In our increasingly technocratic society, on a limited income, how/can I live within my ecological means and enjoy peace between my ears?
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After I posted “Aiming for Protective Conditions—if a developer proposes “green” (solar and/or battery energy storage) facilities near you,” an astute reader clarified that in a capitalist system, a county commission’s job is not to protect the environment or create safety mechanisms.
If a developer wants to install a utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) facility and/or battery energy storage (BESS) near you, consider yourself blessed.
You know SpaceX—the enterprise Elon Musk founded in 2002 to improve ordinary peoples’ access to outer space and to colonize Mars? As I write, the upper stage of a discarded Falcon 9 Space X rocket barrels (unplanned) toward the Moon at 5400 miles per hour.
This is about regulations around industrial processes that ravage wildlife and public health.
In my teens, an old man told me, “If you follow just one of the Ten Commandments, the rest will take care of themselves.”
In 2018, when I met Soumya Dutta, co-founder of India Climate Justice, he explained that the human population increased four-fold in the 20th century—from 1.6 to 6.1 billion people.
In the age of artificial intelligence, which voice of authority carries more weight? As AI reshapes how people receive information, we’re all asking How do you evaluate a source that cannot show its work?
Call this the time for learning about international supply chains—and reducing our dependence on them.
First, the encouraging stories: #1 Ida Huddleston and her daughter Delsia Bare value feeding people.
After 15 years of renting a four-room house and learning, from tending its flower and vegetable gardens, that home is about connection to land, my husband and I need a new home.
