Category: Sustainability

Whether it’s Jean Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, or Soren Kierkegaard, someone of note has been influencing the way we park our cars.

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True to form, Fox “News” anchor Tucker Carlson is bent out of shape about the guilty verdict in the Derek Chauvin case.  He believes, (or at least claims to, since it’s hard to imagine that anyone actually believes this), that …

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It’s such a different experience having Trump out of office. Obviously, there are people who resent Biden’s policies re: infrastructure, environmental responsibility, taxation, immigration reform, foreign policy, and perhaps even pandemic response.  But I would imagine that even most of …

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From this: In a recent incident, a high school hockey coach died after being punched outside of a bar in St. Paul, Minnesota, on April 17 following an argument about social distancing, the Star Tribune reported.

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ESG, i.e., funds that consider environmental, social, and governance issues are growing in popularity.  The term is used interchangeably with “socially responsible investing (SRI)” and “sustainable investing.” As anyone would have anticipated, greenwashing is a consequence of this demand; fund …

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All this is true, but sadly, these people occupy important positions in our government, and their decisions have disastrous effects on many millions of people, and, at a certain level, everyone on Earth. Their actions make the planet a more …

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I learned during a Zoom meeting yesterday that the acceptance rate at Ivy League schools is now 3 – 5% (i.e., the rejection rate is as high as 97%).  When you subtract out those who are admitted merely because their …

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Televangelist Pat Robertson makes a somewhat controversial statement here, doesn’t he? This is the level of thinking going on here in the good ol’ USA.

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Here’s a reminder that predicting the future is impossible.  That huge mainframe computer was the state of the art in IT just 70 years ago.  What the fellow is saying turns out to be perfectly true, but the point here …

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I found the meme here interesting, but I disagree.  Speaking for myself, I think most people who know me would say that I’m a kind person, but it’s not because I’ve been wronged; in fact, I can count on the …

What Makes People Kind? Read More »

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