From Grist.org: The infamous Koch brothers have bankrolled climate deniers, propped up polluting industries, and even tried to turn the black community pro-fossil fuel. But, as a recent New York Times story shows, the billionaire conservatives have been steadily exerting pressure against public …
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As mentioned previously, 2GreenEnergy “headquarters” is located in Santa Ynez, Santa Barbara County, CA. Where the city of Santa Barbara is extremely progressive, Santa Ynez is very “God and country,” and it’s obvious everywhere one looks, from pictures of John …
It’s the 502nd anniversary of the act of defiance for which Martin Luther is known today: nailing a copy of his 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Castle church, marking the beginnings of the Protestant Reformation and its …
A reader sent me this blurb on the left. Sorry for the profanity, but I thought I’d publish it and make this comment. This is cute and funny, but let’s keep it in perspective. No one with any sense is …
There are so many features of American life I’ve just never been able to understand. The popularity of NASCAR and professional wrestling. Now it’s the death threats against 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg. She’s just a girl with a devotion …
This is funny, but what’s truly at fault here is that corporate governance is necessarily about maximizing profit; these people aren’t at liberty to act otherwise. More correctly, if a CEO of a publicly traded company were to act otherwise, …
Pictured and quoted here, Rabindranath Tagore “was a Bengali polymath, poet, musician, and artist from the Indian subcontinent. He reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.” I’m going to take a moment and let what he wrote here …
A year or two after the launch of 2GreenEnergy in the summer of 2009, I got an unexpected phone call from a guy who said, “Hello, Craig. You don’t know me, but I’m — (I can’t recall his name), an …
In the U.S., we talk about encouraging the use of bicycles as a way to reduce VMT (vehicle miles traveled), but we do very little to actually encourage this transition.
Speaking about climate change mitigation and other efforts to achieve some level of environmental responsibility, senior energy analyst Glenn Doty writes, “I would guess that the election of Trump set the world back ~6 years, assuming we get rid of …
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