An inconvenient truth: US proposed emission cuts too little too late
The maths accompanying obligations to “avoid dangerous climate change” demand fundamental change rather than rousing rhetoric and incremental action.
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Scientists vindicate ‘Limits to Growth’ – urge investment in ‘circular economy’
A fundamental reorganisation of the way societies produce, manage and consume resources could support a new high-technology civilisation, but this would entail a new "circular economy" premised on wide-scale practices of recycling across production and consumption chains, a wholesale shift to renewable energy, application of agro-ecological methods to food production, and with all that, very different types of social structures.
8 Things You Should Know About The Biggest Thing A President’s Ever Done On Climate Change
On Monday morning, the Environmental Protection Agency released its proposed rule to limit the amount of carbon pollution that existing power plants can dump into the atmosphere.
Endless Layers Of Delusion
The layers of delusion in which members of society have wrapped themselves, so as to not have to face up to the hard choices that face us, are seemingly endless.
On the Road to Green Energy, Germany Detours on Dirty Coal
Behind the millions of solar panels and wind turbines and electric cars, Germany has a dirty secret: its addiction to lignite, also known as brown coal.
What climate activists should learn from the Monterey Shale downgrade
Most climate activists believe that talking about limitations on fossil fuel supplies hurts their argument for swift, decisive action on climate change. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Let them eat carbon
As concern over climate change begins to lower the demand for fossil fuels in the United States and Europe, they are accelerating their sales to developing nations…
The Bees’ Needs
Burkle and many other ecologists have hypothesized that wild pollinators are key to speeding up the process by which burned forests bounce back from barrenness to fecundity.
Boulder forms its own municipal utility
Since our last posting on Boulder’s municipalization efforts, the city has…succeeded in creating its own power and light utility.
Thailand militarisation is symptom of accelerating global system failure
Thailand’s latest authoritarian turn is a warning to us all.
The sower’s strategy: how to speed up the sustainable energy transition
In order to survive the double threat of resource depletion and climate change we need to move as quickly as possible to a sustainable society based on renewable resources.
Weather From Another Planet: Wildfires and Climate Change
TV news, as we pointed out recently in a FAIR study…, is intensely interested in extreme weather. But coverage that links weather events to climate is extremely rare.
