Let’s Define Degrowth before we Dismiss it
The reluctance of degrowth-critics to define growth makes for poor debate.
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Too Little, Too Late
Last week, after a great deal of debate, the passengers aboard the Titanic voted to impose modest limits sometime soon on the rate at which water is pouring into the doomed ship’s hull.
Paris: the Untold Story
This is a report about COP21 that didn’t make the headlines…
To Protect Monarch Butterfly, A Plan to Save the Sacred Firs
Mexican scientists are striving to plant oyamel fir trees at higher altitudes in an effort to save the species, as well as its fluttering iconic winter visitor — the migrating monarch butterfly — from the devastating effects of climate change.
The problem with REDD+
When people take to the streets and demand climate justice, they expect their elected leaders to step up and address the drivers of what is clearly the largest global crisis humanity has ever faced.
Coal Mining’s Financial Failures: Two Thirds of World’s Production Now Unprofitable
Sixty-five percent of the world’s coal production is unprofitable at today’s prices, a new research report by Wood Mackenzie, a commercial intelligence company often cited by investment analysts and the coal industry itself, concluded.
Australia’s Powerful Web of Grassroots Climate Resistance
In times of crisis, the only reasonable response is to intervene, and it’s time for civil society in Australia and elsewhere to build the pathways needed to allow people to step into powerful nonviolent direct action.
What Geological, Economic, or Policy Forces Might Limit Fossil Fuel Production?
Is Peak Oil Dead and What Does It Mean for Climate Change?
As We Adapt to Climate Change, Who Gets Left Behind?
The documentary Weather Gone Wild reports on inventive ways officials and ordinary people are adapting to the predictable unpredictability of the more extreme weather we are experiencing—and will continue to experience, more intensely—due to climate change.
COP21 and “4 per thousand” – Storing Carbon in the Soil
It would have been a remarkable oversight, had not our use of the land and its soils featured among the discussions about climate change mitigation in Paris at COP21.
The Latest Chapter
In Elizabeth Kolbert’s excellent 2002 article “Ice Memory,” climatologist J. P. Steffens — who studies ice cores from his base on the frozen wastes of Greenland– says our frenzied growth in this one era could only happen because we have been fortunate enough to have a period of calm in the storm.
Renewable Energy After COP21: Nine issues for climate leaders to think about on the journey home
COP21 in Paris is over. Now it’s back to the hard work of fighting for, and implementing, the energy transition.
