According to the Writer’s Almanac, it was on this date in 1838 that Frederick Douglass boarded a train to escape from slavery. Douglass, a statesman of amazing wisdom and courage, is best known to us today for these lines: “Power concedes nothing …
Category: Sustainability
Unfortunately, We Don’t Give a Damn
I volunteer on Quora.com to answer questions on renewable energy, and, even though I signed up for that specific category, I come across some really stimulating queries that are totally unrelated. Today, for instance, someone asked: What’s the weirdest aspect …
From Guest Blogger Dimitris Papadopoulos: The Anthropocene Epoch: Limiting the Environmental Impact of Business
When you own your small or medium-sized business, it’s tempting to assume that allegations about the energy-guzzling corporate monster don’t apply to you. That’s a label for the multinationals and commercial giants that have the budgets to actually do something …
From Guest Blogger Brooke Chaplan: Improve the Environment By Growing Better Veggies in Your Own Garden
Creating a successful vegetable garden can be intimidating at first. You have to consider everything from the space you have, the seeds you can grow, and the soil type you have available. Even when it seems like everything is in …
Compassion In Short Supply
Albeit off-topic, I thought I’d post this all-too typical conversation I’m having with an acquaintance on Facebook. She posted a video of some ISIS people brutalizing their captives, and writes: This is Islam in the real world! NO FILTER NO …
Those Who Predict the Collapse of Human Civilization Have Been Wrong In the Past. But Does That Mean They’re Wrong Now?
Frequent commenter MarcoPolo writes in response to my piece “Ian Bremmer’s Frightening Position on Climate Change” as follows: For the entire history of human civilization, an impending apocalypse has been an enormously popular prediction. The fact that none has actually occurred, …
Tagged with: advanced nuclear, doomsayers, efficiency solutions, Elizabeth Kolbert’s book "The Sixth Extinction", Ian Bremmer's Frightening Position on Climate Change, improving/reducing animal husbandry, oil companies, Phasing out fossil fuels as rapidly as practically possible, population quintupling (from 2 billion to 10 billion) in a period of only 100 years, production of meat, temperature of the Earth increasing, universally available contraception
Notice To All 2GreenEnergy Readers
Just got this from a friend, and I thought I’d pass it on to you. It’s true, btw.
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From Guest Blogger Dixie Somers: Five Green Services to Start Using Right Now
If you want to reduce your carbon footprint and help the environment, you can switch to using green home services that will enable you to create a more eco-friendly living space. Here are five of the top green services you …
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Be The Change
The reason you’re reading this right now is that you, like me, feel the duty to change the world for the better; this is a core aspect of who we are as people, regardless of the size of the contribution …
Understanding the Subject of Sustainability from Two Opposite Directions
Here’s a short post in response to the altercation between two frequent commenters here, MarcoPolo and Cameron. To summarize this beef in a sentence, Cameron feels passionately that our civilization is headed for a fall due to its shortsightedness on …
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