Here’s a fun little challenge you may want to take. Tune into some of the non-stop coverage of Hurricane Matthew, and count how many times climate change is mentioned. I’ll give you a warning: don’t hold your breath. That’s because …
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The Way of the World: More Solar, Less Coal
Here are a couple of stories that illustrate one simple truth about the migration to renewables: it’s happening. In the UK, more electricity energy was generated over the last six months by solar than by coal. At the same time, …
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Follow-Up on Nuclear Energy
In a recent post on our prospects for nuclear energy, I happened to mention that the U.S. is in a position to lead the world away from nuclear weaponry. Frequent commenter MarcoPolo writes: In this claim, there is the assumption …
Celebrating Human Excellence
If you get the opportunity to watch historian/documentarian Ken Burns deliver a lecture on the National Parks, or anything else for that matter, I urge you to seize it. I had the pleasure of being one of a couple of …
The Migration To Renewables Is Happening in Stages
As my colleague Jon LeSage points out in his Green Auto Digest, stricter emissions standards and falling battery prices have conspired to transform the automobile industry’s signature event, the Paris Auto Show, into a display case for electric vehicles. The …
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Bottlenecks in the Solar Industry
Frequent commenter John Roche writes: Regarding bottlenecks associated with the adoption of solar, many groups have said that infrastructure and power lines are issues, namely getting new power lines in and expanding old ones–and that it could take years. Bottlenecks …
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The Super Rich Are Cruising the Arctic’s New Passageway as the World Burns
If you like articles that lampoon selfish people, you can’t go wrong with this. Another fairly obvious way of looking at this subject: the rich and powerful people on this planet, i.e., those who have the capacity to do something …
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America and Human Rights
According to the Writer’s Almanac, it’s the birthday of the man who said, “America did not invent human rights. In a very real way, human rights invented America.” That’s Jimmy Carter, born in Plains, Georgia (1924). This is both so correct …
The Ideology of Environmentalism
Apparently, some readers freak out at the concept of an ideology’s driving climate change mitigation and other actions to promote environmental sustainability. One writes: (Someone) starts with an hypothesis formulated from an ideological/political/philosophic agenda….. Unfortunately, this sort of debate has …
Political Memes Are Everywhere, and Some of Them Are Incredibly Clever
Here’s one that speaks for itself; it’s the cover of a current edition of a literary magazine in Mexico. No need to learn Spanish to get this one.
