Ditching cars entirely is the only way we can have a real chance at fighting climate change. — Over the past several years, we have seen remarkable growth and interest in electric vehicles (EVs). While they largely attributed this to Tesla, nearly every legacy car manufacturer has invested billions of dollars in developing their own electric vehicle platforms to not only compete with Tesla, but to phase out…

Amazon and other corporations are deeply complicit in the ongoing oppression and precarity of Black folk and their communities in America. Plastered across Amazon’s homepage for the past few days is a black banner with white, bold text that reads “Black lives matter.” Amazon wants the world to know that…

Countries that claim to be democratic today are not. For all of these countries are not ruled by the people but rather are ruled by capital. The world has never before seen true democracy in action. Countries that claim to be democratic today, and that were supposedly established with democracy…

President-elect Joe Biden has already been garnering praise for some of the historical nominations and appointments to his cabinet and administration. He has also been under mounting pressure to continue to supposedly “diversify” his cabinet simply by nominating women and people of color. The big problem with this kind of…

Simply picking or putting things together that supposedly go well together is not what curating is fundamentally about. — Curated menus. Curated lists. Curated websites. Curated boxes and baskets. Curated, curated, curated. This word has exploded in popularity over the past fifteen years. In so doing, it has lost much of its meaning. Today, the word is often lazily added to an otherwise mundane product to lend it an…

One way to solve the vacancy problem of many of the office buildings in downtowns is to rezone or redistrict them so they can be converted to mixed-residential spaces. — One long-lasting impact brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic is sky-high vacancy rates of office buildings in downtowns and other types of central business districts. New York City, for example, has a historical vacancy rate of 16% as of June 2022, or the equivalent of over 120 million square feet…

A new form of public media in this country should be created to keep the people elected to serve in government and other people who hold immense power in this country accountable. — Among other American deficiencies obfuscated under the rubric of “exceptionalism” is the lack of public, or national, media and broadcasting. Most countries have some form of this public-service oriented concept, perhaps none more famous than the UK with its BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation). …

My recent article on booster shots was censored by a prominent Medium publication. — I recently published an article titled “COVID-19 Booster Shots: Boosting Immunity or Boosting Profits?” The article, however, was rejected by one of the publications that I often publish in because the editor who reviewed my article felt the need to “err on the side of caution and reject it as…

Yes, 250–300 miles of range on a single charge may seem great today, but imagine if you could drive an EV with 600 miles of range with the same battery packs already in use today. This could possibly be achieved with bold new designs and radically rethinking the automobile. — Electric Vehicles (EVs) today tend to look just like conventional fossil fuel-burning, internal combustion engine vehicles. Many, in fact, are identical, as they can be head with either a battery pack and an electric motor or with an internal combustion engine. …