By Mark | October 13, 2019
In a perfect word, people would do the right thing just because it was the right thing. They would give money to the people of Bangladesh without George Harrison having to produce a concert, and they would have marched to demand clean drinking water for the citizens of Flint without Mark Ruffalo calling them into […]
Also posted in Environment, Mark's Life, Media, Observations, Pop Culture, Rants, Sustainability, Uncategorized | Tagged Al Gore, apartheid, Bangladesh, civil discobedience, civil disobedience, civil rights, Climate Change, Climate Strike, disco, doing the right thing, Ellen, Fatboy Slim, Flint water crisis, FOX News, gay marriage, gay rights, George Harrison, Global Warming, Greta Thunberg, Kent State, Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Mark's big ideas, Media, protest movements, protests, Right Here Right Now, solar energy, student protests, tv show ideas, Vietnam War, Will and Grace, yippies |
By Mark | November 19, 2018
As of right now, 76 people are known to have died in the drought-stricken Sierra foothills of Northern California, where a wildfire, dubbed “Camp Fire,” has been burning for 10 days. As 1,276 people are still unaccounted for, this number is expected to rise considerably over the coming days, as the smoldering remains of over […]
Also posted in Environment, Politics, Uncategorized | Tagged Adam Schiff, Andrew Wheeler, Ben Santer, Brian Rice, California, California Professional Firefighters Association, Camp Fire, Climate Change, coal, cruelty, Department of the Interior, Donald Trump, drought, empathy fail, EPA, Finland, fires, forests, forrest management, global warming denial, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, Make America Rake Again, Nancy Pelosi, natural disaster, Noah Diffenbaugh, Orange County, Paris Accord, pleasure, prescribed burns, raking, Sauli Niinistö, snowpack, U.S. Forest Service, wildfires, Woolsey Fire |
Tomorrow evening (Tuesday, July 17) at 6:00, Dave Strenski, the founder of SolarYpsi, is going to be in our conference room at Landline Creative Labs to discuss how solar power works, and the local resources that exist to help you get started, should you decide to join the ever-growing number of Ypsilantians who are attempting, […]
By Mark | September 13, 2017
Let me help you out this that, @realDonaldTrump. Here's what I think you meant to say. pic.twitter.com/fP3n6EDCOa — Mark Maynard (@MarkAMaynard) September 13, 2017 Yes, in case you missed it, the top tweet, minus my suggested edits, of course, really was sent out by Donald Trump today. Apparently, what we all saw play out across […]
Also posted in Education, Environment | Tagged Bob Mercer, Climate Change, Donald Trump, FEMA, global climate change, Global Warming, Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Irma, hurricanes, Koch brothers, lies, OCED, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, post-truth, tax policy, taxes |
By Mark | January 7, 2017
I’ve been struggling since the election to catch even a glimpse of the big picture. Like many of you, despite my best intentions, I tend to get swept up in the horror of the day. I want to look dispassionately at all the moving pieces and see if I can maybe find some logic in […]
Also posted in Economics, Environment, Politics, Uncategorized | Tagged Aras Agalarov, Arctic, big oil, Canada, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, dependency on foreign oil, DNC, Donald Trump, Exxon, fake news, FBI, hacking, Hillary Clinton, James B. Comey, Kazakhstan, Lindsey Graham, Michigan, Miss Universe, NATO, offshore drilling, oil, Party of Regions, Paul Manafort, Pennsylvania, Presidential politics, propaganda, Rex Tillerson, Trump Soho, Viktor F. Yanukovych, Viktor Yanukovych, Viktor Yushchenko, Vladimir Putin, Wisconsin |
