Letter To The Editor: Thank You Cheryl Bell
Letter To The Editor: Response To Bruce Blevins
World Futures: Efficiency (Part Four)
World Futures: What Do We Need?
By ANDY ANDREWS
Los Alamos World Futures Institute
In part one of this efficiency series we defined efficiency as avoiding waste in doing something. Waste encompasses materials, energy, efforts, money and time.
Looking at the sun-earth system, essentially the same amount of energy is delivered by the sun each day. Some of that energy is stored for future use and the rest must leave earth if a stable relationship is to be maintained. Clearly, the energy transfer process must have less than 100 percent efficiency for earth to remain habitable and support humanity. In Read More
Just One Thing To Do This Week: Rise
By MARY BETH MAASSEN
Los Alamos
My heart is heavy with sadness for the lives lost at the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville. A helicopter patrolling during the violence crashed and killed the two state troopers on board.
Heather Heyer was a 32-year-old paralegal who showed up to peacefully protest. She was killed by a self-professed Nazi-sympathizer who drove his car into the crowd, injuring many others. Some vile acts of violence can’t be anticipated by those with healthy minds.
Years ago I was a political activist. I participated in actions all across the United States attempting Read More
Letter To The Editor: A Simple Request…
Letter To The Editor: A New Low In Los Alamos Politics, Again
Letter To The Editor: You Can Be Racist. You Can Be A Christian. You Cannot Be Both.
The ideologies of any organization or individual that claim the superiority of race over another is absolutely incompatible with the message of the Christian Bible.
Racism is an abhorrent sin against humanity and God. Entities such as the KKK, white nationalists, neo-Nazi’s, or other such racist organizations are evil and in complete opposition to the Christian Bible.
You can be racist. You can be a Christian. You cannot be both. Read More