Green New Deals….Yes….but What does that Mean?
Unfortunately there appears to be little recognition that such a Green New Deal must address a much bigger set of issues than merely climate change.
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Solar Freakin’ Roadways (Episode 5 of Crazy Town)
We’re GOING to make the transition to renewable sources of energy. There is no scenario outside the dark mind of Dick Cheney where we continue to use depleting and polluting fossil fuels over the long run to power society. So how exactly are we going to make the transition?
Renewables ‘Have Won the Race’ against Coal and Are Starting to Beat Natural Gas
The rapidly dropping cost of renewable energy has upended energy economics in recent years, with new solar and wind plants now significantly cheaper than coal power.
NAACP Reveals Tactics Fossil Fuel Industry Uses to Manipulate Communities of Color
The fossil fuel industry regularly deploys manipulative and dishonest tactics when engaging with communities of color, often working to co-opt the respect and authority of minority-led groups to serve corporate goals.
‘Insufficient,’ ‘Unknown,’ ‘Concerns’: BC’s Fracking Report Full of Apprehension
Although a government-commissioned scientific review of fracking in British Columbia released earlier this month occupies some 232 pages, the word “concerns,” as in “concerns regarding environmental impact,” pops up more than 130 times.
A Good Problem to Have
California has four basic challenges to resolve on its journey to using solely renewables + large hydro to power its electric grid.
‘Spectacular’ Price Drops for Clean Energy Obliterate the Cost Arguments against Green New Deal
Modernizing and decarbonizing the country’s aging energy infrastructure now has so many economic, environmental, and health benefits that the overall benefit of strong climate action would be enormous.
Energy Democracy: Taking Back Power
Electric utility (re)municipalization is gaining popularity as a strategy to shift away from a reliance on fossil fuel extraction in the context of combating climate change.
Britain Has its First New Deep Coal Mine in Decades – a Result of Pretending Climate Change isn’t Political
What the UK now needs is an open, positive political debate about how to meet its carbon targets, in place of the quiet ambiguity that has characterised the past decade.
One Point Twenty-One Jigawatts (Episode 3 of Crazy Town)
What would we do without energy? The short answer is, “Nothing, absolutely nothing.” And sadly, most people know next to nothing about energy and its fundamental role in society and life itself.
More Frack Quakes Rattle Alberta, Cause Deaths in China
Scientists can’t say when fracking will cause earthquakes due to a “paucity of validated predictive models to forecast site-specific seismic hazard.” But the quakes not only pose threats to nearby communities, they can make further fracking more difficult and dangerous.
A Modest Suggestion for the World’s Climate Strikers
Here is how: in addition to your “climate strike”, or as a substitute to it if or when you get frustrated of being denied the kind of change you want, embark with all the strength and enthusiasm of your youth on an “energy diet”. A big, fat, relentless and endless energy diet. Not only on Fridays, but every single day of the week, 365 days per year, for the rest of your life.
