Reality is a Lovely Place Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at all cost Emotional health is facing reality at any cost. – Scott Peck The wrist band pictured above is from my daughters when they were listening every day to a musician called Owl City around 10 years ago. It the title to a song […]
What You Need to Know About Charging Before Buying an EV
One of the first questions people ask about electric cars is usually, “Where can I charge it?” The answer is most often, “Wherever you park your car.” A 2013 study by Carnegie Mellon University researchers calculated that 79 percent of U.S. households have dedicated off-street parking for at least some of their vehicles, almost always within a […]
Paradise Lost….Again
Paradise Lost….Again Without the wild things there is no heaven Last night I watched the 2006 film by Mel Gibson Apocalypto. It is a gruesome rendering of Aztec butchery introduced, fortunately, by a paradise like beginning that is effective in making clear how humanity makes its own heavens and its own hells. Although this is […]
The Ecological Citizen publishes nine paths to ecocentrism
Good News – The Ecological Citizen’s latest supplement is out and has nine personal autobiographical accounts of how their authors came to discover and incorporate ecocentric values into their lives. Each author writes about their own path to ecocentrism; they are all very different, and each interesting. A few quotes from the various authors follow: “One […]
What “demand is inelastic” actually means
Elasticity of demand measures how sensitive we—as consumers—are to changes in price. How much more or less of something will we want if the price goes down or up? Economists think about this relationship using the shape of demand curves. As we know from the Economist’s Handbook of Proverbs, demand curves slope downward. This downward […]
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