The 2025 World Car Awards were just held at the 2025 New York International Auto Show, which started today, and close cousins Kia and Hyundai nabbed a couple of big awards. Let’s start with Kia, since it won the biggest award of the year. 2025 World Car of the Year … [continued]
Numerous times — at public cleantech events, in normal daily life, and online — people have asked us if we have a Substack. Now, to me, that has always been a strange question to ask. We’ve had this website for almost two decades, where we publish article after article after … [continued]
Generally, on April Fool’s Day I try to write a clever, tongue-in-cheek article that allows us to laugh at ourselves. This year, however, there is so little that could be made to feel light and easy. Instead, I’m going to remember the media literacy guru, Robert McChesney, who paved the … [continued]
Social media is about to get a reboot as the two prominent activists work to bring Digg back to life this year.
Waitsfield, Vermont, is the kind of mountain town where valley homes are tucked next to the Mad River, with granite slopes and rich forests rising up on both sides. It’s a place where locals have survived floods and a manufacturing exodus. Today tourism, especially skiing, sustains the proud, industrious, and … [continued]
The last couple of weeks has been a whirlwind. Fortunately, at least for my own mental health, I was taking some time off to prep an older truck for transportation duty while I started the long process of building an electric Suburban. But, that doesn’t mean I wasn’t checking in … [continued]
I was working on some homework today with my daughter who’s in 2nd grade. It came after a couple of days of trying to figure out how smart people are so effectively fooled by misinformation, and don’t see the threat of massive misinformation networks (i.e., X, Facebook, etc.). The homework … [continued]
Social media has become an increasingly powerful tool for disseminating misinformation about clean energy. A growing number of Facebook groups, influencers, and various online forums make a living by spreading mis- and disinformation about renewable energy sources like solar, wind, and hydroelectric power. Safiya Umoja Noble, an AI expert at … [continued]
Journalism is under attack like never before in America. Several journalists have responded by creating new media channels.
Devastating consequences of the climate crisis are being submerged by climate misinformation messengers, who are persuaded by a self-serving but very powerful minority to mistrust scientific evidence. In many cases such disbelief emerges from social media affordances, which could actually be tapped as a source for rapid public information dissemination … [continued]
