By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
Addressing the shortcomings of our housing stock in the face of increasingly frequent and severe heat waves could stimulate rapid transitions in a variety of key transition areas, such as heat pump installations and reclaiming streetscapes from cars.
By John Bistline, Carbon Brief
Our article shows that the next steps in reaching the 2030 US climate target are clearer and increasingly affordable, but require new supporting policies to get there.
By Tara Lohan, The Revelator
A surge in offshore wind projects has helped make wind power a renewable force.
By Robert Raymond, Shareable
A new report by the Democracy Collaborative has found that community utilities — those that are publicly or cooperatively owned — are better suited for a green transition than their for-profit corporate counterparts.
By Andrew Simms, Freddie Daley, Rapid Transition Alliance
Now’s the opportunity to insist – fiercely and unapologetically – that we want a rapid transition and we want the benefits to be shared by all.
By Chris Rhodes, Energy Balance
Moreover, some degree of decentralisation of our energy system would contribute to local and regional energy resilience, thus providing a necessary buffer against the many storms of a changing global climate that are likely to prevail upon us.
By Freddie Daley, Rapid Transition Alliance
Crises often contain the seeds of change, and as the tailwinds from the conflict begin to take hold across the globe, it’s possible that the conflict and sky-high fossil fuel prices could stimulate a ‘snap forward’ in terms of the energy transition.
By Sarah Spengeman, The Revelator
The state’s recently passed Climate and Equitable Jobs Act offers a model for other states to build coalitions to help communities and the planet.
By Andrew Curry, thenextwave
The economist Adam Tooze has an article on his newsletter assessing the cost of getting to net zero in Europe by 2050. It’s based on a close reading of a McKinsey report and a look at some of the assumptions in the technical report produced for the EU Commission.
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, Clifford W. Cobb, Resilience.org
We need to work out new ways of living—on individual, local, regional, national, and international scales—to prosper without economic growth and to develop our human potential without robbing the opportunities of future generations.
By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion
Progressives feel Manchin went back on his word about supporting a reconciliation package if Congress would first vote on the infrastructure bill. Trust within the Democratic caucuses is nearly non-existent.
By Chris Nelder, The Energy Transition Show
Are there fundamental limits to the energy transition that will slow it down, or prevent us from decarbonizing our energy systems?
