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Bad Incentives
First a little update on the issue I brought up before leaving on vacation, and that is seemingly perverse economic incentives in the U.S. Many policies used to stimulate the economy are often not good...
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“Peak Car” Has Passed
I often mention how you should check in on the weather blog often because of all the great weather information but also because I try to keep track of major technology, science, and energy trends. One...
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Malinvestment=Environmental Problems
I didn’t grow up like most people in the U.S in the 1970s and 1980s. The vast majority of my contemporaries had already moved off of farms and were living in cities. Not only did I live on a farm, we...
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Concrete Life Persists
During the 2nd weekend of September I was fortunate enough to get away and do some fishing with my family. As was the caseseven years ago, when I penned “The Concrete Life“, I had to drive through the...
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You get what you pay (more) for
It is like a self-fulfilling prophecy. Depending upon your perspective, it is either negative or positive feedback loop. The current issue of a wheel tax in Wausau brings to mind some salient blog...
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Roads are Expensive
Did you see this recent story on WAOW.com “Turnout for Transportation“? If you are a regular blog reader, I hope some economic and environmental themes popped into your head. I have been writing about...
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Less miles, better world
You might recall that I am not a big fan of urban sprawl. As I grew up in these United States, I came to the realization that most of our cities are not designed for people, but rather the mode of...
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Minimal Life, Minimal Pollution
My wife cued up a documentary on our streaming media service the other day and casually mentioned “you might like it”. Was it the latest and greatest developments in science, technology, weather, or...
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Things Change, Always
One thing that is not commented upon too often nowadays in regard to anthropogenic global warming (AGW, aka “climate change”) and pollution in general is that a lower population would likely mean less...
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Problems Solved
I heard some great news the other day, but judging by the headlines, you might think the world was ending. The U.S. birthrate hit a record low in the past year. A typical report about this stat could...
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