What Jefferson said here sounds good until you put it in the context of what other philosophers have said on friendship, and think about how it applies, or fails to, in our own lives. Aristotle, for example, argued for the …
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Discussion on Electric Transportation Is Part of a Larger Topic
When asked what 2GreenEnergy is, I normally talk about what we’re doing to forward the cause of clean energy, but I quickly add that we’re about sustainability more generally. I want to ensure that we play a role in any …
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Embracing the Cause of Clean Energy
According to The Writer’s Almanac, today is the anniversary of the first official convention of the Republican Party, which was: … held in Jackson, Michigan, on this date in 1854. Nearly 10,000 people turned out for a meeting in protest …
Take a COOL Guess – the Fun Quiz on Clean Energy. Today’s Topic: Environmental Toxins
Question: How is it possible for the concentration of certain toxins to increase in our groundwater for several decades after those chemicals have been banned? For example, the concentration of soil disinfectant DCP (used heavily in the 1970s and finally …
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Celebrating the U.S. Constitution
Here’s a piece I wrote originally in 2009 for another website, but I wanted to make it available to 2GreenEnergy readers as well. 220 years after the birth of our beloved U.S. Constitution we see its basic tenets challenged from …
Financing Renewables – The Gap Between the Interests of Venture Capitalists and Institutional Investors
I don’t know how many readers check out Stephen Lacey’s podcasts on Renewable Energy World, but they’re absolutely terrific. Here’s a post I just wrote on this week’s episode, covering the gap between the interests of venture capitalists and those …
Pay It NOW — In Energy Policy — Or Anywhere Else — It's Wrong To Pass Burdens On
More people each day are disgusted with the course our civilization is taking. Whether your main concern is social injustice, proliferation of nuclear weapons, environmental ruination, white-collar criminality, the decay of morality, growing rates of addiction to recreational and psychiatric …
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