Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
In this provocative paper, PCI Executive Director Asher Miller and Transition Movement Founder (and PCI Fellow) Rob Hopkins make a convincing case for why the environmental community must embrace post-growth economics and community resilience in their efforts to address the climate crisis.
The fossil fuel industry hurts the climate – and the economy. In Norway, environmentalists and labour union activists have formed a new alliance, and published a book on how to wean the country off oil.
•Climate Change 2013: the Physical Science Basis •Carbon Brief’s guide to the IPCC report •Climate Panel Says Upper Limit on Emissions Is Nearing •Is global warming in a hiatus? Not if you measure global heat content •Global warming: why is IPCC report so certain about the influence of humans? •Climate Skeptic Groups Launch Global Anti-Science Campaign •Big business funds effort to discredit climate science, warns UN official
Africa as a whole is going to face two major problems in the 21st century: food security and adapting to climate change.
Much of the media believes climate change isn’t what gets measured and reported by scientists, but is somehow a dialectic or a debate between scientists and deniers.
•Study Revises Estimate of Methane Leaks from U.S. Fracking Fields•Experts: Fracking Methane Leakage Study Financed by Gas Industry With Partner, EDF, is Deeply Flawed •The Oil & Gas Industry’s Fractured Fairy Tales
Basically, if we burn all the fossil fuels, we’re all going down and taking the rest of the species on the planet with us, and we really will be the dumbest smart species ever to cause our own extinction.
Coal mining has powered the Australian economy for decades.
I drove the “Climate Change Highway”…what happens along this road in the next decade may well determine our future.
From prehistoric times to the present, human societies have successfully adapted to the challenges of a changing West, including periods of severe drought, limitations created by scarce resources and shifting cultural and economic pressures.
Colorado’s Front Range has been ravaged by heavy rain and flooding since last week, with 15 counties now impacted…
To overcome polarization on the issue of climate change, Yale professor Dan Kahan says in an interview with e360, scientists and the media need to frame the science in ways that will resonate with the public.
