Posts Tagged ‘fossil fuels’

Grand Solar Plan

In the previous two posts, I wrote about our need to switch to the only sustainable energy option our species has: solar (in all its different forms), and the fact that schools are doing very little to steer us toward that wiser course. Instead, schools seem content to extrude graduates, most, oblivious to the energy [...]

Peak Air – Charge It!

I created the following video in an attempt to visually define “unsustainable”.
My main objectives were to:

1) Show how fossil fuels have taken a long time to develop

2) Show how quickly we’ve binged on these non-renewable energy sources

3) Argue that we [...]

5 Quotes (no. 1 of 1)

Below are 5 quotes that stuck in the gray matter this week. (Trying to get the big picture in view.)
1) We are so battered by the insults of the existing system that we fail to see how creative are the alternatives. (Paul Hawken, Ecology of Commerce, p. 175)
2) I am a not sure sweatshop workers being [...]