We Have the Renewable Energy We Need to Power the World—So What’s Stopping Us?
Can renewables really replace fossil fuels? If so, are we willing to do what’s necessary to get there?
climate change
Jeremy Leggett: “Make no mistake, this is an energy civil war”
No matter who’s right in the peak oil debates, there has always been easily enough oil and gas, combined with coal, to wreck the climate and bring down civilisation.
“If not us, then who? If not now, then when?”
This tear-choked call to action from Naderev Saño, lead negotiator for the Philippines at the Climate Conference in Doha 2012, is made absolutely heartbreaking by the events of the weekend.
Climate, resilience and geopolitics – headlines
•Obama Administration Takes Action on Climate ‘Resilience’ •Global security in the age of climate responsibility •Climate Change Seen Posing Risk to Food Supplies •CO2 levels hit record high •How the world is failing at its climate goals, in one giant chart •The Climate Mapping Tool You’ve Been Waiting For •2012’s carbon emissions in five graphs
Change The Earth
Our planet is in a state of emergency.
Why United Nations Climate Change Conferences Will Always Fail
Over two decades have already been wasted on an ineffective approach which is simply not up to the task of driving the fundamental societal changes needed to foestall dangerous climate change.
Beyond Keystone XL: Why One Maine Town Is On The Front Lines Of The Battle Against Tar Sands
On Tuesday, approximately 25,000 residents of South Portland will decide the future of what could soon become America’s next tar sands pipeline. Not Keystone XL; the Portland-Montreal Pipeline.
The propaganda campaign against peaking fossil fuel production
The two major threats to the continued viability of the fossil fuel industries (in our current economy) are decreased public demand for their products and a decreased ability to supply them.
Jonathan Chait Is Wrong: The Keystone XL Fight Is An Excellent Strategy And Tactic
I am generally a fan of progressive pundit Jonathan Chait. But his latest New York magazine column, “The Keystone Fight Is a Huge Environmentalist Mistake,” misses the mark.
Climate and hope on emissions? – headlines
•America delivers climate hope, again. US CO2 fell 3.8% last year •U.S. carbon emissions fell sharply in 2012. But don’t expect that to last. •Are global emissions heading for a permanent slowdown? •Study: Arctic Sea Ice Loss Shifts Jet Stream, Driving Deluges In NW Europe, Drought In Mediterranean •Unprecedented warming uncovered in Pacific depths
Lessons from Sandy a year later
To mark the anniversary of Superstorm Sandy, Josh Fox is encouraging people to watch his short film on storm cleanup and relief efforts, Occupy Sandy.
What’s the Connection Between Foster Care and the Ecological Stuff?
The fact that we can’t make professional institutions that duplicate the functions of family suggest that there is something about families that cannot be marketed, sold, professionalized or made into cookie cutter product…
