Transportation: Should more people be riding bikes?
Read an item this morning promoting more people to ride bikes to work and to stores. Which reminded me of a key issue that goes ignored… Look at most urban…
How to pretend you are saving money by purchasing Electric Buses
At first glance, this sounds good – high upfront costs but dramatic savings in operational/variable costs: From the PGE site, we learn that diesel buses are about $90K to buy…
Demographics 15: “The Unexpected Future”
The “experts” who predict the future were wrong again: We are entering an unanticipated reality—an era of slow population growth and, increasingly, demographic decline that will shape our future in…
I already do: Should we recycle urine as a nitrogen fertilizer?
My house is on a septic system. Recycled urine is why my backyard grass is striped with intense green sections! Natural bacteria process the urine too. “Experts” says we should…
Manufactured fake meat industry’s growth stumbles
Market growth is now stagnant or shrinking: “The industry in general is struggling, and Beyond isn’t helping,” Rupesh Parikh, senior equity research analyst at Oppenheimer & Co., told MarketWatch. Source:…
Zoning changes: Goal is to make U.S. cities similar to old European cities
At the core of this housing supply action plan is a federal push to budge local zoning codes that restrict or forbid apartments across vast swaths of the country. Strict…
By age 23, climate/fossil fuels protester has spent 5 years traveling the world to exotic locations
The female protestor who sparked fury today when she glued herself to priceless artwork in the National Gallery has been accused of being a jet-setting sailor who has racked up…
Germany shut down its nuclear plants and replaced them with coal plants
Face plant. Germany says it will compensate for a cut in Russian gas supply by increasing the burning of coal — the most carbon-intensive fossil fuel in terms of emissions.…
Follow up: Hunga-Tonga Won’t Effect Weather or Climate
January 2022: Explosive Hunga-Tonga volcano will not affect climate Scientists have long known that large volcanic eruptions can have an immediate and years-long impact on the global climate, and an…
Elon musk correctly says world population is relatively concentrated
Elon Musk is correct here: To illustrate, it is said that the U.S. population uses about 7% of the land for where people live, but even that is misleading: About…