Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
But sometimes when things are out of my control, when it’s impossible to tackle big stuff because the money isn’t there and restrictions are pushing from all sides, it feels really good to make a small change that is under my control. Especially if it’s something I’m staring at heaps of.
The premise of systemic alternatives is that the environmental, economic, social, geopolitical, institutional and civilizational crises are part of a whole, are interrelated and feed into one another.
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) recently highlighted a little-discussed benefit of using renewables like wind and solar to produce electricity: Unlike most power sources, they require “almost no water.”
Energy and water are inextricably linked: It takes energy to supply water, and it takes water to supply energy.
In shift from coal and oil, water use and quality hang in the balance.
Does California have too much water? Seriously. Because our actions are sending peculiar messages.
The bad news is that the terrible drought in New Mexico has led some farmers to sell their water to the oil and gas industry. The worse news is that many of them are actually pumping the water out of the aquifer to do so.
In a future of growing climate change impacts and water strains, the water implications of our electricity choices are way worth paying attention to.
