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The Political Affiliation of Conservation
I was talking with a friend the other day who asked me about the political affiliation of conservationists. After all, Theodore Roosevelt, the father of modern conservationalism, served as president...
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Our Energy Policy Should Be Rooted in Logic
I just started a fine historic novel that my brother gave me for Christmas, The Hangman’s Daughter; the first 100 pages are really good. In addition to the story itself, a murder mystery set in...
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Climate Change, Women’s Rights, and Campaign Finance Reform
Here’s a conversation I’m having with a friend on the unlikely combination of climate change and women’s rights that I thought readers might find interesting. Friend: Check this out. Really??? Don’t...
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Science Can Save Us, If We’re Wise Enough To Use It
I’m sure many 2GreenEnergy readers here in the U.S. watch our Public Broadcasting System (PBS), a nonprofit organization that says about itself: “PBS and our member stations are America’s largest...
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Climate Change and Our Regard for Science
Earlier today, I was driving to a lunch meeting with a potential investor in our clean energy investment opportunities, and I had the good fortune to find a lecture by Buddhist philosopher Alan Watts...
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Will a Solar PV Tree Offer Advantages?
The reader who asked earlier about wearable solar PV clarifies: I agree with you that the direction for these threads for wearable power generation is a dead end or at least a very low power, niche...
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Using Logic in Understanding Present-Day Politics
As Aristotle pointed out 2300 years ago in his law of non-contraction, two thoughts that oppose one another cannot both be true. Given that, consider the following two assertions: a) Writing on behalf...
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Broken Friendships in the Age of Trump
What Jefferson said here sounds good until you put it in the context of what other philosophers have said on friendship, and think about how it applies, or fails to, in our own lives. Aristotle, for...
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Talking About Our Accomplishments
As we make our way through the most pathetic few years in U.S. history, let me offer you the meme to the left. The person who posted this saw no irony, even though I wonder whom he would name as...
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Staffing Shortage?
As Aristotle taught us, these accounts can’t both be true. It makes one wonder: Who’s lying? Here’s a hint, provided by a reader: The owner of the franchise is an animal killer. Kills elephants &...
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Who Gets Saved From Perdition, and Why?
A reader asked me if I feel sorry for the billions of people believed to be burning in hell because they had the bad luck to be born on this Earth before the birth of Christ, and thus were unable to...
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A Few Words from the Great Aristotle
Aristotle brings up a most interesting point here. A college friend of mine used to go off alone into the mountains for weeks at a time during vacations, which fulfilled him greatly. I tried it once...
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Honoring Our Educators
Much speculation has gone into pinning down exactly where American education fell off the rails. We might infer that Aristotle would point to how our teachers are both underpaid and rendered impotent...
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