Your gas tank is not an oil well. Your battery will not be a power plant.
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
But if we’re ready for a serious response to the climate emergency, we should be rapidly curtailing both the manufacture and use of cars, and making the remaining vehicles only as big and heavy as they actually need to be.
Sunshine, wind, tides and worldwatts
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
Renewable Energy: Ten Short Lessons is a valuable primer on the physics of renewable energy, but isn’t a lot of help in establishing whether or not the existing world economy can be successfully transitioned to zero-carbon energy.
altered landscapes
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
The much larger-scale but invisible transformation of our world – elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide levels – will outlast us and will wreak climate havoc for millennia.
Reclaiming hope from the dismal science
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
“Empowering and elegiac” might seem a strange description of a book on economics. Yet the prominent author and former economics minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis, chooses that phrase of praise for the new book Post Growth, by Tim Jackson.
Healthy, peaceful and more equitable – life in the low-car city
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
Where Building the Cycling City focused on the freedom to bike safely, Curbing Traffic pays more attention to the benefits of a low-car city for those who are not, at any given time, on bikes.
Going to extremes
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
It only took us a century to use up the best of the planet’s finite reserves of fossil fuels. The dawning century will be a lot different.
The fat-takers cross the oceans
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
From its beginnings more than five centuries ago, European colonization has been based on an unsustainable exploitation of resources.
The marginal uselessness of muscle-cars
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
Mainstream environmentalism, while advocating a swift and thorough transition to zero-carbon technologies, clings to the belief that we can, will, indeed, we absolutely must retain our high-speed cars and trains...