How many of you remember Billie Holiday, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, early Bing Crosby and Rudy Vallee? No, this is not a test for Medicare. Your answers will not be screened by the IRS nor will your thoughts be recorded… Continue Reading →
I was amused and contemplative about two happenings affecting how we and the world make decisions concerning the use of energy and transportation fuel. Neither of them seems to have reached the national media. Both of them suggest how difficult… Continue Reading →
I am proud of my alma mater and read the magazine linked to it, the MIT Technology Review. Its coverage of alternative fuel issues is generally solid. Its more scientific and engineering-related articles, while at times requiring me to read… Continue Reading →
I wrote a book in the early ‘70s called the “Irrelevance of Planning in the ‘60s.” It was published by The MIT Press. The reviews were good. It sold enough copies to permit me to eat out at a middling… Continue Reading →
Free traders of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but the garbage that binds you. Oslo, Norway has pointed the way to a sustained profitable garbage trade. The city converts household trash, industrial waste (even toxic and dangerous… Continue Reading →
Good for you, Chris Paine! Paine, if you remember, was the filmmaker who produced “Who Killed the Electric Car?” His recent opinion piece in The Washington Post took on the supposed mythologies about the demise or slow progress of electric… Continue Reading →
I am not a tree hugger. I am proud, however, to be called an environmentalist and not so proud to be called a lot of other things. I do believe I have a personal obligation to try my best to… Continue Reading →
Recently, the U.S. Energy Information Agency announced that carbon dioxide emissions from energy consumption in the U.S. during 2012 fell to the lowest level since 1994. Further, in 2012, emissions were 12.1% below the peak of 6 billion tons in… Continue Reading →
Remember the Cold War! Remember when the Russians launched Sputnik 1! It caused some of our political leaders to go up the wall. The Russians had seemingly beaten us in space; they were ahead in the race to the moon… Continue Reading →
I bet most of you have heard the dictum often passed on by management consultants, sometimes with humor and sometimes with tears, that you’re only an expert when you fly. Translated, the greater the distance you fly to either speak… Continue Reading →
