Why “Green Growth” Is an Illusion
Wishful thinking and tinkering like “green growth” won’t cut it. Nothing short of a mass mobilization for deep de-carbonization across the global economy can avert the looming climate catastrophe.
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Michael Olenick: A Quick Look at the Gilets Jaunes Protests. Update: They Won!
An overview of the gilets jaunes movement.
Read more...Protecting Coral Reefs: Sustainable Scuba Diving Practices
PADI, the world’s largest scuba diving training and certification group, and British conservation charity Reef-World Foundation, have joined forces to support the Green Fins scheme, to mitigate the impact of recreational diving on already-stressed coral reefs.
Read more...Decades of Denial and Stalling Have Created a Climate Crunch
Two-week UN climate change summit kicks off in Poland, to flesh out details of the 2015 Paris Accord. Politicians have dithered about what action to take, in part diverted by the disinformation spread by fossil fuel companies.
Read more...Fast Fashion: Commons Committee Questions Business Model
House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee conducts hearing on waste in the fashion industry – particularly, ‘fast fashion’.
Read more...Waste Not, Want Not
Schools waste $5 million a day in uneaten food. Here’s how Oakland is reinventing the cafeteria.
Read more...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.
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