Max Gladwell

The Big Ask urges us to act now on climate change. We were just lamenting how we’ve become desensitized to headlines like Greenhouse Gas Emissions Increase in U.S. We’re fully aware of the problem. It couldn’t be more clear, and we’ve moved from understanding the problem to pursuing solutions. We’re taking action. And then our [...]

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A classic yet timely TED presentation from award-winning scholar and author Jared Diamond. Jared Diamond’s Collapse is one of the defining texts in the Max Gladwell ideal and worldview, which is why it has a permanent place in our “Recommended Reading” sidebar. Very simply, Collapse demonstrates how unsustainable living will, in fact, lead to a [...]

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Stephen Colbert gets into bed with Big Oil and celebrates the lifting of the ban on offshore drilling with a new ad campaign. Now that the Congressional ban on offshore drilling has been lifted, Stephen Colbert and the Prescott Oil Company wants to drill, baby, drill. Colbert hailed the lifting of the ban as a [...]

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Hybrid Technologies hacks production cars like the MINI Cooper and re-brands them as electrified green machines. Driving an all-electric vehicle takes some getting used to. First, you have to remember to plug it in at night. Next, you have to get over shifting and the very sensation of shifting, because there’s just one forward gear: [...]

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The Colbert Report interviews GM Vice Chairman and global warming skeptic Bob Lutz on the new 2011 Chevy Volt. Bob Lutz is GM’s Vice Chairman and one of the world’s more high-profile global warming skeptics. Stephen Colbert invites him on the show to talk about the recently unveiled 2011 Chevy Volt. Lutz mentions that one [...]

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