I am going to take some time off with my family so this will be my last post in 2021. I’ll list some recent news at the end, as usual, but I want to reflect and share some thoughts about this past year in order that we grasp how much and how quickly our circumstances have changed, are changing and…
I hope that you are enjoying a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend and for all my Jewish readers, a very happy Chanukah starting at sundown tonight. We are having our Chanukah party tonight! Reflecting on what I am most thankful for it is the same this year as always: my family and health of all of us. I and my family have all been…
Every week brings a wide array of articles that relate to and provide updated information and developments regarding many of the topics about which I report to you. Sometimes I will feature one subject in more detail while also now providing you with headlines and a brief quote from the featured article and others so you get the salient point(s)…
Last week I presented you with a smorgasbord of environmental news. This week I’m going to display a variety of good and bad news that has been published in the last number of days. I’ll start with the good news that should give us some level of optimism that we have the ability to do something effective to alter our society in order to…
Most of you know that my career was mostly in the automobile business basically my whole life but full time from 1976 to 2009. That is why I have a keen interest and insight into the industry. That shows up in this blog as I continue to read the Automotive News weekly and follow the business in other ways as…
It’s been a few weeks since you’ve heard from me as I was on vacation. My son Zack (35) and I went on a wilderness kayaking trip on the Allagash River in very northern Maine with a group from Sierra Club. We had a great time. It was so very nice to get removed from civilization for 8 days and just relax.…
After a couple of weeks of posting current headlines about what is happening around the country and globe relating to climate change, I was thinking that this week I’d tackle just one topic, one article, and get into it in more depth. But as I reviewed the articles that I had read and saved for this publication I was once…
This past week I gave a presentation to a group on climate change. This was a group that was not fundamentally focussed on this issue but seemed to have a general interest and awareness of it. The theme I decided to follow was to give an overview of all the ways that a changing, warming climate was already altering so…
I am starting today on a personal note. I have been shamelessly promoting the virtual outing presentation that I made last Thursday. It was very well attended in fact setting a new record for our group’s presentations. It went very well from my perspective and I have received very favorable feedback. In case you missed it and may be interested to see…
There’s been several articles this week that describe how we are inexorably headed for a carbon free, mostly, electric future in transportation. There have been, and still are, skeptics that don’t believe that we will get to the point by 2030, or 2035 at the latest, when every mass produced car in the US will be fully electric much less light duty…