Solutions & sustainability – Sept 1
Fred’s footprint: Measuring our global impact
Duncan Law on climate change and transition initiatives
Staff
Renewables – Sept 1
Beyond wind and solar, a new generation of clean energy
Forbes on solar: the sunshine economy
Transport – Sept 1
Climate, conscience, and atmospheric carbon (air travel)
YouTube on Vélib’, the bike rental scheme that’s shaking up Paris
Energy & climate policy – Sept 1
China takes “urgent” energy challenge to masses
Nations agree on need for action on climate change
U.N. climate talks end in cloud of discord
Oil-producing nations will have to control gas flaring
World Bank calls on oil producers to cut $50bn gas fire
Home grown apples can save the planet…
An oil crisis is coming, to add to our climate change woes. And the only practical solution is in our own back yards.
Plastics & pollution – Sept 1
Plastic and the albatross
Message in the drink bottle: recycle
Not in whose backyard? (environmental justice)
Food & agriculture – Aug 31
Milk is the new oil
Biofuels and small farmers
Food demand and climate straining soils
‘Get Local’ campaign aims at its neighbours
Australia:
Goodman warns of a rise in food prices
Urban design – Aug 31
The city as massive gym: Living longer by walking more
More people, more concrete, and lots more heat in Phoenix
Climate policy – Aug 31
Germany advances India’s call for ‘Contraction & Convergence’
Greenpeace blocks Lake Erie coal freighter
China says one-child policy helps protect climate
Climate – Aug 31
Rising seas will threaten China’s south
Nature: Climate flooding risk ‘misjudged’
Ireland getting wetter
Energy policy – Aug 31
Lib Dems see zero-carbon Britain setting the global green agenda
Albania in throes of energy shortage
Ecuador: $350m to leave oil in the ground
Planetary thinking – Aug 31
The nexus of water, energy and climate
Dirt isn’t so cheap after all
Humans now use 25% of the Earth’s productivity
