Category: Sustainability

As we all learn when we are young, some subjects of conversation are taboo, chief among them politics and religion. But what about societal disruption and collapse? According to 500+ scientists and other scholars, there is a real possibility that, …

Society May Be in the Process of Collapse, But You Didn’t Hear It from Me Read More »

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Someone asked a 2GreenEnergy reader: Why don’t you own an AR-15 yet? He responded: I don’t own an AR15 because the only reason one would buy one is to murder large groups of people very quickly. I do not intend …

Military Weapons in the Home Read More »

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And people say we have nothing to celebrate.  Horse hockey.  Rush Limbaugh is going off the air. For more than 30 years, Limbaugh, the country’s most popular incendiary radio talk show host, had been spewing his hate speech into millions …

From the Fresno Bee: “Limbaugh fueled the hate speech, Trump took it to new heights, Americans must end it” Read More »

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We’re surrounded by reminders of how 2020 has been a year of events that make no sense. Here’s a photo of a contemporary furniture design that underscores this very point.

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Imagine that a survey had been taken annually since the inception of the nation, in which 1000 randomly chosen Americans were asked if they agreed or disagreed with Melville’s statement here. I’m guessing that a large majority would have agreed …

“Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.” – Freya Stark, explorer and writer (1893-1993) Read More »

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You’ll not find a single organization on this planet more dedicated to environmental sustainability via the removal of waste in our lives than the Story of Stuff.  I met SoS founder Annie Leonard after a talk she gave a few …

Dedication to Environmental Sustainability Read More »

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This might not be the best day of the year to write a post about an atheist, but there is never a bad time to note what the late Christopher Hitchens thought about people like Donald Trump. The world isn’t …

Love and Hate Read More »

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C. S. Lewis is now a subject of discussion primarily by virtue of his adopting Christianity, given his former position as an avowed atheist.  But doesn’t this fixation on his religion seem like something of a shame, given that he …

C.S. Lewis Brought Us Great Thoughts, Reading Pleasures Read More »

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I like to think that the blog here at 2GreenEnergy.com is a set of instructions to a world that desperately needs them.  I’m not suggesting that anything here is profound, or even that it’s controversial; they are mostly ideas like: …

Planet Earth Isn’t Falling Into Line Read More »

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When western philosophy was in its infancy during the so-called pre-Socractic days, there were a great number of intellectual triumphs–not the least of which was that of Thales of Miletus (ca. 700 BCE).  Thales introduced the idea of the “arche,” …

It’s The First That Counts Most Read More »

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