Nevada’s grid would work smoothly and reliably while delivering 50 percent of the state’s electricity from clean, renewable energy sources like solar, geothermal, and wind according to an analysis…
Wind and solar photovoltaic are way too small to cope with Europe’s massive demand for heating, especially in winter, says Christian Holter, who calls for allocating scarce renewable energy resources…
EU leaders must prioritise climate action to combat dangerous climate change when they gather in Sibiu for the ‘Future of Europe’ summit on 9 May, write the plaintiffs of the People’s Climate Case,…
We know our planet is in deep trouble — but that’s not what this particular Earth Day post is about. This is about what we can do to improve our state of affairs, and the technologies and initiatives…
China has a moratorium on building new coal-fired generating stations in ten regions of that vast country because they have more electricity available than there is demand for it. That moratorium is…
No one is coming to save us. Mass civil disobedience is essential to force a political response.
Ηad we put as much effort into preventing environmental catastrophe as we’ve spent on making excuses…
A low-cost shift to clean energy is now feasible for every region of the world, owing to the plummeting costs of solar and wind power, and breakthroughs in energy storage. The total system costs of…
Something strange is going on with the climate – not just in terms of the increased amount of extreme weather events such as heatwaves in the Arctic, Polar vortexes over New York and massive floods…
The beautifully simple design is everywhere following the protests of Extinction Rebellion – but why are its origins still shrouded in mystery?
he 1960s counterculture had the peace symbol, 1980s…
A new report has found that climate change could wipe out trillions of dollars’ worth of assets.
The report by the Network for Greening the Financial System has highlighted the serious effect that…
Pretending environmental protection and economic justice are separate public policy problems will prevent us from ever achieving either.
The Our Common Future report (Brundtland et al., 1987)…
Three developing nations are leaders in the race to find clean energy sources. We looked to see if they offer lessons on how to efficiently pivot away from fossil fuels.
The common expectations of Europeans are actually far from the divisions fuelled by politicians. This was highlighted by the WeEuropeans initiative, which managed to mobilise 2 million people and…
Since the late 1800s, power grids have been connecting electricity providers to citizens in cities all over the US. For several decades, these grids were rightly considered an engineering feat of the…
Apparently, the Koch Brothers believe in climate change when the market accepts it. To explain, Reason.com’s Hit & Run blog ran an article accepting climate change’s validity on 5 March 2019.
The European energy sector stands in front of a gargantuan task of becoming carbon neutral by 2050. Apart from the many technical challenges for achieving this ambitious goal, there is also a social…
Confidential documents prepared in advance of a two-day EU summit in Brussels have exposed an East-West divide in Europe on climate change, with Germany siding with Poland, Hungary and the Czech…
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