Get Energy Smart! NOW!

Yet another guest post from the thoughtful BruceMcF. I’ve written several times about the direct potential of the Steel Interstate project to cut our oil imports by 10% by getting long haul freight trucking off the road. It would at the same time relieve the crushing burden imposed by long haul trucking on our over-worked, […]

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This is a guest post from the very thoughtful citisven providing a window on how to accelerate two-wheels as a component of answering our economic, energy, and environmental challenges. I went to a very interesting and inspiring presentation last week at San Francisco’s Public Library. The name of the event was Lessons from Amsterdam: How […]

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Yet another guest post from the thoughtful BruceMcF. We can tell that an energy policy is not aimed at ending our nation’s oil addiction in time when the speech presenting it follows up: The United States of America cannot afford to bet our long-term prosperity, our long-term security on a resource that will eventually run […]

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This guest post by Deborah Phelan brings food to the table — where it should be — for discussion. In ranking climate change last month as the highest risk facing the World in 2011, the WEF glitterati meeting at Davos also connected the proverbial dots between climate change and economic disparity (ranked 3), extreme weather […]

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Yet another valuable guest post from BruceMcF, whose thoughts re rails valuable role in fostering a robust, prosperous, climate-friendly future for America merit attention. Way back before the Super Bowl, the White House had a series of exciting announcements, covered at The Transport Politic under the heading The White House Stakes Its Political Capital on […]

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This guest post from Michael Conrad provides thoughts from a self-proclaimed “far from expert” perspective on how to tackle engaging with climate change denial. The Koch Brothers’ retreat, combined with the GOP going all out to block any environmentally responsible action has done a good job of reminding progressives of urgent need for campaign finance […]

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This cross-post from Steven D addresses, with some passion, Charles Krauthammer’s shallow and ignorance promoting sense of humor when it comes to the realities of climate change science.  Those who are rejecting science — as does Krauthammer — in their blind assertions of falsehoods and truthiness are exemplifying ideologically driven religious passion above scientific knowledge. […]

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BruceMcF is a thinker re rail transportation who merits heeding … in this guest post, he looks at Amtrak’s value as it faces the budgetary axe threat from the Republican Study Committee. The Republicans have won one of the established political Power Positions in American Politics, and so they propose to eliminate funding for Amtrak: […]

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This guest post from Veritas Curat (“the truth cures”) merits reading …  As currently structured, our economic system is defined simply: growth is good, stagnation bad, and contraction disastrous. In fact, the demand for ever-continuing growth faces Malthusian-like challenges about sustainability in terms of global resources. For a century, humanity’s growth has been propelled via […]

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This guest post from Veritas Curat (“the truth cures”) merits reading …  As currently structured, economics tell us that “the Earth’s not worth saving. “Socialism collapsed because it did not allow prices to tell the economic truth. Capitalism may collapse because it does not allow prices to tell the ecological truth.” – Oystein Dahle, former […]

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