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How to Get Off Fossil Fuels Quickly—and Fairly
How to Get Off Fossil Fuels Quickly—and Fairly Researchers from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) discuss panel orientation and spacing for a project on simultaneously growing crops under PV Arrays while producing electricity from the panels in South Dearfield, Massachusetts. The project is part of the DOE InSPIRE project seeking to improve the environmental compatibility […]
Why Cleantech Investment Should be a High Priority Now and after COVID-19
Why Cleantech Investment Should be a High Priority Now and after COVID-19 Prior to the COVID crisis, progression to Net Zero carbon neutral emissions was rising to the top of the policy agenda in many countries. Understandably, the global health and economic crisis has thrown a spanner into the works. It is crucial though, Robyn […]
Clean Tech Versus a People’s Green New Deal
Clean Tech Versus a People’s Green New Deal Rich nations’ proposals for greening the economy need to acknowledge that their wealth rests on economic exploitation and ecological spoliation of poorer countries. The Green New Deal (GND), Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s draft legislation to reduce US carbon dioxide emissions, was literally 2019’s talk of the town. Climate […]
Dammed Good Question about the Green New Deal
Dammed Good Question about the Green New Deal Hydroelectric power from dams might be the thorniest question that proponents of the Green New Deal (GND) have to grapple with. Providing more energy than solar and wind combined, dams could well become the backup for energy if it proves impossible to get off of fossil fuels fast […]
A Mining Explosion: The Dirty Little Secret Of The Green Revolution
A Mining Explosion: The Dirty Little Secret Of The Green Revolution Leftwing darling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s proposed Green New Deal, despite its flimsy 14 pages total, is nothing if not all-encompassing and vaulting in its ambition. The bill was also crucial to Ocasio-Cortez’s rapid ascent to acronym status and anointing as the queen of green. Thanks […]
Energy vs DNA
Energy vs DNA Hmm, energy. Is it a good idea I be drawn back into the subject? We used to do so much on the topic, Nicole Foss and I, in the first years of The Automatic Earth, and before that at the brilliant Oil Drum, where we had all those equally brilliant oil professionals […]
‘Planet of the Humans,’ Possibly Most Bracing Environmental Documentary Ever Made, Premieres at Traverse City Film Festival
‘Planet of the Humans,’ Possibly Most Bracing Environmental Documentary Ever Made, Premieres at Traverse City Film Festival Director Jeff Gibbs argues we’re heading toward ‘total human apocalypse’ and green energy is ‘not going to save us, it’s actually going to kill us faster’ Films about environmental issues have long been a staple of the documentary […]
The Green New Deal and Accursed Wealth
The Green New Deal and Accursed Wealth Pulp mills, Longview, Washington. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Accursed Wealth! O’er bounding human laws,Of every evil thou remains’t the cause:Victims of want, those wretches such as me,Too truly lay their wretchedness to thee:Thou art the bar that keeps from being fed,And thine our loss of labour and of […]
Central Bankers Go Green… Why?
Central Bankers Go Green… Why? I was told many depressing things as a child. Watching World Vision infomercials educating the west to the want and misery suffered by millions of children in the third world, I wasn’t alone in asking adults “why”? When I enjoyed all the comforts of food security, electricity and running water, […]
Trump Praises US Energy Independence After Saudi Attack: “We Don’t Need Middle Eastern Oil”
Trump Praises US Energy Independence After Saudi Attack: “We Don’t Need Middle Eastern Oil” With international oil prices soaring following this weekend’s attack in Saudi Arabia, which has indefinitely crippled as much as half of its oil-production capacity, President Trump sent a tweet Monday morning to try and reassure markets that the US is now […]
False hopes for a Green New Deal
False hopes for a Green New Deal If the ‘Green New Deal’ is our best answer to the climate crisis, then we have no answer to the climate crisis. In recent months the ‘Green New Deal’ has given hope to many on the Left as a promising solution to climate breakdown. Having been championed by […]
Toward Climate-Catalyzed Social Transformation?
Toward Climate-Catalyzed Social Transformation? Applying the work of Erik Olin Wright to emergent climate change movements helps us to understand current trajectories and possible pathways for transformation. In the past weeks, Extinction Rebellion has continued to make news headlines with acts of protest in London, Boston, New York and other cities across the globe. In London, thousands of activists blocked roads and […]
How to Build the Green New Deal? Cities and States May Already Have Answers
How to Build the Green New Deal? Cities and States May Already Have Answers There’s much to learn from local efforts — and good reasons why they’ll need to be part of the process, experts say. But can states do it on their own? Over the past several months, legislators in Washington have engaged in […]
A War Reporter Covers “The End of Ice”–And It Will Change the Way You Think About Climate Catastrophe
2Photos: Getty Images Animation: The Intercept A WAR REPORTER COVERS “THE END OF ICE” — AND IT WILL CHANGE THE WAY YOU THINK ABOUT CLIMATE CATASTROPHE FOCUSING ON BREATH and gratitude, Dahr Jamail’s latest book, “The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption,” stitches together personal introspection and gut-wrenching […]
