We own a home in the Sacramento region with $ 400,000 equity – we owe $ 255,000 on a home valued at $ 675,000. I can retire as early as 2029 with about $ 75,000 in a pension from the public retirement system and healthcare taken care of. The home loan will be about $…
As prices rise, everywhere, for pretty much everything, the prospect of the human suffering this will cause is deeply worrying. There are predictions that the number of people in the world experiencing acute hunger — currently 276 million — could soon rise by as many as 47 million. To address the problem, one thing that…
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Unprecedented forest fires in the drought-stricken Western United States. Tropical storms and rising seas threatening the Gulf and Atlantic coasts. Sizzling heat across swaths of the country. As climate change unfolds before our eyes, what can the US do to sharply and rapidly reduce its share of the greenhouse gas emissions that are causing it?…
