Keeping cool without costing the earth
This is one of the greatest challenges for rapid transition in our warming world: as temperatures rise, and extreme heat events become more frequent and severe, how can we keep cool without costing the Earth?
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Is it time to ration energy?
In Bookchin’s view, freedom wasn’t about doing whatever the heck we want and letting others clean up the mess. Real freedom was the freedom to collectively determine how to satisfy our needs in a precious and finite world.
Climate Deniers and the Language of Climate Obstruction
Understanding how opponents of climate action employ these discourses of delay is essential to recognizing climate disinformation and misinformation, Arena said, and ultimately to disrupting it.
Ten Little Euphemisms: What Do They Portend for Climate Policy?
Like an environmental impact study, a federal rulemaking can take several years to complete. Legal challenges can extend the overall process by years.
Oops! U.S. oil and gas exports fuel domestic price rise
The oil and gas industry got U.S. export restrictions lifted in the last decade promising that there would be so much production that the United States would have plenty for domestic use and export. Rising prices of oil products and natural gas have Americans rethinking that policy.
Climate Policy in a Republican World
It now appears that Republicans can at least talk about climate change in non-derisive terms. However, as evidenced by the proposed policy platform, the GOP has hardly changed its tune. Only the lyrics are different.
Revealed: Policing bill was dreamed up by secretive oil-funded think tank
The UK government’s legislative crackdown on protest in England and Wales was dreamed up by a secretive right-wing think tank that had been funded by US oil giant ExxonMobil, openDemocracy can reveal.
How the US can cut its emissions in half by 2030
Our article shows that the next steps in reaching the 2030 US climate target are clearer and increasingly affordable, but require new supporting policies to get there.
Wind Power Is (Finally) Having a Moment
A surge in offshore wind projects has helped make wind power a renewable force.
What people don’t get about this inflation spike
So the truth is this: Civilization largely has used fossil fuels to destroy robust natural ecosystems and to replace them with artificial and fragile ones.
The Other Reason for Putin’s Rush to War: Russian Oil Dependency
These skirmishes illustrate how deeply interwoven petroleum politics has become with the culture and geopolitics of Russian’s foreign policy. This is not the Cold War. Oil dependence is Putin’s bane, and ours.
Electric co-ops are well situated to lead the green energy transition, report finds
A new report by the Democracy Collaborative has found that community utilities — those that are publicly or cooperatively owned — are better suited for a green transition than their for-profit corporate counterparts.
