If this is your first time here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. You may also want to checkout our list of organizations and books if you want to learn more about what this site is about.Speaking of videos, this one is great. It hits the mark in several ways but my favorite is how well it depicts the huge disconnect between our perception of energy and what it takes to get it. Very funny, but equally disturbing. Finally the big-city mentality is the one being …

Now why aren’t we all in line to give them 20 million smacks in the face?
The Environmental Protection Agency has finally penalized the giant Massey Corporation, an enormously wealthy mining company doing serious business in Kentucky, West Virginia and elsewhere. They apparently found in excess of 4,500 places where mine runoff had tainted nearby waters. News to the you and me. Daily life to the locals.

Of course, I feel like we’ve seen this before. To this day, Exxon has not payed up for the damage done at the Valdez oil …

This evening I Stumbled Upon* an article at SolveClimate.com that gets my heart all pitter-patter and I thought I’d pass on quickly. I won’t explain it here, but let you read it and then if feel like getting my thoughts, return here.
In the article there is a link to a related SolveClimate.com article about Google’s RE <C initiative and Google’s press release. Check them out. Valid reasons to continue extracting coal are fewer and fewer all the time. And were minimal to begin with.
Okay, I can’t just leave it at …