State of The Transition, June 2016: A Long List of Advances, a Short List of Setbacks – including Brexit
The list of main setbacks for the global energy transition in June includes a potentially big one: Brexit.
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BP: Global Coal Use Fell by Largest Recorded Margin in 2015
Global coal use fell by more than 70 million tonnes of oil equivalent (Mtoe) – a 1.8% decline – in 2015, the largest annual reduction in records going back half a century, according to BP.
A Brief History of Climate Denial
The fossil fuel industry has spent many millions of dollars on confusing the public about climate change. But the role of vested interests in climate science denial is only half the picture.
The Dithering Age: Holocene, Anthropocene, and Chthlucene
If people just hear that humans are destroying the environment, they aren’t given much incentive to act or even think much.
What Would a Global Warming Increase of 1.5 Degrees Be Like?
The Paris climate conference set the ambitious goal of finding ways to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, rather than the previous threshold of 2 degrees. But what would be the difference between a 1.5 and 2 degree world? And how realistic is such a target?
It’s Happening: 2016 is the Year of Climate Disobedience
Something truly incredible is happening. We’re only half way through it, but 2016 is a record-breaking year.
The Sustainability Commons: Using Open Source Design to Address Climate Change
A growing movement that combines open source design with sustainability is creating an exciting alternative to profit-driven, proprietary sustainability products.
Food Sovereignty and Climate Change
Industrial agriculture is grounded in the use of fossil fuel and high energy consumption. Campesino agriculture with an agro-ecological basis is the only force capable of achieving food sovereignty and responding to climate change.
State of the Transition, May 2016: Talk of twilight
World records tumbled in renewable energy this month.
Let Nature be Nature
We had two scientific papers shoved under our door, and both of are serious sources of hope for a world undergoing climate shock. They represent the two sides of the solution ledger, adaptation and mitigation.
New Report Knocks Down Pro-Pipelines ‘Fantasies’
Politicians who advocate for more bitumen pipelines and LNG exports are making a "have your cake and eat it too argument" because there is no way Canada can meet its climate change commitments under such a scenario
Planetary Crisis: We are not all in this together
“Building new political, economic and cultural systems and societies that are metabolically restorative, equitable, resilient, just, diverse and democratic. It is a challenge that could bring the different peoples of the world together, to build something better together and make history for the benefit of all people. We cannot afford not to try, nor to fail.”
