By JOHN M. BRODER NOV. 2, 2009
WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Al Gore thought he had spotted a winner last year when a small California firm sought financing for an energy-saving technology from the venture capital firm where Mr. Gore is a partner. Continue reading Gore’s Dual Role: Advocate and Investor
by George Lerner | Aug 25, 2012 |
Nuclear power produces a million times as much energy as fossil fuels, per pound of fuel, without releasing pollution or affecting climate. People think nuclear power releases lots of radiation, but actually fossil fuels release more radioactive material.
We don’t have to use a Light Water Reactor to generate nuclear power. Though we’ve been using LWR almost exclusively, it is not the best type of nuclear reactor, it is the design that coal/oil companies, who owned and still own USA Congress, picked in the 1960s. Continue reading What is a LFTR? Molten-fueled, salt-cooled nuclear power | Molten Salt Reactors (incl Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor)
(Reuters) – Hurricane Joaquin strengthened in the Atlantic on Wednesday and is expected to become a major hurricane, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said, although not all forecast models agreed on whether it would make landfall in the United States.
Thanks to Source: Hurricane Joaquin strengthens, threat to United States unclear
Thanks to source: Josh Tolley
by Ilia Delio Jun. 30, 2015
In 1967 historian Lynn White, Jr., wrote a provocative essay entitled “The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis” in which he blamed Christianity for the environmental crisis. Christianity, he said, with its emphasis on human salvation and dominion over nature, “made it possible to exploit nature in a mood of indifference to the feelings of natural objects.” Because the “roots of our trouble are largely religious,” he claimed, “the remedy must also be essentially religious. We must rethink and re-feel our nature and our destiny.” Continue reading Lex credendi, lex vivendi: A response to Laudato Si’ – by Ilia Delio
The Loud Cry 