Where’s Dirk Gently When You Need Him?
Ultimately, trying to free the ship, or even convert it to run on green fuels or the latest in sail technology is treating the superficial layers. Instead, we need to dig deeper (yuk yuk).
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How to Run a Solarize Program
I get these crazy ideas sometimes. I thought doing a Solarize project (getting solar PV panels put on rooftops) would be a great project for Transition Town Media.
As temps rise, so do water protector arrests
Spring is bringing the heat to opponents of the Enbridge Line 3 tar-sands oil pipeline, as levels of arrests and citations for demonstrations against the private Canadian infrastructure project rise faster than at any time since construction began on it in December.
Building Community Resilience One Window at a Time
In 2019 the Vermont Charlotte Energy Committee and Transition Town Charlotte (population 4,500) participated in an exciting initiative to make and install inexpensive energy-saving window inserts in ten Charlotte homes and one community building.
New Poll Shows Overwhelming Support for Climate Action as Congress Weighs Big Infrastructure Bill
Americans support the steps taken by the Biden administration thus far to tackle climate change by large margins, according to a new poll.
The Hydrogen Myth: Technology and Religion in the Decline of Civilizations
Thinking of hydrogen on a grand scale as supporting a society as complex and wasteful as ours is simply a dream. Nevertheless, hydrogen remains popular nowadays just because of this impossible promise…
Hydrogen Economy 2.0 Part 2
This is part two of our three-hour interview with Dr. Simon Evans of Carbon Brief about their extensive survey of the developing hydrogen economy.
Textbook Tour: Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet
In this post, I take a bit more time to introduce new elements in the book that Do the Math readers have not seen represented in some form in earlier posts. In other words: what new insights or calculations lurk within the book?
Introducing ‘Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet’
The first thing is to announce the launch of a textbook at eScholarship ‘Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet: Assessing and Adapting to Planetary Limits’ that is free to access electronically
Jason Kenney’s Government Denounces the Bigfoot Family
Jason Kenney’s spin shop the Canadian Energy Centre (otherwise known as the War Room) has stuck another foot in its oily mouth.
Carbon offsets offer a fantasy of capitalism without crises
On some level, people want to believe in carbon offsetting because it offers to rekindle capitalism’s promise that we can enjoy consumerism without being too concerned about ecological crisis, by delivering a seductive story of power and status in which somebody else cleans up the mess.
Painting the world green
The fate of the United States has never been more linked—virally, environmentally, economically, and existentially—to the fate of the rest of the world.
