[Happy New Year, All!] Mark, a great friend of our son’s, visited all of us gathered at Christmas. He graduated from college nearly 7 years ago, and now works as a detective for the San Rafael, CA, PD. Striking up …
A Millennial’s View – Tesla, the “inexpensive” version Read more »
While waiting a few more days for the New Year… here’s what I think we’ll see in 2017. Top 5: California and China will lead the global green movement as the incoming U.S. federal government leadership seeks what’s clean about …
Great headline from FutureStructure: “Kinetic Tiles Bring New Meaning to Power Walk” See it at DuPont Circle in Washington, DC. Try it there. Or, maybe you walk over it regularly since its dedication last month? Just completed is the installation …
A subsidiary of a U.S.-based international corporation has agreed to plead guilty to 7 felony charges at a cost of $40M, the largest-ever criminal penalty assessed involving deliberate vessel pollution. Princess Cruise Lines managers have been cheatin’ and lyin’ about …
Did notice escape you that legislation was enacted into CA law last week that regulates greenhouse-gas emissions tied to livestock and dairy cow manure management…and organic waste and landfills? Reminiscent of the so-called rain tax (stormwater remediation fee) here in …
This quote comes from a recorded interview Hugh Hewitt had with Mr. Trump on September 21, 2015. (No Pinocchios!) And, there have been other interviews to the same effect. Mr. Trump has pledged to cancel U.S. participation in the Paris …
“I’m not a believer in man-made global warming.” –Donald Trump, President-elect Read more »
From Wilmington, DE, comes news of Chemours, a major chemicals company spun off from DuPont about 18 months ago, choosing to remain in the city. GE is relocating its world HQ from Fairfield, CT, to the Seaport District of downtown …
Millennial Workforce Shunning the ‘Burbs? How Some Leading Corporations Are Reacting Read more »
CarbonCureTM – Simply Better Concrete “Now CO2 from smokestacks can be permanently sequestered inside Ernest Maier concrete masonry.” “100K grey block absorb the same amount of CO2 as 110 full grown trees will absorb in a year.” Let’s call it “green …
Subtitle: “About Dreams, Hope and Community Transformation–Starbucks CEO & Co. too.” A much more recent alum of the graduate school I attended shows how she cares about the vitality of her community in this marvelous 6-minute TED Talk. She’s trained …
“In a land of glaciers, even optimism is receding” Appearing on “The World” page of a recent Washington Post edition, the subtitle to Tim Craig’s piece reads: “The villages of Pakistan’s scenic valleys are coming to terms with what life …