Category: Lifestyle

Electric Car Breakthrough

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For some time, I’ve encouraged people to change to e-car driving.  In addition to eliminating fossil fuel emissions, it’s far less expensive to own, drive, and maintain.  Just as solar panels – as they grew in use, became the least expensive way to generate electricity – electric cars are fast doing the same.  I’ve driven one for 8 years, and the claims are true.  Here’s one more “nail in the coffin” for gas guzzling, polluting cars.  I’ll add a new idea afterwards.… Keep reading

The Human Side of Sustainability

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In recent days, in addition to news articles of wild fires in huge portions of Earth, I’ve seen reports of current catastrophic states-of-being that even point to our ability to sustain life on Earth.  While I track all sorts of things related to sustainability, these new reports sent me into a funk.  But as Sustainable Living includes both living in harmony with Earth and having great quality-of-life experience, I selected this article for this week’s blog.  It’s much longer than usual, but delightful.… Keep reading

Ocean Plastic Litter

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I used to think it would be difficult to produce so huge an amount of litter that it would actually screw up our vast oceans.  Clearly, when we see a river jammed with pollution, emitting a foul smell, and even on fire (as happened near Cleveland,) we eventually take action.  But the ocean is so vast, how can we possibly create that much pollution?

Well, we’re doing it.  And because plastics simply don’t break down very quickly, they become a hazard to marine life … which also happens to be a major source for our food. … Keep reading

California Air Conditioning

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Here’s a departure from our usual blogs, a report that looks back almost three years at climate changing challenges to our lifestyle, and how we’ve dealt with those challenges.  I’ll add comments afterwards.

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California’s air conditioner-driven blackouts are only the start

 

James Temple

MIT Technology Review

1 September 2020

 

Rolling blackouts: As record-breaking heat waves baked Californians last month, the collective strain of millions of air conditioners forced the state’s grid operators to plunge hundreds of thousands of households into darkness.… Keep reading

Supreme Court Climate Action

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Everyone “talks the talk” about taking action to stop global warming and the destruction of our planet.  And some gains have been made, here and there.  But coordinated action on the parts of every major government has not happened, for any number of the usual reasons.  Here’s a legal action that may carry sufficient weight to force needed change.  I’ll add comments afterwards.

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‘A Win for the Planet!’:

 

Dutch Supreme Court Issues Landmark Ruling Mandating Climate Action

 

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Common Dreams

December 20, 2019

 

The nonprofit that brought the case called it “a groundbreaking decision that confirms that individual governments must do their fair share to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”… Keep reading