Apres Moi le Deluge
“The American way of life,” George H.W. Bush infamously declared in 1992, “is not-negotiable.” This presents a problem if the American way of life is also unsustainable.
climate change
Business as usual is planetary suicide. Time to slay Zombie Big Oil
It’s now increasingly recognised that the transition into the post-carbon era must involve not simply "adaptation" and "mitigation" but entail radical transformation of our societies at multiple levels.
Climate change: “the biggest diplomatic challenge of all time”
By 2020, we have to switch from increasing emissions across the world at 1.8% per annum to decreasing at 3.2% per annum. That’s a very big challenge, but that is what margin we’re left with in managing this very very important problem.
Fracking – headlines
•Will the Monterey Shale be an energy and economic boon for California? •Recognition in US of impact and cost of climate change •EIA: Tight-oil production pushes up US supply •After shale gas, now for tight oil •Financial questions seen for US shale gas, tight-oil plays •Gas industry rejects US expert warning on fugitive emissions
Foreward from Notes to Nowhere
The illusion that progress will solve the problems of the future is presented to obscure the ancient truth that future-problems are created by the present.
Exxon Is Behind The Landmark Climate Report You Didn’t Hear About
Climate change is already impacting all continents. But it isn’t yet impacting all companies.
It’s SHOWTIME For Climate Change
I’ve been working for the past few months in this pint-sized piece of paradise designing a community education ‘template’ which integrates the practices and teachings of Yoga and Mindfulness with learning basic principles about climate change and how to adapt and take action.
Conservative Climate Panel Warns World Faces ‘Breakdown Of Food Systems’ And More Violent Conflict
The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued its second of four planned reports examining the state of climate science…As with every recent IPCC report, it is super-cautious to a fault and yet still incredibly alarming.
Profiting from climate change
"On Wall Street you no longer get a lot of climate denial," according to author McKenzie Funk. Largely indifferent to the causes of climate change, his respondents decided early on that investing in green technology was a losing proposition. Instead "the warmer the world, the less habitable it became, the bigger the windfall."
IPCC Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability – headlines
•Panel’s Warning on Climate Risk: Worst Is Yet to Come •Conservative Climate Panel Warns World Faces ‘Breakdown Of Food Systems’ And More Violent Conflict •Big impacts: The main messages from today’s big UN climate report
Former oil man calls for renewable “Renaissance” to ward off shale dystopia
Despite its serious tone, The Energy of Nations: Risk Blindness and the Road to Renaissance, published by the reputable academic publisher Routledge, makes a compelling and ultimately hopeful case for the prospects of transitioning to a clean energy system in tandem with a new form of sustainable prosperity.
What climate “injustice” means for poorer communities
While the ecological and infrastructure impacts of climate change are becoming ever more self-evident, what about the social impacts?
