If this recent article from Grist, doesn’t get your attention about the implication of climate, water and human life … sigh Here are the salient points Quote 1: “From a rise overlooking the unusually low San Luis Reservoir, California Governor … Read More

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A recent Statista infographic on access to running water used a report from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences as source material. Over 500,000 people just in the top 50 cities are without running water … could not … Read More

As a survivor of malaria, I have a special place for mosquitos. I also understand somewhat the public policy behind removing health risks associated with those little buggers (pun intended). When new technologies surface (or I stumble on them), I … Read More

I realize that if I document every climate activist murder, that would be the dominant post category (and I’d be even crankier) – but to ignore these murders or even consider them normal is just wrong. Simply wrong. Grist put … Read More

Utility Dive this morning posted an opinion piece with this lead-in, quote: “This week, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) kicks off a series of technical conferences on “Modernizing Electricity Market Design” with an examination of the role of centralized capacity markets … Read More

A recent post from Utility Dive shared an update on pilot project working across different government and NGO agencies to derive a SBOM – Software Bill of Materials. This is a good thing, but begs the question … hasn’t this … Read More

Recently, a local discussion started about food anxiety – in OR, about 44% of the population are below some drawn line where that is relevant. Ok … c-19 made it worse, check. then I see data like this Source: https://www.statista.com/chart/24350/total-annual-household-waste-produced-in-selected-countries … Read More