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Are sea levels really rising? Is climate change real? Real or imagined, the debates go on endlessly.  Here’s the way we see it: If you dump trillions of tons of poison into the air, Earth and water, do you think it will make things better or worse?  As glaciers melt, rising temperatures break new records....

It’s all the rage of the auto industry. It’s all the talk of Silicon Valley. It’s a media blitz and a multibillion-dollar investment frenzy across the globe, affecting scores of industries. Jump in your car, turn on your TV, text away, Twitter to your heart’s content, read your favorite magazine or newspaper (if you still...

As part of its commitment to the Paris climate accords, France will prohibit the sale of new petroleum-powered vehicles in 2040. Nicolas Hulot, France’s ecology minister, says the goal will be “tough” for French carmakers to meet. But Peugeot, Citroen and Renault already are racing to get electric vehicles to market.  On the demand side,...

First there was Bitcoin. It was followed by scores of cryptocurrency competitors. Now there’s SolarCoin. Think of it as solar energy’s equivalent of frequent-flyer miles. People or businesses that generate solar electricity can claim one SolarCoin for every megawatt-hour of solar electricity they generate and can document through their utility. Players submit proof to the...

While young tech whizzes are making new apps for your phone or designing cybersecurity protocols, Amazon Web Services is creating the Cloud that these devices need to operate – and Amazon is doing it with engineers whose average age is over 40.  Some tech giants, such as Oracle and IBM, have a workforce with an...