Why we need cooperative accumulation
Co-operative accumulation must be framed as one important means…to navigate the cascade of challenges flowing from the need to rapidly uncouple fossil fuels as our primary energy source.
climate change
Letter from America #1: New Orleans and reflections on “awesome”
Time spent here, and talking to people, gives a sense of just how powerful the forces of nature are, and how we tamper with them at our peril.
Think global, act local, globally
Think global, act local, globally. That’s got to be the next step for this broader movement…
Bigger than that: (The difficulty of) looking at climate change
Sometimes the fate of the Earth boils down to getting one person with modest powers to budge.
Climate After Growth: Why Environmentalists Must Embrace Post-Growth Economics & Community Resilience
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.
How to deflate the carbon bubble
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.
IPCC Climate Report Release – headlines
•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’s Challenge in the 21st Century – Food Security
Africa as a whole is going to face two major problems in the 21st century: food security and adapting to climate change.
Faux Pause: Ocean Warming, Sea Level Rise And Polar Ice Melt Speed Up, Surface Warming To Follow
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.
Fracking – headlines
•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
If We Burn All the Fossil Fuels
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.
In Australia, an Uphill Battle To Rein in the Power of Coal
Coal mining has powered the Australian economy for decades.
