I loved this essay, and I greatly appreciate your inclusion of curated news, external references and links. Also, a group of us in the Boothbay Region have just started the Boothbay Region Clean Drinking Water Initiative. We have big plans for her Majesty Fresh Water.
Thanks, Paula, and I'm glad you're still working to look after the water supply. That's critical work there, especially. Regarding my survey here, would you rather have a separate email with the curated news, or keep it in the mix as I've done so far?
Loved this essay. And I love the curated news, and I don't want you to change the content, as long as it includes at least one solution each time. You COULD post it on a separate day, just to make your posts a little shorter....
I love what you're doing with this platform, and I've just posted this essay to Facebook. And the images are lovely.
Thanks, Lunden. I'll definitely always have some solutions-oriented material in the curated links. I've been wondering if people would like more of it. As for a separate email, so far the votes go (the few I've gotten) it's leaning toward keeping everything in one email. We'll see if that changes.
I appreciate the curated news as it is usually things I wouldn't have otherwise encountered. And some solution-oriented pieces would be welcome. Are you familiar with carbon fee and dividend, a form of carbon pricing where fossil fuels are taxed at the source and the fees distributed as dividends to households? It is a powerful solution, and one being championed by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse as the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act. S. 2307 in 2021.
Thank you, Sarah, for the input and especially for the information on carbon fee and dividend. I've only glanced at the concept. I'll take a deeper look.
Regarding the curated news, what do you think about having a separate weekly email vs. keeping it where it is?
Hi Jason! I'm a bit slow getting to this essay, but truly appreciate your prose and prompts. So, in answer to your questions, I like the curated news items included just as they are and do not think that they should be wholly focused on solutions -- a mix is nice.
Just finished the book "Sapiens" by Yuval Noah Harari in which the last line is "Is there anything more dangerous than dissatisfied and irresponsible gods who don't know what they want?" Hopefully, you're helping making us more responsible (not that we're gods, but we've been acting like them these last millennia) and helping clarify what we want.
I am getting a lot out of reading your essays, and I am sharing them, if that’s okay?
Being that I’m inundated with emails these days, I’d prefer not to get separate emails with your curated news/links. The particular news items you share are often directly related to your opining, which has already engrossed the reader (me). I’m more likely to take note at this point than to open yet more emails.
Yes, to the inclusion of solutions! Throw us a bone!
Thanks, Paula. And yes, please share anyway you wish. Once I get the gumption to deal with Twitter, I'll let everyone know and then that will be easier to spread the word.
Thanks, Hannah. I'd moved the curated news up to the top because it wasn't getting much attention at the end, but it feels like a roadblock there. So I'll keep it at the end and see how it goes. For now the vote is to keep everything in one email.
Thank you, Susan. For the moment you're outvoted, but I still like the idea of the separate email. It might wait, though, for another day when I've built the subscriber base to a point where it's worth asking again.
I loved this essay, and I greatly appreciate your inclusion of curated news, external references and links. Also, a group of us in the Boothbay Region have just started the Boothbay Region Clean Drinking Water Initiative. We have big plans for her Majesty Fresh Water.
Thanks, Paula, and I'm glad you're still working to look after the water supply. That's critical work there, especially. Regarding my survey here, would you rather have a separate email with the curated news, or keep it in the mix as I've done so far?
Loved this essay. And I love the curated news, and I don't want you to change the content, as long as it includes at least one solution each time. You COULD post it on a separate day, just to make your posts a little shorter....
I love what you're doing with this platform, and I've just posted this essay to Facebook. And the images are lovely.
Thanks, Lunden. I'll definitely always have some solutions-oriented material in the curated links. I've been wondering if people would like more of it. As for a separate email, so far the votes go (the few I've gotten) it's leaning toward keeping everything in one email. We'll see if that changes.
I appreciate the curated news as it is usually things I wouldn't have otherwise encountered. And some solution-oriented pieces would be welcome. Are you familiar with carbon fee and dividend, a form of carbon pricing where fossil fuels are taxed at the source and the fees distributed as dividends to households? It is a powerful solution, and one being championed by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse as the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act. S. 2307 in 2021.
Thank you, Sarah, for the input and especially for the information on carbon fee and dividend. I've only glanced at the concept. I'll take a deeper look.
Regarding the curated news, what do you think about having a separate weekly email vs. keeping it where it is?
I myself would prefer separate; that way I could read your piece and keep the other in my to be read file til I get to them all. Thanks.
Hi Jason! I'm a bit slow getting to this essay, but truly appreciate your prose and prompts. So, in answer to your questions, I like the curated news items included just as they are and do not think that they should be wholly focused on solutions -- a mix is nice.
Just finished the book "Sapiens" by Yuval Noah Harari in which the last line is "Is there anything more dangerous than dissatisfied and irresponsible gods who don't know what they want?" Hopefully, you're helping making us more responsible (not that we're gods, but we've been acting like them these last millennia) and helping clarify what we want.
Keep up the good work!
If you shut off the fire alarm, you lose the sense of urgency. Keep the mixture of problems and solutions. Your eloquence is needed on both counts.
Thanks, Tom. Appreciate your insight and the compliment.
I am getting a lot out of reading your essays, and I am sharing them, if that’s okay?
Being that I’m inundated with emails these days, I’d prefer not to get separate emails with your curated news/links. The particular news items you share are often directly related to your opining, which has already engrossed the reader (me). I’m more likely to take note at this point than to open yet more emails.
Yes, to the inclusion of solutions! Throw us a bone!
Thanks, Paula. And yes, please share anyway you wish. Once I get the gumption to deal with Twitter, I'll let everyone know and then that will be easier to spread the word.
Enjoyed this one! My vote would be to leave the curated news as is, at the end of your essay. Whatever seems relevant to you, solution or not.
Thanks, Hannah. I'd moved the curated news up to the top because it wasn't getting much attention at the end, but it feels like a roadblock there. So I'll keep it at the end and see how it goes. For now the vote is to keep everything in one email.
Keep the curated news but in a separate post/email.
Thank you, Susan. For the moment you're outvoted, but I still like the idea of the separate email. It might wait, though, for another day when I've built the subscriber base to a point where it's worth asking again.