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Leaked Map Reveals Big Gas Is Setting Its Sights on the Most Biodiverse Place on Earth
Leaked Map Reveals Big Gas Is Setting Its Sights on the Most Biodiverse Place on Earth Part of a map from Pluspetrol, an exploration and production company, showing its interest in areas of Manú National Park in Peru’s Amazon. (Pluspetrol) A leaked map shows that a private energy corporation based in Argentina is eyeing Manú […]
Worse Than Fossil Fuels? Why Bioenergy Is Not Green
Worse Than Fossil Fuels? Why Bioenergy Is Not Green An Interview with Princeton Research Scholar Tim Searchinger Bioenergy’s role in the global economy is growing as governments promote renewable biofuels and biomass electricity to replace fossil fuels. But in recent years, mounting scientific evidence has shown that bioenergy is not, in fact, carbon-neutral: hidden emissions […]
Big Oil, Big Tobacco, Big Lies
Big Oil, Big Tobacco, Big Lies Over the last few years, a growing number of people have been taking a hard look at what is happening to our planet – historic droughts, rising sea levels, massive floods – and acknowledging, finally, that human activity is propelling rapid climate change. But guess what? Exxon (now ExxonMobil) […]
Report: How Coal and Gas Industry Get Their Way In Fossil Fuel Rich Queensland
Report: How Coal and Gas Industry Get Their Way In Fossil Fuel Rich Queensland Where and how should the public expect negotiations between fossil fuel industries and governments be carried out? What kind of relationships should exist between fossil fuel corporations and the politicians and public servants who are part of the decision-making process that those […]
Richard Heinberg: After the Burn
Richard Heinberg: After the Burn Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS After a two-century-long burning bender, the globe is in for a heck of a hangover. Our guest this week on Sea Change Radio is Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow at the Post-Carbon Institute, and author of a dozen books about growth, peak oil, and energy issues. His latest […]
Storing Energy by Gravity
Storing Energy by Gravity – A simple and efficient way for large scale and long duration energy storage. Renewable energy technologies have come a long way since the first solar panels and wind turbines were built to harness the energy from sun and wind to meet the ever increasing energy demands of mankind. Advancements in […]
Peak Oil Ass-Backwards (part 3): Forget Austerity and Grexit – it’s Time for a Gretaway!
Peak Oil Ass-Backwards (part 3): Forget Austerity and Grexit – it’s Time for a Gretaway! “Taaaaake myyyyyy moneeeeey! Pleeeeeease!” So here we are on this precipice of sorts, staring upon the twilight of the industrial economy due to peaking energy supplies and thus peaking credit supplies (as explained in part 2 of this 3-part series). Simply put, being on […]
The stuff problem
The stuff problem ‘Yes to renewables!’ Hundreds rallied outside the Victorian Parliament House, Melbourne, 10 December 2013. Takver under a Creative Commons Licence How much mined material will we need to build a 100-per-cent renewable world? Danny Chivers works it out. The problem with wind turbines, solar panels, ground-source heat pumps and electric cars is that they’re all made of […]
Will Renewables Replace Fossil Fuels?
Will Renewables Replace Fossil Fuels? Renewable energy development has taken off in the United States over the past decade. Solar, wind, and other renewable technologies are projected to continue to grow rapidly. But renewables still have a long way to go to replace oil, coal, and natural gas as primary sources of energy. What will […]
Secret files: British government courting Arab tyrants, fossil fuel interests
Secret files: British government courting Arab tyrants, fossil fuel interests Official documents show how oil and business interests trump democracy A range of official government documents released under Freedom of Information (FOI) expose how the British government is valiantly promoting democracy in the Middle East: by courting the region’s most vociferous opponents of democracy. The […]
Exxon’s Own Research Confirmed the Role of Fossil Fuels in Global Warming Decades Ago
Exxon’s Own Research Confirmed the Role of Fossil Fuels in Global Warming Decades Ago Minale Tattersfield / CC BY 2.0 Oil giant Exxon conducted cutting-edge climate research in the 1970s, and then, without disclosing the findings of its scientists, worked to manufacture doubt about the scientific consensus of its own research. A groundbreaking investigation shows how the […]
Cap Fossil Fuel Production Now!
Cap Fossil Fuel Production Now! Climate scientists are in broad agreement that there are enough fossil fuels in the Earth’s crust that, if they were all burned, the result would be dramatically rising sea levels, extreme weather, plummeting food production, dying seas, and a mass extinction of species (possibly including our own). Therefore the only […]
Got Food? How Local Food Systems Can Build Resilience for Turbulent Times
Got Food? How Local Food Systems Can Build Resilience for Turbulent Times Corey Templeton The Deering Oaks farmers’ market, held every Wednesday and Saturday in Portland, Maine. Consider, for a moment, that lettuce leaf on your plate. It probably traveled a long way to get there—about 1,500 miles, on average.1 In fact, your dinner has probably […]
Hundreds Rally in Alaska to Tell Obama ‘Climate Leaders Don’t Drill the Arctic’
Hundreds Rally in Alaska to Tell Obama ‘Climate Leaders Don’t Drill the Arctic’ Climate groups rallied in Anchorage, Alaska yesterday to demand that the U.S. government, President Obama and Alaskan leaders take the urgent action needed to stop climate change. The “Rally to Confront the Glacial Pace of Political Action” took place as President Obama met with ministers from around the world […]
