The decline of an empire
Given that City of Detroit has now officially filed for bankruptcy, it is worth looking at the bigger picture.
climate change
Global Power Shift
Global Power Shift (GPS) is a planetary-scale project to spark a new wave of climate action around the world.
Why Our Energy Choices Matter in a Warming, Water-Constrained World
In a future of growing climate change impacts and water strains, the water implications of our electricity choices are way worth paying attention to.
A Radical Approach to the Climate Crisis
A more radical approach to the crisis of climate change begins not with a long-term vision of an alternate society but with an honest engagement with the very compressed timeframe that current climate science implies.
Climate, politics, media & money – headlines
•The World Bank cuts off funding for coal. How big an impact will that have? •Unprecedented extremes and warmest decade since modern measurements: grim report from World Meteorological Organisation •Recessions make climate change costlier, Hope family research finds •Can Republicans Take the Lead on Climate Change? •Reuters Exposed: Publication Openly Hostile To Climate Coverage, Top Editor Doubts Climate Science •Australian Leader Scraps Tax on Carbon EmissionsSeas may rise 2.3 meters per degree of global warming: report •Old Tactic in New Climate Campaign
Vale the reef
The Great Barrier Reef is dying…
Zero Carbon Britain: Rethinking the Future
Zero Carbon Britain: Rethinking the Future describes a scenario in which the UK has risen to the challenges of the 21st century. It is 2030. We have acknowledged our historical responsibility…
The high cost of railroading unconventional crude
The derailment and explosion of a shale oil train in Canada highlights desperate attempts by refineries along the US/Canada East coast to offset the conventional oil peak of Atlantic basin producers who traditionally supplied them with Brent type crude.
Risk and Resilience: Governors Ritter and Whitman
A conversation with two former state chief executives on bridging the partisan divide and adapting to climate change.
Your odds just shortened – Aussie Heatwaves
I’m sure you all remember the new colour that had to be created by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology for the weather maps when they maxed out above 50oC
Coal, climate, politics, and money – headlines
•U.S., China agree to cut emissions from vehicles, coal •The Coal Industry Knows That Enviros Are Winning •Carbon’s unburnable truth •In the board room, climate sceptics are nowhere •Climate Change Will Cause More Energy Breakdowns, U.S. Warns •How fossil-fuelled is your university? •Coal’s Over — Anyone For Wine And Cheese?
Betting on Climate Failure: The Ethics and Economics of Fossil Fuel Divestment
Naïve or Necessary? How does the economic and ethical case for divestment stack up?
