Energy Crunch: changing the business model
Reports this week provided yet more evidence of vitality in green energy.Investment in renewables surged 17% last year.
climate change
Earth’s Second Lung Has Emphysema
In other words, if the world’s first lung is represented by all of the tropical forests combined, the second (and perhaps larger) lung is definitely the boreal forest.
Deep Concerns as Climate Impacts on Gulf Stream Flow
Climate scientists have once again confirmed an alarming slowdown in the circulation of the Atlantic Ocean − the process that drives the current that warms Europe, and powers the planetary climate.
As Himalayan Glaciers Melt, Two Towns Face the Fallout
For two towns in northern India, melting glaciers have had very different impacts — one town has benefited from flowing streams and bountiful harvests; but the other has seen its water supplies dry up and now is being forced to relocate.
Wendell Berry on Climate Change: To Save the Future, Live in the Present
All we can do to prepare rightly for tomorrow is to do the right thing today.
“The Creative Response to Climate Change”
Put it this way: we would never actually say "this is climate change". That doesn’t sit comfortably with us at all. We don’t like that bald categorisation of what we do.
Your Money or Your Life: Can We Afford to Work for Peanuts?
The old cliché of a mugger’s threat sums up well the choice before us in these times: "Your money or your life".
Naomi Oreskes on “Merchants of Doubt”
Naomi Oreskes, co-author of the book Merchants of Doubt believes that seeds of doubt about climate change have been planted quite intentionally.
Growing Threat to Amazon’s Crucial Carbon Sink
The Amazon rainforest, for so long one of the vital “green lungs” of the planet, is losing its capacity to absorb carbon from the atmosphere, according to new research.
The Global Coal Boom Is Going Bust: Report
A new report by CoalSwarm and the Sierra Club provides compelling evidence that the death knell for the global coal boom might very well have rung some time between 2010 and 2012.
As U.N. Backs Fossil Fuel Divestment, Bill McKibben on Vanuatu, Oxford Vote, California Water Crisis
As the Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu is devastated by Cyclone Pam, 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben links the storm to global warming and responds to the new decision by the the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to back the fast-growing divestment campaign to persuade investors to sell off their fossil fuel assets.
Lessons from São Paulo’s Water Shortage
It’s getting harder and harder to separate nature’s role in disasters from our own, and the dire water predicament confronting São Paulo, Brazil, is no exception.
