The high price of materialism
A war on climate change is a war on materialism, plain and simple.
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Mike Small on the Power of When Lots of People Do Stuff
You may feel as though your efforts, working in your local Transition initiative or doing other community resilience work, is just a drop in the ocean. Yet there is a huge power in it, especially when you look at it from the context of what happens when you add all that stuff up.
Environmental Debt
By focusing on developing the economy for decades, politicians and business leaders have done little to account for the environmental costs of growing industry. Now, economies worldwide are struggling to cover the increasing expenses of pollution and health care – But who is going to pay?
Extreme Overachiever Decade 2001-2010
These are the changes we’re seeing – a 0.8oC increase in global average temperatures – from carbon we burnt over a decade ago…
The decline of an empire
Given that City of Detroit has now officially filed for bankruptcy, it is worth looking at the bigger picture.
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.
