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Some Thoughts on Systems Change
Some Thoughts on Systems Change It becomes clearer with each passing day that simply ameliorating current problems is not going to be sufficient. This blog is about how we might scale up transformative change. There is an ongoing litany of alarming and depressing news regarding climate change and the growing gap between our aspirations for addressing […]
Our Fossil-Fuel Economy Destroys the Earth and Exploits Humanity – Here’s the Shift We Need to Be Sustainable
Our Fossil-Fuel Economy Destroys the Earth and Exploits Humanity – Here’s the Shift We Need to Be Sustainable Communities around the world are rewriting the rules of their economies and building something beautiful. plant in hands – grass background Photo Credit: Romolo Tavani/Shutterstock I am a Mexican immigrant and a senior at Columbia University who’s […]
UK Govt Report: Oil Companies Drilling in the Arctic Will Find It’s Unprofitable
UK Govt Report: Oil Companies Drilling in the Arctic Will Find It’s Unprofitable Major oil companies from the US, UK, Norway, Sweden, and Russia are all set to drill in the Arctic, but a report from the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) suggests they may be setting themselves up for failure. Drilling in the Arctic […]
100% Renewable Energy: What We Can Do in 10 Years
100% Renewable Energy: What We Can Do in 10 Years It will take at least three decades to completely leave behind fossil fuels. But we can do it. And the first step is to start with the easy stuff. If our transition to renewable energy is successful, we will achieve savings in the ongoing energy […]
United States On Path to Becoming Major Exporter of Natural Gas Despite Climate Impacts
United States On Path to Becoming Major Exporter of Natural Gas Despite Climate Impacts The Sabine Pass LNG terminal owned by Cheniere Energy in southwest Louisiana offers a glimpse of the challenges facing the growing natural gas industry in the United States. The first cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) was scheduled for export from Cheniere Energy’s new export […]
Peak Oil: Just A Distraction Pt 1
Peak Oil: Just A Distraction Pt 1 Remember, peaking in production, by definition, means that you have plenty of oil left. It has nothing to do with running out.…[T]he only people who ever use the phrase ‘running out of oil’ are people who either don’t understand Peak Oil, or people trying to mislead an audience […]
Groups Hand 360,000 Signatures to Justice Department Calling for “Exxon Knew” Probe
Groups Hand 360,000 Signatures to Justice Department Calling for “Exxon Knew” Probe With the hottest October in world history recorded recently, a slew of advocacy groups have delivered 360,000 petition signatures to the U.S. Department of Justice, calling for a probe of petrochemical industry giant ExxonMobil’s history of funding climate change denial despite what the company knew about climate science. The […]
Anxiety turns to fear: Markets, energy, Pan and the zeitgeist
Anxiety turns to fear: Markets, energy, Pan and the zeitgeist The characteristic feeling of the post-2008 world has been one of anxiety. Occasionally, that anxiety breaks out into fear as it did in the last two weeks when stock markets around the world swooned and middle class and wealthy investors had a sudden visitation from […]
The IMF Tells a Half-Truth
The IMF Tells a Half-Truth On May 18 the International Monetary Fund (IMF) published a report titled “How Large are Global Energy Subsidies?” The question is a bit misleading: most readers, when they see the word subsidy, probably tend to think of tax breaks or cash gifts to specific industries. The report, however, uses the term mostly […]
Coal Is Doomed Even If It Wins Against EPA In Courts
Coal Is Doomed Even If It Wins Against EPA In Courts The controversy over the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan has become the latest chapter in the chronicle of President Obama’s so-called ‘war on coal’. The plan promises many things, chief among them the health and climate benefits accrued by switching to cleaner burning […]
FBI Invokes National Security to Justify Surveillance of Tar Sands Protestors
FBI Invokes National Security to Justify Surveillance of Tar Sands Protestors The FBI has wide leeway to conduct surveillance on possible threats to “national security.” Where the rubber meets the road, of course, is who the Bureau decides constitutes such a threat. Both the president and the Pentagon have proclaimed that global warming is a threat to U.S. national security. But there’s no sign […]
Peak Oil: One Track Minds
Peak Oil: One Track Minds One could argue that the most dangerous push in our energy/environment discussion is that which seeks to stop/limit oil production and/or divest from oil companies. That’s because our primary fuel has nowhere near a significant substitute. As such, publicly-traded oil companies are the lone bastion between us and a complete […]
Union says U.S. refinery strike widened; cites unfair labor practices
Union says U.S. refinery strike widened; cites unfair labor practices (Reuters) – The United Steelworkers union said on Saturday the strike by U.S. refinery workers is expanding to two more plants early on Sunday due to unfair labor practices by oil companies. Walk-outs at BP Plc’s Whiting, Indiana, refinery and the company’s joint-venture refinery with […]
Essential Oil Production Statistics – February 2015
Essential Oil Production Statistics – February 2015 This is the second in a monthly series of posts chronicling the action in the global oil market in 12 key charts. The January 2015 post is here. EIA oil price and Baker Hughes rig count charts are updated to end January 2015, the remaining oil production charts are updated to December 2014 […]
