Weathering the Storms, Planting the Seeds
Fundamentally, we have to “hospice what’s left of the system we’re leaving behind, while planting the seeds for the future we’re building.”
climate change
Why We Can’t Ditch the 2 C Warming Goal
On Oct. 1, David G. Victor and Charles F. Kennel wrote an opinion piece that appeared in the journal Nature, Ditch the 2 C warming goal.
Review: This Changes Everything – Capitalism vs. the Climate
Climate activists, she believes, need to take a similarly clear moral stance. And as she writes, ‘the climate movement has yet to find its full moral voice on the world stage, but it is most certainly clearing its throat’.
Degrowth-movement refuted by climate-report? No, not at all!
[I]nternational media, governments and the United Nations enthusiastically welcomed a new report entitled “Better Growth, Better Climate” and trumpeted its central message around the globe: that economic growth and tackling climate change can go hand in hand….
Beating Climate Change by Retooling the Economy—The Story Begins in Navajo Country
While the burning of fossil fuels causes climate change, simply shutting down these industries leaves workers and their families behind, and often result in a familiar conflict over “jobs versus the environment.”
Letter to the PM outlining how 2°C demands an 80% cut in EU emissions by 2030
The letter summarises why the IPCC’s carbon budgets for a “likely” chance of not exceeding the international community’s 2°C commitment, requires the EU to reduce the emissions from its energy system by 80% by 2030, with complete decarbonisation just a few years later.
Inspiring New Film, “Voices of Transition,” on the Agriculture That We Need
How will agriculture have to change if we are going to successfully navigate past Peak Oil and address climate change?
Fracking Moves To China, Part II
Host Alex Wise caught up with Mother Jones journalists Jaeah Lee and James West to talk about how U.S. oil and gas interests are exporting fracking around the globe and how the technology may pose risks in China that even exceed those associated with coal.
The Krugman Function
Fresh thinking is difficult to perform and is often poorly received, but is not without some pleasures as well.
Is Soil Carbon Enough?
But are solutions enough anymore?…In other words, how do we help foster a regenerative carbon economy?
Trapped in Techno-Scientism: Is this hindering our becoming an eco-city?
The project of modernity to achieve human self-determination and freedom is a struggle against the limits imposed by nature.
Don’t muddle energy efficiency with reducing emissions!
I don’t think Zachary’s arguments that “Naomi Klein Is Wrong” stack up. True to say Naomi does not have all the answers – but who does?
