I’m going to take a wild guess and suggest that the guy living here doesn’t have a 75″ flat screen TV on which he watches Monday Night Football with his beer-swilling friends. Henry David Thoreau said, “If a man loses pace with …
Category: Sustainability
How We Think and Behave: It Gets Weird
“All men desire by nature to know,” Aristotle begins his best-known work, The Nicomachean Ethics. “The Ethics,” as it’s normally called, explores man’s relationship to his fellows and the optimum way to live our lives.
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Reforestation
The painting at the left is by my favorite living artist, Maurizio Rega, of Cava Dei Tirreni, in Campania, southern Italy, near Naples. As you check out his work, you’ll note that he does a lot of trees.
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Environmental Responsibility Means Dealing with Apathy and Distraction
I have the thought expressed in the meme here constantly. In addition to catastrophic climate change, we have the retrogression into fascism and tribalism, genocide and mass starvation, all of which receive a small fraction of the attention we pay …
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Are Plant-Based Meats Healthy?
True to form, one of our frequent commenters cherry-picks a few aspects of plant-based meat that are sub-optimum for health. In fact, here’s one he missed: Both the Impossible Burger and the Beyond Burger have more than five times as …
Edible Insects
2GreenEnergy super-support Gary Tulie writes from England: Edible insects have slowly been gaining acceptance in Europe as a more sustainable alternative to main stream meats. Now Sainsburys, one of the biggest supermarket chains in the UK has begun to stock …
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Animal Agriculture
Question: What is the Alliance of World Scientists? How many scientists from how many countries participate? What are they beseeching us to do?
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Destroying the Amazon
Question: The far-right nationalist Jair Bolsonaro, now president-elect of Brazil, said he will lift existing restrictions on land development. In what year did Brazil require all landowners to keep a percentage of their terrain forested–ranging from 20% in some parts of the country …
Filling the Open Seat at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
When the grid in the U.S. was established more than 100 years ago, its purpose was to provide electrical power cheaply and reliably. Now, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has a somewhat wider mission statement, i.e., to ensure “reliable, …
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The United States Need To Halt Its Decline
Here’s John F. Kennedy speaking at Robert Frost’s funeral: (Frost) coupled poetry and power, for he saw poetry as the means of saving power from itself.
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