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A Cleaner, Greener Missouri

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 Posted in Activism, Climate Change, Environment, Government, Technology | 2 Comments »

I (still) work for a bank. Needless to say, the past few weeks have been tumultuous. Onward and upward.  With only 47 days left until this country elects its first black president or two people who will further marginalize America on a global ...

Pick Your Cancer

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 Posted in Energy, Ideas, Politics, Sustainability, Technology | 1 Comment »

Ohhhh 'bama, what have you done? Offshore drilling? Really? Our cancer isn't the dependency on foreign oil, it's the dependency on oil period, and other fossil fuels, from wherever they hail. Oil taken from our backyards, or coal from our stripped lands, ...

Personal Mobility Appliances

Friday, August 1st, 2008 Posted in Technology, Uncategorized | No Comments »

Bradley Berman, editor of hybridCARS, published an interesting commentary on Reuters yesterday called, "In 2018, expect personal mobility appliances". The article is as much about technology as it is about perception. It's short too, so please go read it, but ...

It’s Electric, Boogie, Woogie, Woogie!

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 Posted in Sustainability, Technology, Transportation | 2 Comments »

I've searched the web to get on a waiting list for an electric car and have been disappointed. Are these manufacturers that far from delivering a working product that they're not even taking names? Shame on them. If anyone knows ...

Who Turned Out The Lights?

Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in Capitalism, Economy, Environment, Technology | 1 Comment »

Apparently it was the Bureau of Land Management, which said recently that an extensive study was needed to determined the environmental effects of the construction of large solar plants in the Western U.S. Helping the environment getting in the way ...