Between Carbon Spewing Generators, And Too Much Lawn Maintenance Equipment

We are contributing to a travesty to nature that is just, or ought to be just, as conscience troubling as contemplating the damage our cars, and boats, and planes, and a host of other toys, have already done to a combined set of circulation systems that are essential to life as we know it.

But then we also have to realize, beyond the desperate need we have to seek out fun anymore in the first place, that behind everyone of these instruments of applied information is the livelihood of a good number of people. And then more people connected, directly and indirectly, to the servicing the needs of the first group; and then more people indirectly connected in ever greater bits of remove, but sill there for appreciable transactions. Behind every one of them; great pyramids of transaction linkages that mean livelihood input for someone else.

How could you even conceive of making changes to this sort of arrangement without understanding implicitly that you can't do it piecemeal? That you have to do it in a comprehensive manner. And if you accept that how can you settle for anything less now than complete, fully comprehensive, and integrated change, across the full spectrum of what constitutes our social/productive organism. Especially when the nature of the change in what constitutes our grasp of instrumentality now.

PRICE OF EMISSIONS

Summer Fun Is Powered By Gas Generators. Does It Have To Be?

6 diggs citylab.com Energy

In many cities, summer means outdoor concerts and street fairs. It also means the polluting generators that power them. So how bad for the environment are they?

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[Post Note: Public transit would be a good idea as well because we could then demand more environmental compliance from what makes the transportation go; as in something a lot more clean. But the problem, again, is that we've already answered the question this next posts asks here: Namely the people who are already making money on the way things are now. And it is not just profit above all else entrepreneurs, but also the folks who work for them. So we are thus damned if we do and damned if we don't. Not a situation a society can long live with; especially if it values some semblance of quality of life, to go along with surviving at all in the first place, of course. J.V.]

WAITING FOR TRANSPO

Who's Afraid of Fare-Free Public Transit?

10 diggs nextcity.org Cities

Fare-free transit could help incentivize single occupancy vehicle drivers to shift to more environmentally friendly buses or trains and help ease financial strain for low-income households.