10 Successes of the Sustainability Movement to Date
What are some of the successes of the sustainability movement? What exactly can sustainists hang their hats on?
Renewable Energy
On Energy and Fairness
As part of our current theme on ‘Fairness’, we spoke to Juliet and started by asking her what, for her, does a fair energy system look like?
In Clash of Greens, a Case for Large-Scale Solar Projects
Weaning the U.S. economy off fossil fuels will involve the wide deployment of utility-scale solar power. But for that to happen, the environmental community must resolve its conflict between clean energy advocates and those who regard solar farms as blights on the landscape.
Renewable Energy: Why Emissions and the Economy Don’t Tell the Whole Story
A bragging point for the Clean Power Plan is its flexibility; all currently identified low-carbon energy sources can play a role in state plans, including natural gas, nuclear, hydropower and other renewables.
Undamming Rivers: A Chance For New Clean Energy Source
Many hydroelectric dams produce modest amounts of power yet do enormous damage to rivers and fish populations. Why not take down these aging structures, build solar farms in the drained reservoirs, and restore the natural ecology of the rivers?
Solar Access Warming For Renters
Is your home one of the millions that haven’t been able to get solar because you’re a renter? The good news is that policymakers are starting to look for creative ways to expand solar access.
The Community Energy Revolution
Impact investing is investing to achieve a return in something you also believe in and wish to support.
Dirty Energy vs. Clean Power
Let’s amend the famous line from Joni Mitchell’s “Yellow Taxi” to fit this moment in the Finger Lakes region of New York State. There, Big Energy seems determined to turn paradise, if not into a parking lot, then into a massive storage area for fracked natural gas.
Rural Colorado Leads the Charge for Energy Freedom
Last week the Western Slope Colorado witnessed a huge victory for energy freedom and rural renewable power.
“We are in danger of winning. But….”
First in-depth radio interview on The Winning of the Carbon War, on Radio Ecoshock. Covers road to Paris, reasons for cautious optimism, Solarcentury and SolarAid in holistic context as microcosm direct actions in the market.
Renewable Energy Redoubles its Global Reach
A significant threshold has been crossed by renewable energy as analysts report that the sectorʼs size last year reached double the level it was at just 10 years earlier.
Energy Crunch – six months to go
With fewer than six months to go until the UN climate summit in Paris, it’s worth asking: what’s been achieved in this very significant year for action on climate change? Recent news has certainly been positive, and from unusual suspects.
