The Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving national, state, and local energy and environmental policies. Our premise is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using Real Science (please consult WiseEnergy.org for more information).
A key element of AWED’s efforts is public education. Towards that end, every three weeks we put together a newsletter to balance what is found in the mainstream media about energy and the environment. We appreciate MasterResource for their assistance in publishing this information.
Some of the more important articles in this issue are:
A moral case for zero emission electricity for all
German Failure on the Road to a Renewable Future
Concerns about Turbine interference with Military are Legitimate
Is The Long Renewables Honeymoon Over?…
Continue ReadingYou road I enter upon and look around, I believe you are not all that is here, I believe much unseen is also here.
– Walt Whitman, “Song of the Open Road”
The American Automobile Association predicts that 37.6 million Americans will hit the open road this Memorial Day weekend, a 3.5 percent increase from last year. Overall, counting travelers on airplanes (3.25 million) and trains, buses, and ships (1.9 million), the total increase is 1.5 million.
A strong economy and attractive pricing of car rentals and vacation lodging are part of the anticipated strong start of the summer driving season.
Get happy. Summer beckons. Not only bike and hike but also drive, bus, train, and fly to a better environment–your self-selected environment.
The automobile is environmentalism-on-wheels. The open road is freedom to escape the concrete for the great beyond.…
Continue ReadingSolar panels and wind turbines aren’t made out of nothing. They are made out of metals, plastics, and chemicals. These products have been mined out of the ground, transported, processed, manufactured. Each stage leaves behind a trail of devastation: habitat destruction, water contamination, colonization, toxic waste, slave labor, greenhouse gas emissions, wars, and corporate profits. (DGR, below)
Yesterday’s post shared with readers the scary premises and means of the Deep Green Resistance, now the Progressive/Left option to the Green New Deal.
Today’s post shares the DGR’s views on renewables, which this group correctly sees as invasive to the natural world. One wishes that mainstream, Washington, DC-centric environmentalists would wake up to the fact that wind power and solar panels are very invasive to the natural world relative to dense, mineral energies.…
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