The Amazon Rainforest houses 10% of the world’s species and helps to regulate the global climate, which is why 2GreenEnergy joins many thousands of environmental groups in an effort to halt deforestation in this critical corner of the globe.
Category: Sustainability
Why Are Toxic Chemicals In Use Here that are Banned Throughout the Rest of the World?
A new study published in the open access journal Environmental Health reports that the U.S. has failed to ban many dangerous and toxic pesticides that are banned throughout the rest of the world, and “Science Rocks” asks, “Why has China, …
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Today’s Paradoxes
American life in the early 21st Century comes with some interesting paradoxes, and several of them surround law and order. One might think, for example, that those charged with the responsibility of thwarting crime might be the most vocal advocates for …
Tagged with: gun rights
Free Society at the Brink: Investigative Journalism in Danger
The arrest and torture of investigative journalist Ivan Golunov at the hands of Russian law enforcement, coming as it does, on the heels of the U.S.’s attempt to extradite Wikileaks’ Julian Assange and sentence him to 170+ years in prison, …
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Beavers: Rockstars of the Ecosystem
Here’s a recent piece from the Sierra Club explaining how and why beavers improve every ecosystem into which they make their magnificence present.
Tagged with: sequestering atmospheric carbon dioxide
Threats to Human Civilization
A friend and I were talking about the threat to our civilization posed by runaway artificial intelligence; I recommended neuroscientist Sam Harris’s TED Talk on the subject (see below). He writes: “It’s excellent. Though I don’t have a well-structured thought process …
EPA Busily Reversing Environmental Progress
These people may be evil, but they’re anything but incompetent. For those keeping score of how effectively the Environmental Protection Agency is destroying our planet by rolling back regulations that formerly protected it, here’s a handy chart that provides the …
Tagged with: Reversing Environmental Progress
21st Century Living Is “Extreme”
American culture has always had its extreme fads, like flagpole-sitting or goldfish-eating; the pic here featuring “extreme tree trimming” from the 1880s is an example. That’s hilarious, IMO. But these are curiosities. On a far broader scale, we’re starting to see the …
Meeting Basic Human Rights Is the Deal of the Century
Exactly what are “basic human rights?” Where do they begin, and where do they end? It’s a matter open to debate, to be sure. What’s more a matter of fact than opinion, however, is that this society shoots itself in …
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The Impact of One’s Career on Humankind
Now that my kids have entered the workforce, I get to reflect on what they’re doing with their lives and the impact they will ultimately have on human civilization. I’m very glad that neither of them works for Nestle (or …
