Max Gladwell

The Green Movement needs a framework and a set of guiding principles upon which we can all agree.

As Patriots of the Green Revolution, we’re calling for a Constitutional Convention for sustainability. We’re calling for a gathering not unlike the origins of the greatest nation the world has ever known, The United States of America. We’re [...]

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Where we find a kindred spirit blog in Canada.

The term just occurred to us. It made sense. We’re Eco-Libertarians. So we thought it would make for a great domain. Lo and behold, it was already registered to David Reevely, who’s an “editor and sometime writer for the Ottawa Citizen” according to his blog, EcoLibertarian. Indeed, [...]

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In order to bridge the gap between liberals and conservatives on the environment, we should look to Objectivism and frame the issues accordingly.
Who is Max Gladwell? If you’ve answered that question, then you know the name was partly inspired by Ayn Rand’s magnus opus, Atlas Shrugged, and her Objectivist philosophy. It’s fitting on many levels, [...]

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General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler are seeking $50 billion in low-interest federal loans. But don’t call it a bailout.
First there was the subprime crisis and Bear Sterns. The U.S. government bailed out the investment bank to the tune of $29 billion because it was too big to fail. Investors lost a ton of dough, but [...]

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Democrats and Republicans outline a compromise on offshore drilling that largely moves energy policy in the right direction. Can it pass? If so, will Bush sign it?

The Democrats picked the wrong battle at the wrong time with offshore drilling. It should never have been allowed to become a so-called wedge issue because it’s effectively a [...]

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Obama-Biden 2008: Change We Can Twitter About.

Twitter can be many different things to many different people. For Max Gladwell, it is a channel for communicating, marketing, listening, and most of all interacting. This last part implies a two-way relationship. In Twitter terms, this means following and being followed.
When we get an alert via email that [...]

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The Democrats decide the offshore drilling battle isn’t worth fighting on the Republicans’ terms. We hate to say we told you so.
According to a story on CNN by the AP, the Democrats are signaling a strategic shift in position on offshore drilling.
House members will be able to “consider opening portions of the Outer Continental Shelf [...]

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A climate change conference is compromised by absurdity and outright fraud, thus undermining the legitimate case for action.

Dr. Gurminder Singh is an active and you might say ever present member of the Los Angeles green community. Among other roles and ventures, he is co-chairman of the Green Technology Institute. Today, Dr. Singh sits on a [...]

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Without a serious shift in government policy and regulation, our individual efforts could be for naught. Plus, we call for a ban on any statement that starts with “If everyone…”
The cliché takes many forms. We’re lead to believe that small changes add up to big impacts. Green media is full of impressive facts and huge [...]

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