Below is a presentation by the late Antonin Scalia, two-decade-serving associate justice of the U.S. Supreme court until his death in 2016. The subject: What makes America such a free country? He concludes that it’s the separation of powers, especially, …
Category: Sustainability
Our Newfound Interest in Eco-Friendly Lawns
I’m sure many of us seniors, if we had the home ownership thing to do over, would opt out of the grass lawn paradigm. According to this piece by PBS, that’s exactly what more and more Americans are doing each …
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Achieving Eco-Friendliness by Rejecting Worthless Traditions
Another great meme on the eco-lawn. One good thing about today’s world is its dismissal of traditions that add no value in our lives.
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Pennsylvania Is Nowhere Nearly Stupid Enough to Elect Mehmet Oz
“Dr. Oz,” a truly repulsive conman who plays in the same league of deceit as Donald Trump himself, has no more chance of beating John Fetterman in the Pennsylvania senate race than he does replacing Boris Johnson as the Prime …
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Note on Sustainability
I wish I could think of a single thing that we ‘re doing in our civilization that’s driving us toward a sustainable future, but I’m at a loss. Think for a minute about climate, agriculture, fishing, land use, international relations/war, …
What Happens When Energy Is “Too Cheap to Meter?”
A reader asked me what I would do if I suddenly became quite rich: Craig: I’d make investments in companies with unique concepts in environmental stewardship. The problem, however, is that there aren’t too many of them. I see ideas …
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Graphic on Potable Water
The huge sphere (over Denver, CO?) represents the total amount of water on Earth, mostly in our oceans. The medium-sized ball (over St. Louis, MO?) is the amount of potable water, though most of that is locked up in glacial …
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Lots Happening in California, Texas, and Florida–But …..
There is a point to be made in the meme here, but the goings-on in California normally involve environmental stewardship, human rights, healthcare, or something else that makes the planet a better place to live. The precise opposite is true …
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How Democracies Die
As the United States flirts with the destruction of its democracy, we’re given the opportunity to study a bit about world history and learn what happened in certain ancient empires. We see, to our horror, that there is nothing at …
National Priorities
We have a great deal of work to do if we are to regain our intelligence and standing of moral uprightness on the world stage, and a great deal of that happens in our schools. The blogger “ceeks” featured at …
