What’s More Expensive Than Spending On Climate Change? Not Spending On It.
One morning last fall, I found myself standing in the basement of my 1895 home, watching a waterfall cascade off
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Autonomous Vehicles And The City Of To-Morrow
Autonomous vehicles are coming. Some time. Until they do, the state has a fancy fake city in which our robot chauffeur overlords can, ahem, practice.
Read MoreLiability in the Age of Easy, Profitable Destruction
Early on the morning of July 16th, 1945, in the middle of an uninhabited desert halfway between the remote cities
Read MoreOn The Banks of the Mighty Maumee
In anticipation of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s imminent assumption of her role as supreme socialist ruler of the cosmos, in which she
Read MoreBad Ideas And Bad Companies Do Not Need Your Defense
I was out for happy hour the other night with a transportation group. In spite of its legendarily bad public
Read MoreWell, World, We Had A Good Run
I guess this is it. The Amazon, the globe’s largest carbon sink, is burning, the yield curve has inverted, there
Read MoreHappy Canada Day!
This Canada Day, I drove all the way from Detroit to celebrate in a foreign country (a.k.a. “across the river”)–
Read MoreDetroiters Grapple With Questions of Energy Future
Yesterday evening, concerned citizens, activists, and energy professionals packed a lecture room at Wayne County Community College in downtown Detroit
Read MoreThe End Of Coal: A War Without Belligerents
News broke last week that coal producer Wyoming-based Cloud Peak Energy is filing for bankruptcy. Let’s face it: the future
Read MoreWhen Capital Speaks Louder Than, Well, Human Rights
Much ado was made about the so-called “bathroom bills” in North Carolina. Remember that story? Complacent Republican governor Pat McCrory
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