Truth Is a Shared Resource: Why Discerning What We Read Is an Act of Adaptive Resiliency In an age of storms, scrolls, and synthetic media, how carefully we vet what we read, and how thoughtfully we share it, may be one of the quietest and most important forms of courage left to us. Claude AI... Continue Reading →
A Short Pause Here — and Where to Find Us Next
While I truly enjoy posting here on the WordPress side of the world, we're taking a break for the next few months to post primarily on two other platforms: Climate Tribe Social (climatetribe.social) and SDL5 (SDL5.com or SDL5.org — same site). Why the move? Simple. We've been building both of these platforms for quite some... Continue Reading →
October 17 Is No Kings Day: Show Up, Make a Voting Plan, and Help Others Participate
On Saturday, October 17, 2026, people across the United States are being called to participate in No Kings: Vote Early—a nationwide day of action centered on democratic participation, community solidarity, and helping eligible voters make their voices count. The message is simple: no thrones, no crowns, no kings. The people choose their leaders.nokings Put October... Continue Reading →
What Really Bothers Me: Choosing Assertiveness Over Victimhood
On dignity, honesty, and refusing to become what hurts us... The Question I was once asked what bothers me the most. What really ticks me off? At the time, I answered honestly. At my age, much older now and perhaps a little wiser, there is not much that gets under my skin anymore. The exception... Continue Reading →
The Electric Freight Revolution Is Here: BYD’s 44-Tonne Truck & Canada’s 3D-Printed Project Arrow…
Protecting our Children & Biodiversity's future towards a more sustainable and habitable Earth! What if the next revolution in electric vehicles isn’t about building a better car, but about reinventing how vehicles are designed, built, powered, financed, and supported? Two recent stories, one from a trade show floor in Germany and one from an auto... Continue Reading →
Hardship, Heat, and the Hour We Are In: Five Signals, One Message
How a study on childhood poverty, a rogue ocean wave, a video on the overheated brain, a planetary report card, and the economics of clean energy all point toward the same lesson: adaptive resiliency. Every week I read more than I could ever post about. Most of it lands, gets noted, and moves on. This... Continue Reading →
They Knew: Seven Decades of Big Oil’s Climate Fraud, Told in 101 Documents
Seven Decades... Amplifying the Center for Climate Integrity’s new report, Climate Fraud 101, released September 30, 2026 Every so often a message arrives from someone I have never met, someone who found their way here through these posts and decided to reach out. This week, one such reader sent me a link and a simple... Continue Reading →
AI Is Moving Faster Than Our Guardrails: Why Most Organizations Still Aren’t Ready
Cybersecurity News A friend recently passed along a piece on how unprepared most enterprises are for the security risks that come with artificial intelligence. They thought it might interest me. They were right, and I think it deserves a wider audience, including among those of us who will never run a Fortune 500 company but... Continue Reading →
The Great AI Argument and Ethos
Why attacking AI is the wrong target, and why holding ourselves accountable is the right one. Getting This Off My Chest I really need to get this off my chest. It has been nagging at me since mid-2025, when I started noticing just how many people believe AI is out to destroy us, or worse... Continue Reading →
When Bombs Fall, the Climate Burns Too: War, Genocide, and the Climate and Ecological Emergency
Que Humanidad | Compiled & Mr. Alvarez’s Thoughts | AI Enhanced. Climate conversations usually begin with smokestacks, tailpipes, and chainsaws. They rarely begin with a tank column, an artillery barrage, or a burning refinery. Yet war is among the most concentrated forms of environmental destruction humanity has ever devised, and it remains almost invisible in... Continue Reading →
China’s $5,000 EV Lesson: How Chinese Electric Vehicles Evolved, and What America Can Learn
Why can China build an electric car for around $5,000 while America struggles to sell truly affordable new vehicles? Que Humanidad / Compiled & Mr. Alvarez's Thoughts | AI Enhanced | Image from Pexels - not vehicle mentioned A new video from Motion Evolution Studio asks a provocative question: why can China build an electric... Continue Reading →