Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
An historic agreement has been reached between Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), Friends of the Earth and other environmental and labor organizations to replace the Diablo Canyon nuclear reactors with greenhouse-gas-free renewable energy, efficiency and energy storage resources.
The universal availability and use of electricity has come to define modern life, at least for the vast majority of North Americans and western Europeans.
David Fridley and Richard Heinberg present on our energy future.
Latin America has had one of the fastest-growing renewable energy markets on the planet for the past several years, but nobody ever talks about it.
Heavy-duty trucks are the main engines of civilization….If trucks stopped running, businesses would shut down within a week.
Scale and complexity issues are becoming a significant impediment to maintaining wind and solar growth rates.
As just about everyone knows, there are gaping chasms separating the worldviews of fossil fuel promoters, nuclear power advocates, and renewable energy supporters.
Thanks to state officials who have long supported renewables, Iowa now leads all U.S. states in the percentage of its energy produced from wind. Big companies, including Facebook and Google, are taking notice and cite clean energy as a major reason for locating new facilities there.
In percentage terms, Denmark is the world leader in energy transition, as well as the king of wind power.
We had two scientific papers shoved under our door, and both of are serious sources of hope for a world undergoing climate shock. They represent the two sides of the solution ledger, adaptation and mitigation.
The 20th century fossil-fueled economic growth spurt happened not because the energy industry created many jobs, but because it created very few jobs.
The solar revolution will continue to unfold, meanwhile, and the better that innovation teams in the clean energy industries deploy their design magic – in the broadest possible sense of that word – the quicker it will all accelerate.
