Sabine gives the seven sins of greenwashing in a 17 min. YouTube video. The text follows. 1. The Sin of the Hidden Tradeoff:: When a product is marketed as green based on some environmental benefit but other often bigger issues go unmentioned. A typical example is batteries for electric vehicles. They don’t release CO2 emissions
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I hope you can view this: https://www.facebook.com/reel/828276078710781?mibextid=9drbnH
Elon Musk says population collapse is a bigger threat than climate change. Is he right? This is a very good article on a number of different aspects of population change. It gives a lot of good statistics. Also makes aware that that the population isn’t as all important as the resource utilization. The Western world,
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This is just the early beginning of improvements in air quality and improved health. We just need to hurry up the changeover about a dozen times faster. Researchers Link Electric Cars With Better Air Quality & Improved Health
That first one, getting out of your comfort zone, is the most important. Others: Learned Helplessness – “I can’t do it.” The Path of Least Resistance – always looking for an easy way to acheve a result. But nothing worthwhile can be achieved easily. https://youtube.com/shorts/f9YgK2Fwj6Q?feature=share4
In 1966 I completed basic training and went to Ft. Monmouth, NJ for 10 months of Radar repair training. The last half of the course we got to work on the actual Radars in *that* barn-like building in the photo. I was on the graveyard shift. There were birds flying around up in the rafters
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Manufactured outrage Ideologues hyperpartisan Reactionary kickback Anti-CRT Anti-Critical Race Theory “”There _is_ a crisis in free speech and academic freedom in publicly funded education, and the crisis is not coddled undergraduate students. It’s increasing political interference with what should be free, relatively self-governing academic affairs. As I mentioned in the book, for years, the Goldwater
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I thought about this in the past, and it made sense to me that when there are inequalities in a system affecting human rights, the system should be able to make modifications to reduce the inequalities. For instance, if the percentage of a race is over- or underrepresented in the higher education system, then it’s
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The Chinese are making PV panels in the 4 asian countries to bypass tariffs and ‘cheat’ the US. Where does the tariff money go to? I don’t know. But it should go to the domestic PV panel makers that are complaining they can’t compete. The money would compensate so that they can compete against the
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This is elementary. https://cleantechnica.com/2022/01/31/learning-chinese-be-a-better-cleantech-advocate-or-investor-in-30-minutes-daily-part-1/ https://cleantechnica.com/2022/01/31/learning-chinese-be-a-better-cleantech-advocate-or-investor-in-30-minutes-daily-part-2/ https://cleantechnica.com/2022/01/31/learning-chinese-be-a-better-cleantech-advocate-or-investor-in-30-minutes-daily-part-3/
