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 …
Category: Sustainability
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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There Are People Who Care, And, Sadly, Others Who Make Fun of Them
We have a number of people here at 2GreenEnergy who share my concern that our civilization in on an unsustainable path, headed for ruins if it’s unable to fix certain particularly ominous environmental and social conditions. In response to a …
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We Can Always Use More Guest Bloggers
I eagerly encourage people to join our merry band of 150-or-so guest bloggers, though I warn that I sometimes cut up a bit in my correspondence with them. Here, Jeniffer Page writes: Hi, I would like to contribute a guest …
Why We Need To Try To Write with Some Level of Precision
Often, the problem we have in conversing with one another productively about the important issues of the day is equivocation in its formal sense, i.e., the fallacy that arises when we use words that have two different definitions, and then …
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Outlook: Bleak
It’s the birthday of Ray Bradbury, best remembered for his 1953 masterpiece “Fahrenheit 451,” who said,”I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.” Love it! What a brilliant human being. Can’t help but remind us of …
Wine Tasting and Environmentalism
Here’s a pic of my financial adviser, Glenn Koach, along with his wife Yuko and my wife Becky (right). We enjoy a variety of activities together, though they normally include tasting wine somewhere. Which brings me to the point of …
The Future of Eco-Friendly Food
I had my first encounter with what could be called “eco-friendly superfoods” when a second-grade classmate, Phillip Stahl, brought a box of chocolate-covered ants and crickets to school, and everyone took a sample. I can still remember the resounding “eeewwwwww” …
More on Wealth Inequality
Here’s something I just ran across on Facebook that made me laugh out loud. Of course, one could say that it would be funnier if it weren’t true. Long before the Donald Trump phenomenon, we were talking here about how …
Hazards of the Language
I’m sure there are readers here who share my enjoyment of subscriptions to various “word of the day” emails. This week’s theme for “A Word a Day” is contronyms, i.e., words that have two diametrically opposed definitions. The word “depthless,” for …
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