Huge Capital Investment Required for U.S. Electric Industry’s Decarbonization
Electric utilities face massive costs to end their use of fossil fuels in power generation. What does that mean for consumers and the public?
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Five Christmas Fashion Trends We Should Bring Back – And May Be Found in Your Wardrobe Already
A lecturer in design and cultural theory provides environmentally friendly fashion advice for the holidays.
Read more...How to Make Recyclable Plastics Out of CO2 to Slow Climate Change
Chemists are manipulating carbon dioxide to make plastics for clothing, mattresses, shoes, and more.
Read more...This Generation’s Problem: Climate Chaos
Climate-change-induced extreme events look more and more imminent.
Read more...Is It Time To Embrace Geoengineering?
A long and useful recap of geoengineering methods.
Read more...Keep Capitalism Out of Conservation
Trying to use capitalsm to justify environmental protection: not a happy mix.
Read more...Big Meat and Dairy Delegates Triple at COP28
Big Ag fights back at COP28
Read more...Plastic Is Here to Stay. Can It Be Made More Sustainably?
Redesigning plastic requires making trade-offs between cost, scalability, emissions, toxicity, and more. But how about using less?
Read more...‘A Sick Joke’: Six Ways of Looking at a COP
Making sense of this COP means looking at optics and interests, and sadly not outcomes.
Read more...Solving the Climate Crisis Means Ending Our Addiction to Economic Growth
COP28 may toy with wide-ranging reforms needed to arrest a climate disaster. But arguablly necessary governance structures seem unattainable.
Read more...The Dutch Earthquake
Why did so many Dutch citizens vote for the far-right Geert Wilders?
Read more...Wall Street Journal: “Why No One Wants to Pay for the Green Transition”
The green energy transition, which truth be told has not gotten very far, is already hitting a wall.
Read more...The Destructively High Energy Cost of AI
More data on the energy cost of AI, which is projected soon to exceed that of several small countries.
Read more...Big Meat Unveils Battle Plans for COP28
The meat industry is coming under enough climate change pressure so as to have started messaging and astroturf campaigns.
Read more...Car Dealers Warn Biden Administration to Pump Brakes on EV Plans
Auto dealers throw cold water on EV uptake hopium.
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