By Cle-Anne Gabriel, Medium.com
The ‘post growth’ agenda envisions a future where economies do not grow infinitely. Degrowth is one of many routes to get there — by reducing the use of finite natural resources and addressing the social inequity that is inherent to the quest for endless economic growth.
By Roger Blanchard, Resilience.org
It’s worth considering that today’s children could still be around in 2100 and beyond when the global temperature increase could be 3 degrees C and higher.
By Andrew Curry, thenextwave
I think it’s fair to say that the recent Energy Outlook from the International Energy Agency represents a significant moment in the discourse around renewable energy.
By Vera Weghmann, David Hall, The Conversation
Beyond just grid ownership, publicly owned systems for generating electricity could also restore and expand the capacity for democratic control of a sector that provides a vital public benefit.
By Richard Heinberg, Resilience.org
The only real long-range solution to climate change centers on reining in human physical, social, and economic power dramatically, but in ways that preserve human dignity, autonomy, and solidarity.
By Annabelle Dawson, Thea Riofrancos, Green European Journal
Ideas are effective when people see themselves in them and want to fight for them, rather than something that is purely intellectual. We need to think in terms of the questions and ideas that can galvanise the militant and collective action that this moment requires.
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
Renewable Energy: Ten Short Lessons is a valuable primer on the physics of renewable energy, but isn’t a lot of help in establishing whether or not the existing world economy can be successfully transitioned to zero-carbon energy.
By Richard Heinberg, Resilience.org
In the best case, we will go through a transitional period in which we shrink our population and energy/materials usage while minimizing casualties and preserving the best of what we humans have achieved in these last few decades of anomalous energy abundance.
By Chris Nelder, The Energy Transition Show
Our returning guest in this episode, energy modeler Christopher Clack, says according to his recent modeling, that investing more into local solar will deliver more public benefits than investing in utility-scale projects.
By Josh Gabbatiss, Carbon Brief
Wind and solar capacity will double over the next five years globally and exceed that of both gas and coal, according to a new International Energy Agency (IEA) report.
By Jennifer Johnson, Red Pepper
Yes, confronting the climate crisis will require a switch from ‘dirty’ to ‘clean’ power. But it also demands a radical reconfiguration of environmental power dynamics.
By Iegor Riepin, Malte Jansen, Iain Staffel, Felix Müsgens, Carbon Brief
The offshore wind farms auctioned last September in the UK will most likely be the world’s first “negative subsidy” projects – wind farms that will pay money back to the government over their lifetime.