Waste Not, Want Not
Schools waste $5 million a day in uneaten food. Here’s how Oakland is reinventing the cafeteria.
Read more...Category Archives: Environment
Breaking Down What Climate Change Will Do, Region by Region
A brief recap of the newly-released Federal report on climate change.
Read more...Betting on BECCS: Will Bio-Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage Help the Climate?
BECCS has big problems with its inputs and its outputs. Perhaps other solution to global warming should be prioritized.
Read more...How Economists Impede Addressing Climate Change
Earth to economists: you are a big part of the climate change problem.
Read more...White House Doubles Down On Coal Despite New Climate Report
Yet more official climate change denialism…
Read more...Debunking One “Global Cooling” Argument
A quick kneecapping of some deliberate misconstruction on the global warming front.
Read more...The Fracking Industry’s Wastewater Injection Well Problem
The fracking industry has a wastewater disposal problem and finds itself in a pick your poison situation, with no good alternatives. Americans will continue to bear the environmental costs of the nationwide fracking experiment.
Read more...High Stakes, Entrenched Interests And The Trump Rollback Of Environmental Regulations
Trump’s “progress” in gutting environmental protections.
Read more...Jackpot? A Round-Up of This Season’s California Wildfires (So Far)
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Last week, there were three (major) California wildfires in the news: The Camp Fire, which destroyed the town of Paradise in Northern California, and the Hill and Woolsey fires in Southern California, which are still burning, not entirely contained. Here is a map: And here is a shot of the […]
Read more...Did Fossil Fuel Firms Completely Dominate Climate Change Issues on the 2018 Ballot?
A round-up of mid-term results pertaining to climate change.
Read more...The Rapid Acceleration Towards Peak Oil Demand
A rare bit of positive news on the global warming front: oil demand topped out in developed economies and emerging economies are increasingly fighting both internal combustion engines and single use plastics.
Read more...US Copyright Office Advances Right to Repair: Victory for Consumers for Now
US Copyright Office issues a rule that allows a right to repair for smartphones, home appliances, home systems, and motorized land vehicles – including tractors. The rule is imperfect and the Empire will certainly strike back as Congress explores further necessary measures.
Read more...Why Plans to Turn America’s Rust Belt into a New Plastics Belt Are Bad News for the Climate
This important post discusses the link between climate change and increased plastics production via the creation of a Plastics Belt in the former Rust Belt, using natural gas derived from fracking.
Read more...Plastic Watch: Five Flaws in the EU’s Single-Use Plastics Plan
Plastic Watch: The European Parliament recently approved a plan that will ban outright certain single-use plastics. Alas, these measures fall far short of what’s necessary, both in timing and scope, to address the burgeoning plastic crisis. And they would only apply to the EU.
Read more...Estimating the Impact of Climate Change Costs on Growth: Is Degrowth Already Here?
Some back of the envelope estimates show that the economic cost of climate change is already cutting into growth in a big way….and it will only get much worse.
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