Tar Sands Songbook
The Tar Sands Songbook asks us to reconsider our unseen relationships with oil.
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US Oil Exploration Drops by 95 Percent
What is less known, however, is that spending on oil exploration is fast dropping in the United States. Exploratory drilling has been decreasing year after year and now stands at only five percent of its 1981 peak.
Integrated Decentralized Power Systems
As more distributed energy resources arrive unbidden onto the power grid, they are increasingly requiring us not to just think about new utility business models, but to radically rethink what a utility might look like.
Why Now is the Time to Connect the Pipeline Fights
President Trump is moving to speed up pipeline construction just as the public is waking up to the need to keep fossil fuels in the ground. This is exactly the moment to move pipeline fights to a new level, by meeting the need for networking.
Using Maps as a Weapon to Resist Extractive Industries on Indigenous Territories
Our project, MappingBack, envisions mapping as a weapon and tactic to resist extractive industries. We see it as an excellent way to express complex Indigenous perspectives and relationships with the land.
A Postmortem for Survival: on Science, Failure and Action on Climate Change
Failing to learn from past mistakes is the only truly unforgivable mistake in science. And on climate change, the scientific community (by and large) has been criminally negligent when it comes to observing — and especially learning from — its own track record.
The US Chamber of Commerce’s “New” Take on Climate Change
The US Chamber of Commerce, through its Global Energy Institute (GEI), recently announced the launch of a major new climate initiative called the American Energy: Cleaner, Stronger campaign
New York City’s Newly Passed Green New Deal, Explained
As the rest of the country continues to go back and forth over the possibility of a nationwide Green New Deal, New York City is forging ahead with its own version.
Chevron and Exxon Say They Can Turn Around the Failed Finances of Fracking Industry
Why would major oil companies choose to invest in an industry that has failed to turn profits in the past decade?
Climate Change Mitigation: Is it a Good Idea to Sweep the Carbon Under the Carpet?
But fossil fuels are doomed by depletion in any case, so what sense does it make investing the few resouces we still have in a technology that doesn’t have a future? In the end, CCS is mainly a failure of the imagination: we can and we should do much better than sweeping the carbon underground.
From Oil Crisis to Energy Revolution – How Nations Once Before Planned to Kick the Oil Habit
As the world now gets to grips with the realities of making a rapid transition away from fossil fuels in the next decade, is it time to look again at how quickly we moved back in the 1970s, when we had to?
Energy Equity: Bringing Solar Power to Low-Income Communities
Community or shared solar is broadly defined as a project where multiple participants own or lease shares in a mid-sized solar facility usually between 500 kilowatts and 5 megawatts, and receive credits that lower their monthly utility bills based on how much power the facility delivers to the grid.
