With some notorious exceptions like the Bank of Japan, central banks are the very essence of today's economic mismanagement.  They tend ...

Sorry folks, but this story sucks so bad it could replace gravity.  It's bad enough when honest producers are driven out of business by ...

North America and Europe have both seen declines in their output of greenhouse gasses.  Normally, we would think this is great news around h...

The Chinese are about to discover what the Japanese automakers learned before them—Europe is not the USA when it comes to giving up industri...

The evidence the climate is changing is literally overwhelming.  And yet there is doubt.  This seems especially acute in English-speaking wo...

Oklahoma was a strange place to visit when I was kid.  My dad's brother lived in Bartlesville which was a company town for Phillips 66 i...

When I was at the University of Minnesota, I had a roommate from Bangladesh for a year.  He used to say something I thought preposterous, ...

James Kunstler over at Clusterfuck nation may be excessively cranky about the current social-political order and sometimes given to speculat...

you better be a bunch of compulsive maintenance freaks. Jus' sayin'! The Interstate 5 Bridge over the Skagit River in Washington...

As regular readers know, I think cap and trade is a stupendously bad idea.  I have brought this up before.  Here are two recent examples. ...

When I was singing with the Minnesota Bach Society, we were asked to provide the chorus for a symphonic performance of Wagner's Tannhäus...

"How do you stop people who will stop at nothing?" For me, this was the most interesting question from the 2008 film Battle in S...

Outside of discovering new and more efficient ways to move green power around, the holy grail of renewables is storage.  And in some ways, I...

Le secret des grandes fortunes sans cause apparente est un crime oublié, parce qu' il a été proprement fait ." - Honoré de Balzac,...

The news out of Japan is not surprising to anyone remotely interested in the economics of development.  Just remember, the great outburst of...

One of the main reasons why I have such a short fuse around folks who deny Climate Change or Peak Oil and then expect you to treat them seri...

Over the years, there have been thousands of community-activist types who have marched and demonstrated in favor of using solar power.  What...

Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II, President of the North Caroline NAACP, speaking at Martin Street Baptist Church, Raleigh, NC, Tuesday evenin...

Japan's economic experiment is barely under way and already the self-annointed experts are passing judgement.  Part of the problem is th...