Report: Going 100% Renewable Power Means a Lot of Dirty Mining
Looking at some of the non-CO2 costs of increasing renewable energy production and distribution.
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Greening Monetary Policy
Monetary policy favors carbon-intensive industries. Time to stop doing that.
Read more...How to Win: Lessons from the Zad
Members of the Zad engaged in a nearly decade long, successful commual effort to block the construction of an airport near Nantes. But what happens when you win?
Read more...EU Plastics Ban: “Doesn’t Go Far Enough”
Jerry-Lynn on TRNN!
Read more...Energy Equity: Bringing Solar Power to Low-Income Communities
How solar array projects enable low-income groups to save money and help the environment.
Read more...Plastic Watch: Water Bottle Alert!
Plastic water bottles foul European waters. Why? This is a problem that can and should be fixed. Less plastic in European rivers means less plastic in the world’s oceans.
Read more...Where Are All the Bugs Going and What Can I Do About It?
Insects are the waste management contractors of ecosystems.
Read more...Are You Biased Against Nuclear Power? Yup, Say Scientists
Nuclear power has a worse reputation than it deserves.
Read more...Gail Tverberg: The True Feasibility of Moving Away from Fossil Fuels
Why our societies will remain dependent on fossil fuels much longer than we’d like.
Read more...Right to Repair Initiatives Gain Support in US
Minnesota may soon be the first state to adopt right to repair legislation, and measures are pending in a total of twenty states. Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren recently endorsed a national right to repair for farm equipment.
Read more...Climate Research Must Change to Help Communities Plan for the Future
Climate scientist Robert Koop argues for national investment in universities analogous to that of long-standing cooperative extension programs but applied to scientific climate risk management.
Read more...Plastic Watch: 2.5 Trillion Dollar Annual Cost of Ocean Plastic Pollution
New study finds ocean plastic pollution costs $2.5 trillion dollars annually – and that estimate fails to account for direct and indirect impacts on human health, or the fisheries, transport, and tourism industries.
Read more...How American Recycling Is Changing Now that China Won’t Take It
The US recycling approach of using the rest of the world as it garbage barge has come to an end. What next?
Read more...More on Flood Control: The Missouri River, the Levees, and the Gavins Point and Spencer Dams
The policy options to solve or ameliorate flooding on the Missouri River are not obvious (at least to me).
Read more...A New Constitution for the UK Needs ‘Rights of Nature’ at Its Heart
Human rights are well established in constitutional and international law. But in the face of dangerous climate change and ecosystem collapse, do we need ‘rights of nature’?
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