How Do Wealthy New Englanders Fight #ClimateChange?

This article title, “How wealthy New Englanders fight #ClimateChange” is one we have used thrice previously. In the first, we noted the PBS television series This Old House and its renovation of the Seaside Victorian Cottage, in Narragansett, Rhode Island. Those wealthy New Englanders didn’t choose electric heat pumps, but warm, dependable gas heating for …

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Tilting At Windmills, Part 2

Tilting at Windmills, Part 2 “We made too many wrong mistakes.” -Yogi Berra So what else may be affected by the turbines? Whales. There have been 178 Right, Sperm, and Humpback whale fatalities along the Atlantic coast since 2016. (Stop These Things, 2023) Radical environmentalists initially blamed the Maine lobstermen for killing the endangered Right …

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Some of the Environmentalists Seem to Want Us to Return to Nineteenth Century Living

The two articles were not that far apart on the main page of The Wall Street Journal’s website. The first was rather innocuous: Ford Invests $3.5 Billion in Michigan Battery Plant With Chinese Partner’s Technology The facility will help the auto maker reach a goal of producing 2 million electric vehicles annually later this decade …

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Tilting At Windmills, Part 1

Tilting At Windmills The Wind blows freely, Blowing across the earthscape. But what if it stops? When I first saw the windmills I was doing a military base closure project in California in 1992. As I had to fly into San Francisco, I would drive over the hills to the Central Valley town of Merced. …

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