Using Smoke and Mirrors to Confound the Audience

Welcome to Thrilling Heroics: a personal and career development site for college students and young professionals! If you enjoy the site, I encourage you to leave your comments and consider subscribing to future articles. Optimize your Life, Rock your Career, and Make the World your Playground!It is SO sad to see politicians appropriating environmental causes [...]

Creating a Sustainable City

As policy makers become more concerned about the effects of climate change on their states, counties, and cities, Sacramento is an interesting place to be. The capital city is home to Governor Schwarzenegger and the California state legislature, who are making some progressive green changes. As I’ve said before, our local municipal utility (SMUD) is [...]

Supreme Court Rules In Favor of Global Warming

For years under the Bush administration, the Environmental Protection Agency has argued that it has no authority to regulate carbon emissions. Imagine that, the one government office in charge of–what other than protecting the environment–hasn’t been doing its job? Well, five Supreme Court justices ruled yesterday that carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases DO count [...]

Slow Cooker Earth Part V: The Unforseen Effect on Public Policy

This is the final installment in the Slow Cooker Earth series. We’ve looked at what global warming means in terms of extreme weather and rising sea levels, and its effect on animals and the land. Today we look at its effect on human society.
“Global warming” and “climate change” are obviously becoming the new buzzwords in [...]

The Idea Factory

Stanford University is hosting an energy conference tomorrow put on by Energy Crossroads and the Roosevelt Institution. “The Roosevelt Energy Challenge: Writing a New Path for Energy Policy in the U.S” challenges all university-level students to submit innovative solutions to our global energy crisis, and will highlight student contributions to energy policy, with Thomas Friedman [...]

Are You CLEAN Or Dirty??

Sources tell me that the House of Representatives voted in favor of H.R. 6 today, the “Creating Long-Term Energy Alternatives for the Nation Act of 2007,” or “CLEAN Energy Act of 2007.” Representatives Jerry McNerney (CA), Charles Rangel (NY), and Nick Rahall (WV) introduced the Act on Tuesday for the House’s first 100-Hour Agenda, a [...]