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Posted on January 23, 2018August 10, 2018

Riding to School in an Anthropocene School Bus

A year and a half ago, when the University of Montana's student-led transit agency made it the first college campus in the nation to buy its own electric buses, one line delivered by the bus manufacturer’s CEO Ryan Popple at the hand-over ceremony stuck out above all the others. “If parents realized how many diesel …

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Posted on November 20, 2017August 10, 2018

Teslas, Milk Floats, and Cultural Change

On Thursday last week, Elon Musk released a design for a battery-powered semi-truck. The sleek nose profile and promise of semi-autonomous electric convoys moving quietly down the highway did not create quite the sensation of Tesla’s earlier Model S and Model 3 cars. The truck, however, spelled the future in a way that nothing else …

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Christopher J. Preston is at various times a professor of philosophy, a commercial fisherman, a gardener, an author, and a student of powerful emerging technologies. The most inflated title he ever possessed was Distinguished Visiting Fellow in the Ethics of the Anthropocene.

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