IEA: Renewables should overtake coal ‘within five years’ to secure 1.5C goal
The world needs a “radical” shift towards renewables to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 and secure the 1.5C goal, says the International Energy Agency (IEA).
Simon Evans
Friday essay: searching for sanity in a world hell-bent on destruction
In an age now widely described as the Anthropocene, the conventionally held distinction between sanity and insanity is at risk of collapsing … and taking our civilisation with it.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 40 Jodie Evans
Jodie Evans is the co-founder of CODEPINK and the after-school writing program 826LA. She has been a visionary advocate for peace for several decades. Jodie addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?
Post Growth: Excerpt
Our prevailing vision of social progress is fatally dependent on a false promise: that there will always be more and more for everyone.
Net zero: despite the greenwash, it’s vital for tackling climate change
It might seem odd to find supporters of climate action debating the merits of a concept that science shows to be essential for halting climate change, and which is accordingly embedded at the heart of the defining global agreement.
The Energy Bulletin Weekly 17 May 2021
Prices have been stuck in a range lately, with optimism around global inventories rebalancing being offset by constant reminders that parts of the world remain far from a full recovery from the pandemic.
From What If to What Next: Kate Soper and Tim Jackson
Might this be the time to forever do away with the idea that the only way to measure our progress, cultural, social, spiritual, economic, is purely by how much bigger our economy is than it was last year?
Mexico Makes Strides in Agroecology
Agroecology has arrived at Mexico’s 4T government. It has arrived not as an explicit and coherent State policy, but rather as a set of actions that get better as they are articulated and consolidated.
The Most Colossal Planning Failure in Human History
But let’s assume there is indeed enough time, and that we suddenly get serious about planning. What should we do?
Intensive Fishing and the Birth of Capitalism, Part 4
My goal, rather, is to draw attention to an important aspect of early capitalism that has been almost entirely ignored by all of the participants: the development and growth of intensive fishing in the North Sea and northwestern Atlantic Ocean in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Community Resilience in the Face of Disaster
Community Resilience in the face of disaster… What does it mean to care for your community in unprecedented times, and how do you successfully navigate a rapidly shifting landscape of needs, opportunities, and challenges?
Two hundred miles from Hartlepool
I think we’d all be better off if we focused on creating more actual jobs in local farming. After COP26, it’ll be easier to say whether those jobs are more likely to arise by design or default.
