Category Archives: Environment

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Why Burning of Fast Fashion Clothes to Fuel Power Plants is Troubling

Debunks recent news accounts touting fueling power plants with defective fast fashion rather than fossil fuels. Much more is required.

Bitcoin -> Energy Use -> Pollution

Bitcoin uses a computation system to prevent fraud, but computation takes energy, which damages the environment, all at an increasing rate.

Gaius Publius: The Building Is Burning and All the World’s Babies Are In It — Using Force to Fight Climate Change

It’s going to take force to fight climate change and there’s little time to waste. Asking and negotiating won’t do the job.

Tesla’s “Semi” Truck: Perspectives from the Cab and the Truck Stop and the Dock

Looking at the Tesla Semi from the driver’s perspective.

Gaius Publius: In Surprise Move, Norway’s $1 Trillion Sovereign Wealth Fund May Divest From Fossil Fuels

Would a Norway sovereign wealth fund divestiture from fossil fuels be a tipping point among investors?

Gaius Publius: New Study – “Natural Gas” Has No Climate Benefit, Will Make Things Worse

Debunking the myth that natural gas will reduce carbon emissions.

Scientists: Population Growth “Primary Driver Behind Ecological and Societal Threats”

A bit late in the game, experts are finally depicting population growth as the driver of threats like climate change.

Puerto Rico Update: Roads, Power, Water, and Money

Updating on Puerto Rico, which will require at least $23 billion in aid, according to PROMESA’s Financial Oversight and Management Board

The Shipping Industry Needs to Deliver Cleaner Cargo Ships, or We’re All Sunk

Delivering on demand for lower-emissions vessels could be the industry’s most arduous journey of all.

That’s Not MY Greenhouse Gas!

Climate pacts like the Paris Accord do little because they focus on in-country greenhouse gas emissions, not ones based on consumption.

Congress Works with Big Oil on Letter Suggesting Anti-Pipeline Activists Face Terrorism Charges

The latest chapter in the efforts to treat activists as criminals.

An Environmental and Public Health Disaster Awaits—If USDA Gives Organic Label to Hydroponics

A big cause for pause about a planned change in what the USDA considers “organic” to mean.

How Many Hurricanes Must It Take?

Some relatively low-cost measures can reduce the toll of hurricanes….but do they go far enough?

The Situation in Puerto Rico: The Roads

Efforts to repair the road system in Puerto Rico seem grossly incommensurate to the scope and degree of the damage.

Fossil Fuel Misinformation Helps Quash Community Effort to Ban Fracking in Youngstown, Ohio

Fossil fuel industry promotes the idea that elections are not a good use of public funds.