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Beyond The SoundBite Lecture series – Vivek Ramaswamy Part 2 & 3

Part 1 is here. This past Wednesday night at St. Anselm’s Institute of Politics, Vivek Ramaswamy gave an address to a packed (actually, “standing room”) crowd. I’ll tell you, it was well worth spending the travel time down and back to listen to him.  Smooth, problem domain knowledgeable, and spoke from a point of view …

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dark field Compact Flourescent light bulb CFL Image by Suvajit Roy from Pixabay

Watt The CFL Is Going On Here?

While the total ban on incandescents was averted, the old reliable ‘heat-ball’ is still nearing extinction in the US.  When we rang in this new year, January 1st, 2013 began, the ban on the 75 Watt incandescent bulb.

Creeping Enviro-Tyranny…this time in Utah

If you read part-1 of “Following the Trail from Sustainability to Tyranny“, you would have seen a list of “What If?” questions.  The third question reads: “What If you could not grow a vegetable garden without a permit?“.  Some people might say these are pie-in-the-sky questions, or conspiracy notions, simply because they are not necessarily …

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“Earth Hour” Can Kiss My Amps

Anyone who lives in an actual ecosystem, one that is not dominated by concrete and asphalt off which the trill of horns and car alarms can be heard echoing in the night, has no frikkin idea what an ecosystem really is. It is not the cacophony of traffic punctuated by an olfactory brawl between diesel fumes, a pine tree shaped “new car smell” air freshener,” the infrequent bathing habits of a middle eastern cab driver, and your cinnamon latte. Wildlife is not defined by the alcoholic mating calls of things that stumble out of neon lit night clubs, or the guttural whispers emanating from ill-lit, trash filled alleys. And conservation is not an extra crate from Crate and Barrel into which you place the recyclable refuse of fair-trade certified foods.

There Will Be No Drilling

  Mr. Obama tossed out a rhetorical bone to the pro-carbon energy crowd by granting indulgences to the oil industry.  He promised to take their money for mineral rights leases but this is a feint and should not be misconstrued as an admission of or desire to increase domestic oil production. First, he will not …

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The Latest Spin On Al Gore Warming (AGW)

The narrative on Global Warming, Climate Crisis, Climate Change, et al. has evolved yet again. It is now (drum roll please) about pollution. That’s right, ladies and gentlemen; we are no longer concerned with just CO2.