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Musk: Electric Cars Will Require a Lot More Electric Power Than We Currently Have
Musk: Electric Cars Will Require a Lot More Electric Power Than We Currently Have AP Feed Tesla CEO Elon Musk says we’ll need more electricity to power cars like his. A lot more. Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Tuesday that electricity consumption will double if the world’s car fleets are electrified, increasing the need […]
One Little Problem with the “All-Electric” Auto Fleet: What Do We Do with all the “Waste” Gasoline?
One Little Problem with the “All-Electric” Auto Fleet: What Do We Do with all the “Waste” Gasoline? Regardless of what happens with vaccines and Covid-19, debt and energy–inextricably bound as debt funds consumption– will destabilize the global economy in a self-reinforcing feedback. Back in the early days of the oil industry (1880s and 1890s), the […]
Kinder Morgan Pipeline Spills up to 42,000 Gallons of Gasoline Into California Drainage Canal
Kinder Morgan Pipeline Spills up to 42,000 Gallons of Gasoline Into California Drainage Canal A pipeline leaked tens of thousands of gallons of gasoline into a waterway in Walnut Creek, California. California Office of Spill Prevention and Response / Facebook A Kinder Morgan pipeline leaked tens of thousands of gallons of gasoline into a waterway in Walnut Creek, California, prompting […]
The Dark Side of Solar Power
THE DARK SIDE OF SOLAR POWER Everybody loves solar power, right? It’s nice, clean, renewable energy that’s available pretty much everywhere the sun shines. If only the panels weren’t so expensive. Even better, solar is now the cheapest form of electricity for companies to build, according to the International Energy Agency. But solar isn’t all apples […]
UNEP: Net-zero pledges provide an ‘opening’ to close growing emissions ‘gap’
UNEP: Net-zero pledges provide an ‘opening’ to close growing emissions ‘gap’ The recent net-zero pledges by major emitting countries and the potential for a “green recovery” from the Covid-19 pandemic “presents the opening” for the world to close the growing “gap” between existing commitments and what is needed to limit global warming to meet the […]
Who eats local food?
Who eats local food? The question of who eats local food is a tricky one to pin down. There is first the question of what constitutes ‘local food’ – if you’re a farmer raising grass-fed beef or lamb in Wales that you then sell across country, most people would say that’s local enough; but what […]
Time to Get Defiant: Improving Our Collective Food Awareness
TIME TO GET DEFIANT: IMPROVING OUR COLLECTIVE FOOD AWARENESS In the final blog in our series about a post COVID-19 sustainable food future, Bristol public health medic Dr Angela Raffle explores how we find ways to help everyone in the city understand where our food comes from. How do we radically shift our collective awareness […]
Global soils underpin life but future looks ‘bleak’, warns UN report
Global soils underpin life but future looks ‘bleak’, warns UN report It takes thousands of years for soils to form, meaning protection is needed urgently, say scientists Scientists describe soils as like the skin of the living world, vital but thin and fragile, and easily damaged by intensive farming, forest destruction, and pollution. Photograph: Zsolt […]
The curse of ‘white oil’: electric vehicles’ dirty secret
Brine pools and processing areas of the Rockwood lithium plant on the Atacama salt flat, Chile. Photograph: Iván Alvarado/Reuters The curse of ‘white oil’: electric vehicles’ dirty secret The race is on to find a steady source of lithium, a key component in rechargeable electric car batteries. But while the EU focuses on emissions, the […]
Investing For The Greenwash Bubble
Investing For The Greenwash Bubble Update: Ironically, this post has been censored by Facebook and other social media co’s, despite it containing no factual errors. Greenwashing, in case you don’t know, is the “disinformation disseminated by an organization so as to present an environmentally responsible public image”. You know, this sort of thing: This is taken […]
Transforming life on our home planet, perennially
Transforming life on our home planet, perennially Ed. note: This piece is the first contribution in the new book The Perennial Turn: Contemporary Essays from the Field, ed. by Bill Vitek and published as a free ebook by New Perennials Publishing. For those who are willing to face the multiple, cascading crises that humans have created, […]
Threatened by Coal, Ranchers Take the Kenney Government to Court
Threatened by Coal, Ranchers Take the Kenney Government to Court Alberta is poised to let miners destroy mountaintops and vital watersheds grazed for a century. Mac Blades (foreground) carries on his family’s 100-year ranching tradition on the slopes of Alberta’s Rockies. He and his wife Renie joined a lawsuit to stop open-pit coal mining in […]
NET ZERO — Everyone, from countries to companies, is talking about it – But what does it really mean?
NET ZERO — Everyone, from countries to companies, is talking about it – But what does it really mean? BEWARE — Turns out that not all Net Zeros are created equal – Some are “greenwashing” with big loopholes to slip through. — ClimateAdam “You see, everyone from countries to companies are announcing their net zero targets. […]
