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Category: Sustainability
Degrading and Debasing the United States of America on a Daily Basis
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Wine Making and the Environment
Here’s an article, written in Spanish, that discusses wine-making and how it can be made more sustainable with the use of renewable energy. With all the vineyards around here, it’s hard not to learn a little bit about the wineries …
Environmental Activists at Enormous Risk
Violence against environmental activists is skyrocketing. 350.org founder Bill McKibben receives death threats regularly, though, to my knowledge, there have been no attempts on his life. When I met him a few months ago, he seemed assured, though I don’t …
Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Your Food
I’ve known Jigar Shah for about ten years now; in 2015 he was good enough to write a testimonial that I used on the back cover of my book “Bullish on Renewable Energy: 14 Reasons that Clean Energy Investors Can’t …
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Americans Seem To Be OK on Certain Forms of Terrorism
Americans enjoy the rights to peaceful assembly and free speech that are protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and the right to bear arms that is protected by the Second. But are these limitless? This thug is …
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Destroying Education and Critical Thinking Key To the Success of Authoritarian Governments
It’s not often I quote U.S. military commanders, but this statement from now-deposed Defense Secretary James Mattis is excellent. It’s interesting how many data points are aligning in U.S. politics, starting with the destruction of public education, including content from …
U.S. Thumbs Its Nose at International Treaties, Human Decency
Later today, the Trump administration will announce that it has loosened restrictions on the use of landmines, rolling back an Obama-era policy that restricted the use of landmines to the Korean Peninsula. The new policy is expected to allow the …
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Treasury Secretary Mnuchin Continually Insists Trump’s Tax Cuts Will Pay for Themselves Despite Consistent Evidence To the Contrary
This article describes how the U.S. Treasury Secretary continues to insist Trump’s tax cuts aren’t blowing up the national debt, even though this is clearly untrue. A couple of points:
Annual U.S. War Spending: $1.2 Trillion–But There’s (Partially) Good News
Well, let’s put all this into perspective. Trump partially paid for this by kicking 700K hungry people off food stamps. “Partially” is a key word there, however; it saved a whopping $1.32 billion, or 0.11% of war spending.
Former Director of the U.S. National Park Service Sets Sights on New Goals in Environmental Justice
As I wrote yesterday, I recently had the good fortune to meet Jonathan Jarvis (pictured at left), 18th Director of the U.S. National Park Service under Barack Obama. I thought readers would be interested to know that he now teaches …
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