Renewable Friday: Bernie's NEW Green New Deal
On Thursday morning, Bernie Sanders announced a plan to get to 100% renewable energy by 2030, and complete Carbon Neutrality by 2050, a plan that is intended to pay for itself in 15 years. This speech...
View ArticleState AGs, Phone Companies Tackle Spam Calls
And about time, too, since the Feds are hopeless.State attorneys general take aim at robocalls: 'Bad actors' days 'will soon be numbered'“Robocalls are a scourge — at best, annoying, at worst, scamming...
View ArticleThe Annotated Republican Principles, Er, Dog Whistles, a Good News Thursday...
Good News regulars will wonder, what is so good about Republican lies and lying liars? (HT Al Franken) Nothing, really, except that this time it means they are going to lose bigly. Not just a...
View ArticleRenewable Friday: How the President Could REALLY Get at China
Forget tariffs. Tariff wars are a mug's game. Go for the coal-fired power plants in poor countries. Muscle in on China's debt-trap loan-sharking diplomacy. That would get their attention, and they...
View ArticleRenewable Friday: Changing Minds
On issues of bogus fear and hatred, the Trumpian base is utterly immovable. But that is not the case for all Trump voters.Who recently changed their minds on climate change, and whyA recent Monmouth...
View ArticleGood News Roundup for Wednesday, 9/11
9/11 was unnecessary. Terrorism in general is unnecessary. We have beaten many kinds, and we know how to do it this time. Some of us.Yes, 9/11 was one of the greatest disasters in US history, one that...
View ArticleGood News Thursday: Calling Out Christian Terrorism
Recent Good News is that the media are making some progress on the thought of calling White Supremacist terrorism what it is. The bad news is that they still refuse to speak of Christian terrorism. But...
View ArticleRenewable Friday: CNN Climate Crisis Town Hall
Democratic Presidential candidates have greatly expanded their plans to deal with the Global Warming crisis since I wrote Renewable Friday: Inslee's Got a Plan, and Beto's Got a Plan, and All God's...
View ArticleRenewable Friday: Farmers and Ranchers for a Green New Deal
Take that, Denialists. What you thought was our Red state politics just changed while you weren't looking.Gizmodo: Farmers and Ranchers Just Came Together to Support the Green New DealA national...
View ArticleRenewable Friday: Oil and Gaslighting
Greenwashing by oil and gas companies is the latest form of gaslighting by AGW Denialists, after several years with no really new lies since the Paris Accords of 2015. Republicans, along with the...
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Renewable Friday: Al Gore Breakthrough in NYT
Al Gore: The Climate Crisis Is the Battle of Our Time, and We Can WinI have often complained that the MSM won't tell us that we are winning on Global Warming. No more. Here is Al Gore in the Op-Ed...
View ArticleThursday Good News: The Third Reconstruction is Coming
The former Confederate states are all going to rejoin the Union, willingly this time, and we are all going to come together to make it happen. This is the thesis of Bishop William Barber's book The...
View ArticleRenewable Friday: Rachel Maddow's New Book, Blowout
The richest, the most corrupt, the most destructive industry on Earth is oil and gas, even without talking about Global Warming. Coal tries, but they don't play in the same league of international...
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EV Tuesday: Sources and Methods, With Poll
Don't worry, it's a loop. The cat isn't that insane. Nor the Roomba.Welcome to the first EV Tuesday from the EV Revolutions group. We will look at every kind of electric vehicle, from scooters to ships...
View ArticleRenewable Friday: Oil and Gaslighting II
Yes, folks, it's Oil and Gaslighting time again. We looked at the Power Past Impossible campaign not long age. This time we are going to look at a different industry association, the oxymoronic Oil and...
View ArticleEV Tuesday on an Actual Tuesday: Picking the High-Hanging Fruit - Electric...
Due to a queueing glitch, the EV Tuesday Diary for today was posted on Sunday. You can read it here.EV Tuesday: Picking the High-Hanging Fruit - Electric Aircraft are Landing SoonThose who missed it...
View ArticleRenewable Friday: AOC, Cities' Global Climate Summit, PreCOP25
What can you and I do about Global Warming? Yes, electric cars and efficient houses, but what about the larger scale? Well, you can act locally in your city, and nationally in your country, and...
View ArticleEV Tuesday: The Future Electric Car Market
More than 5 million electric cars were sold in 2018, and there are projections on the order of 29 million to be sold in 2030. Various countries are banding together to get up to 100 million electric...
View ArticleGood News Thursday: Birthday Parties for the Homeless
Kossack Getting1 sent me this wonderful story: High school senior throws birthday parties for children in homeless sheltersxYouTube VideoSeventeen-year-old Tanvi Barman spends most of her free time...
View ArticleRenewable Friday: COP25 Uproar
Chile announced yesterday that it will not be able to host the COP25 climate conference in December. Chilean politics in general, and the city of Santiago in particular, have been turned upside down...
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