Proper incentives and deposits – all we really need to clean up the environment
The role of incentives in our lives is truly and tragically underestimated. When money is dangled in front of people, batten down the hatches because you’ll have no idea what you can unleash. (Consider a series of polls on the website Buzzfeed. People were asked how far they would go for 5 million dollars. Two […]
A new direction – energy wisdom/efficiency discussions must replace implausible political ones
There are certain fundamental rules of civilized behaviour most subscribe to so that we can all just get along. Far be it from me to catalog them all; I’m no poster child and am a remarkably bad dinner guest. Don’t ask. But should I ever find myself in those situations, I know that religion and […]
“You are always learning; there is a lot of grey; don’t take things for granted.”
title quote – Lisa Marie Presley Elvis Presley, according to what sounds like a really smart guy on Wikipedia, exploded onto the music scene in the 1950s with records that “contain the seeds of what rock & roll was, has been and most likely what it may foreseeably become.” Indeed, Presley was at the forefront […]
COVID-19 emphatically proves the necessity of hydrocarbons – we can do better but can’t do without
Social media has wandered a strange path in its short life. Initially, it was a wonder: Facebook enabled an infinitely better way for friends and family to keep in touch, or bands to connect with fans, or businesses to promote themselves, etc. Twitter was similar, but seemed pattered on Attention Deficit Disorder and introduced that […]
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