I’m sitting in artic Tennessee and feel like I’m an extra in the movie “The Day After Tomorrow” depicting the world in turmoil due to global warming. Well, maybe I’m exaggerating a bit, but the bitter cold, along with low gas prices, is a perfect combination to lull me into energy and environmental complacency. I just finished reading, “Living Like …
Movie Review – Who Killed the Electric Car?
“If there are enough David’s in the world, we can win.” S. David Freeman in “Who Killed the Electric Car?” I’m switching gears this week and watched a documentary that still has momentum, “Who Killed the Electric Car?” If you have a real passion for alternative energy/technology/environment, then you must watch this movie. The drama begins by telling us that the number …
Book Review – A Declaration of Energy Independence by Jay Hakes
I was recently visiting the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, a museum focused on one of the largest dinosaur finds in California. And I couldn’t help but think of where oil comes from. Dinosaurs = oil. No more dinosaurs = no more oil Not exactly. As pointed out in the article “20 Things You Didn’t Know About Oil” …
Book Review – Storm World by Chris Mooney
“There are many reasons to shift away from fossil fuels, and we will do so in the next century without legislation, financial incentives, carbon-conservation programs, or the interminable yammering of fearmongers.” Michael Crichton, author’s message at the end of State of Fear In 2004, Michael Crichton wrote in his novel, State of Fear, “From the beginning, the movement had had …