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Global Warming concern troll Senator Lisa Murkowski has fallen in the Republican primary to a anti-science syndrome suffering hater of a livable economic system, who despises government, and represents fringe extreme views that simply don’t meet basic American ideals or the understanding/beliefs of most Americans. If Murkowski had prevailed in the primary, she almost [...]

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When it comes to the necessity of facing down pollution in the nation’s electricity system and other major polluting industries, it is hard to read recent Obama Administration action as anything other than a strong statement to leading environmental organizations:
Stay out of our way, we don’t need your help … we don’t need it.
With monumental [...]

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TLC …
Tender, loving, care.
What beautiful words.
We can all use some TLC.
And, looking at peat fires smoking out Moskovites, flooded Pakistanis, overheated Washingtonians, and other climate chaos victims around the world, it has to be clear to all but the anti-science syndrome sufferring haters of a livable economic system that our planet needs some TLC as [...]

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Few people earn a living (or even make money) running a blog site — especially not one that focuses on issues of substance.  People do it for passion, love, ego, boredom, concern for public service … any number of reasons. And, in almost all cases, doing this costs money from indirect (opportunity costs) to direct [...]

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Perhaps the best single piece of advice for societies comes down to one word: generations. To add richness, expand this to three words: think seven generations.
Seven generations … Writ large, keeping this in mind when making deciosns about societal investments and structure creates a sustainable space which offers the chance for an indefinite strengthening [...]

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There is a debate, subdued at times, between various approaches toward changing the planet to the better. There are those who layout the fundamental flaws of capitalism and the huge complexity of market failures (see Sick Planet) which, they explain, require us to move forward to something else to have a chance to survive climate [...]

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Our challenges, opportunities, and solution paths are complex and interrelated. Yet, all too often, we see them individually, not linked and interacting.
Last year, in response to a blog post entitled My New High Efficiency Toilet, a commentator wrote
I don’t have low flow shower heads, but I rinse up, turn off the water, lather up, then [...]

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On reading the opening paragraphs of Robert Bryce’s author’s note, I felt a kindred soul:
.. just how lucky I am. There is no more complex or fascinating topic than energy. … the scale of energy use and the complexity and the importance of the energy business are unmatched by any industry. The [...]

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Coming not that far from Bill’s neck of the woods, NB41 is a very thoughtful and knowledgeable advocate of wind power … working hard for helping make wind power a reality.  This guest post is his appeal to Bill McKibben to advocate for feed-in-tariffs as a tool that works to get clean energy expansion accelerated.  [...]

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The abysmal failure for US Senate movement forward on climate change mitigation legislation has many fathers and mothers, many to blame. And, the blame game is moving around … along with lots of CYA discussions. To a certain extent, the pointing fingers and ‘who me’ exercises can get a bit exaggerated because while there [...]

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