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Heinberg on what to do at home
Heinberg on what to do at home Preface. A quick summary: Best investment: insulate exterior walls, ceiling, and floors for energy savings. Other good changes were to plant a garden and fruit-and-nut orchard, and buy solar hot water heater, solar food dryer, solar cooker, chickens, energy-efficient appliances Lessons learned: It is expensive, especially energy storage. […]
Wildfires Are Contaminating Drinking Water Systems, and It’s More Widespread Than People Realize
Wildfires Are Contaminating Drinking Water Systems, and It’s More Widespread Than People Realize Fire in one part of a community can contaminate the water system used by other residents, as Santa Rosa, California, discovered after the Tubbs Fire. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images More than 58,000 fires scorched the United States last year, and 2021 is on […]
Clean energy minerals shortage: Who knew it could happen?
Clean energy minerals shortage: Who knew it could happen? The race for so-called green energy has spawned another race, one for the minerals needed to make the devices such as solar panels and batteries that produce, store and transmit that energy. A hitherto largely unchallenged economic idea—that we will always have supplies of everything we […]
One Blue Earth
One Blue Earth Cici Luis – The blue Earth/flickr Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. – Harriet Tubman Here are three memories from backpacking trips in the virgin wilderness of the Pacific […]
Irreversible Collapse: Accepting Reality, Avoiding Evil
Irreversible Collapse: Accepting Reality, Avoiding Evil
Explainer: Will global warming ‘stop’ as soon as net-zero emissions are reached?
Explainer: Will global warming ‘stop’ as soon as net-zero emissions are reached? Media reports frequently claim that the world is facing “committed warming” in the future as a result of past emissions, meaning higher temperatures are “locked in”, “in the pipeline” or “inevitable”, regardless of the choices society takes today. The best available evidence shows […]
The Survivors Will Be Bioregional
The Survivors Will Be Bioregional I want to talk to all of you today about the humans that survived the current planetary predicament. How did they organize their lives? What was the key to their success? It is no secret that we are in the midst of a severe period of ecological collapse. The exploding human population lay […]
Is Earth’s climate about to pass the tipping point?
Is Earth’s climate about to pass the tipping point? Ed. note: This article first appeared in Spanish here. This is an interview with an expert (Ferran Puig Vilar) and award-winning author of a climate blog on tipping points. Photo credit: Ferran Puig Vilar. CEDIDA POR EL ENTREVISTADO The straw that breaks the camel’s back. The last time the […]
Why the public sector needs more dynamic procurement
Why the public sector needs more dynamic procurement There is a huge amount of pressure on farmers to farm more sustainably, but very little focus on how the market can support them in making the necessary changes to realise this ambition. ‘Dynamic procurement’ is a strategy to adjust procurement practices to better reflect and support […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XI
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XI Knossos, Crete (1993) Photo by author Yet another in an increasing collection of comments I have posted to the online media site The Tyee. This time it is a commentary on an article that reviews a book arguing in favour of the implementation of Universal Basic Income. * * * “No […]
Where Does Vancouver’s Urban Forest Need to Grow Next?
Where Does Vancouver’s Urban Forest Need to Grow Next? The city strategy faces a tricky challenge: inspiring the growth of trees on private land. Most of the tree loss in Vancouver’s urban forest has been caused by the removal of trees on private lands. Some say more can be done. Photo by Kaitlyn Fung. Over the […]
Climate Wars: IEA Warns Governments To Stockpile Battery Metals
Climate Wars: IEA Warns Governments To Stockpile Battery Metals China’s dominance in green energy technologies are rare earth metal production is very concerning to the International Energy Agency (IEA), who posted a stark warning Wednesday advising western governments to stockpile critical battery metals such as cobalt and lithium. IEA’s warning comes as the next chapter in US-China […]
Fantasies, Myths, and Fairy Tales
Fantasies, Myths, and Fairy Tales Advertisement from the mid-20th century I have often used this expression (the title) to describe many things people tend to think of as solutions for one thing or another that either are not solutions or are unrealistic at best in terms of actually solving something. For anyone just joining these […]
What Would a Deep Green New Deal Look Like?
What Would a Deep Green New Deal Look Like? Wind turbines in the Columbia Gorge. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. The Green New Deal has attracted perhaps the greatest attention of any proposal for decades. It would guarantee Medicare-for-All, Housing-for-All, student loan forgiveness and propose the largest economic growth in human history to address unemployment and […]
