An Introduction to the State of Energy Storage in the U.S.
A look at energy storage options in connection with wind and solar power is not entirely reassuring.
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Waste Watch: Fashion Rental Services Expand, NYC Tackles Commercial Textile Waste
More retailers join the clothing rental party, but that won’t seriously dent the environmental impact of the fashion industry.
Read more...America’s War Exceptionalism Is Killing the Planet
War is America’s new normal, and it’s deadly.
Read more...Oil and Gas Industry Rebukes Fracking Ban Talk as UN Shows Just How Much Fossil Fuel Plans Are Screwing Climate Limits
American Petroleum Institute steps up lobbying efforts to thwart a fracking ban, notwithstanding the climate crisis.
Read more...Neoliberalism and Climate Change
How economists have contributed to climate change inaction.
Read more...Sir Ivan Rogers Plays Cassandra Again, Warns of Likely 2020 Brexit Trade Negotiations Train Wreck
Another incisive Brexit reading by Sir Ivan.
Read more...The China Cables: Leaked Classified Chinese Documents Confirm China Running Massive Concentration Camps to “Re-educate” Uighurs
A document leak gives chilling insight into the biggest detention of an ethnic group, the Uighurs, since the Holocaust.
Read more...Health Care Dysfunction Makes It to the Presidential Debate
A damning compendium of what ails the US health care industry.
Read more...‘Destroyer of Newspapers’ Vulture Fund Buys Majority Stake at Tribune Publishing
Newspaper unions express fear that Alden Global Capital “is looking to bleed its next chain of newspapers dry.”
Read more...Under Swollen Tides, Venice Says More About Our Future Than Our Past
Venice illustrates how climate change will force a sort of triage upon us, and it won’t be just about our cultural heritage.
Read more...America’s Arms Sales Addiction
The sorry history of how US arms sales have made the world less safe, and aren’t all that good for America either.
Read more...Non-Financial Private Debt Overhang: Post War German Debt Reforms as a Model for a Modern Debt Jubilee?
Private debt levels are even higher than in 2008 but super low interest rates make that look less worrisome than it arguably should be. T. Sabri Öncü ponders how to go about large scale debt relief.
Read more...New Paper Reveals Rail Industry Was Leader in Climate Denial Efforts
The rail industry has been able to hide behind the skirts of Big Oil in climate denialism.
Read more...Economic Warfare: Insights from Mançur Olson
War II lessons from Mançur Olson and how they apply now.
Read more...“Do You Have To Travel the World To Know What Poverty Is?”
A revealing discussion of poverty, in not a good way.
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