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My political life, other than the unending outrage over the Trump kakistocracy outrages, is dominated by the need to #FlipThe10th — to get rid of #ExtremistComstock and do my part for adding one D to the House.  With that in mind, it is hard with everything in life to be watching with detail races around the […]

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A decade ago, Google came out with its RE<C initiative. That formula: Renewable Energy less than Coal In short, an announced plan to invest to spark innovation and deployment of clean energy systems that would be less expensive than coal in traditional economic terms — without requiring inclusion of the substantial externality costs from exploiting […]

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BP’s chief economist, Spencer Dale, is perhaps one of those for who the old EF Hutton ad applies: when Spencer Dale speaks, people should listen. Thoughtful, substantive, and often incisive about what has happened, is happening, and might/potentially could happen in the energy sector. Dale’s presentations aren’t only substantive, but articulately engaging and done in […]

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Let’s be clear: bottled water is an ever growing problem around the world. Rather than using tap water, where it is safe (perhaps with a filter), or creating good public water systems, an ever-growing number of people are getting their H20 in plastic water bottles. That plastic contributes to climate change (lots of oil to […]

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Plastics, plastics everywhere. WARNING: DO NOT TAKE THIS DIARY AS REASON TO GO WITH BOTTLED WATER. Writ large, tap is better than bottled. Bottled water has even more plastics. Having the opportunity to turn on the tap and have clean, drinkable water is core to a well-run, civilized society. “Drinkable”, regretfully, all too often means […]

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