What Gandhi said here is interesting. FWIW, most of us are not afraid that Trump is going to be here forever; we believe that through some mechanism, the United States will eventually restore some sort of rule by law. I’m …
Category: Sustainability
Gandhi: Tyrants Always Fail
Tagged with: Gandhi, Trump's, Trump's brazen criminality, Trump's cruelty, Trump's pathological lying, Trump's petty vindictiveness, Trump's roadblock to climate change mitigation and countless other environmental imperatives, Trump's support of dictatorships, United States will eventually restore rule by law
Trump Administration V. First Amendment Protection of the Free Press
From this article: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo defended the State Department’s decision to deny NPR press credentials for his trip to Europe following his confrontation with reporter Mary Louise Kelly, stating in an interview in Kazakhstan Sunday that it …
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U.S. Bureau of Land Management Working Its Hardest To Sell Public Property To Drilling, Mining Enterprises
William Pendley, acting head of the BLM, appears to be headed for reappointment without any involvement from the American public. OK, so what’s the issue? Perry’s decades-long career as a property-rights lawyer whose focus was removing federal control of the …
Bernie-Bashing
The mainstream, corporate owned media can’t get out of its own way to push voters away from Bernie Sanders; it’s disgusting how blatantly obvious this is. And I’m not talking about Fox News; I mean MSNBC, CNN and the like. …
Planting Trees
As we’ve discussed more than a few times here, rebuilding Earth’s trees is one of two things this civilization can do in its attempt to ensure its continued existence. Stopping deforestation in the Amazon sounds like an impossible task, but …
From Guest Blogger Emily Folk: Can 3D Printing Be Considered a Green Technology?
Manufacturing may find a greener alternative in 3D printing. It’s no secret that traditional manufacturing methods aren’t exactly eco-friendly. As 3D printing becomes more prevalent, some hail it as a more sustainable choice. But what about it makes it greener?
“Smart Water”
Something inside me recoils when I see people coming out of (enormous American retail chain) Costco with cases of bottled water.
Tagged with: bottled water, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standards, plastic its way into our food system as microplastics, plastic killing marine life, plastic washing around with the ocean currents, plastic will be around of hundreds or perhaps thousands of years, quality of tap water in the United States is generally good
The Truth Suffers
We need to consider the words of George Orwell when acts of petty vengeance are taken against people who obey subpoenas and tell the truth under oath. Yes, their words resulted in damage to the U.S. president, a man who …
Dead Asylum Seekers Are Not an Issue Here
A mere 138 dead Salvadorans, butchered by the violence they were desperately trying to escape? We can live with that. What we can’t deal with, to use the words of Donald Trump verbatim, is the “Hispanic invasion of Texas.” He’s …
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Kids’ Minds Are Sponges, and We Decide What They’ll Absorb
When I become a grandfather, it’s (vaguely) possible that I’ll be consulted once more as to what objects belong in a child’s playroom. At left is a good example of what, IMO, doesn’t belong there: training in robo-consumerism. When you …
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