Another guest post from the extremely thoughtful and insightful BruceMcF. Bruce’s thoughts, writ large, about transport policy and, more specifically, electrified rail merit attention and action. If we reduce our oil consumption by 5% a year over each of the next twenty years, that allows use to be free of our oil addiction if we […]
Local Electric Transport and the Energy Independence Levy
May 17th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Tags: electricity · Energy · guest post · rail · the five percent solution
Missing the menacing clouds in the raindrops
May 17th, 2010 · 3 Comments
The obliviousness about humanity’s impact on weather patterns due to climate change continues for all too many in the media. The Washington Post‘s Howard Kurtz provides today’s example. Kurtz reports on the near media blackout when it comes to the recent (massive) Nashville floods. Kurtz, just like the Post’s reprinting of the weak AP coverage, […]
Tags: climate change · Energy · Global Warming · journalism