of Peace, and so forth — all good things. But isn’t it a shame that, in large measure, we trot these concepts out at Christmas, only …
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Here’s a piece of U.S. legislation that is unimaginably unAmerican: the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2012, Section 1031 which provides broad authority for the federal government to use the military in domestic operations in order to detain Americans …
News from the U.S. — Federal Government Takes Final Step to Suspend Constitution Read More »
Predictably, the international climate talks in Durban, South Africa yielded little if any real progress, but some truly wonderful rhetoric. In his article Australia Wants Clean Energy Cheap Rather Than Dirty Energy Expensive, Alex Trembath quotes this piece in the Canberra …
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It is with great pleasure that I announce the introduction of a measure into the U.S. senate calling for a constitutional amendment that would limit the rights that corporations have to influence our elections. The amendment, referred to as “Saving …
Global nuclear capacity has remained flat in growth in the last decade, the worldwide operational installed capacity increased insignificantly from 370 GWe at the end of 2005 to 375 GWe at the end of 2010. Nuclear capacity in the OECD …
From Guest-Blogger Joshua Okomo — Green Energy and Human Rights Paradigm Read More »
Fast trucking the development of clean energy in Africa has been a major challenge for which African states have to render political and governance support, one of the fundamental strategy is intergovernmental organizations and programmes of Africa’s group of nations. …
We all want to know why the developed countries don’t do something about global climate change, given that it’s we who have the power to control the destiny of civilization, as the preponderance of energy consumption falls disproportionately to the …
A wonderful gentleman, Peter Kusterer, blogger extraordinaire from North Carolina called me the other day, and we chatted for some time. At the conclusion, he graciously asked me to send him any concluding thoughts I might have before he published …
