Just How Hard Is It To Cut US Greenhouse Gases?
The US is not surprisingly, going to miss 2020 greenhouse gas targets by a big margin. What will policymakers do?
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Michael Hoexter: A Pocket Handbook of Soft Climate Denial
More on soft climate denial: acknowledging that climate change is a serious threat but being unwilling to take sufficient steps to combat it.
Read more...We’re Past the Point of No Return for Climate Change
On why the case for combatting climate change is more urgent than ever, and what can be done about it.
Read more...7 Signs That China Is Serious About Combating Climate Change
China has plenty of reason to curb its emissions and has shown that it is serious about doing it.
Read more...A Review of David Fleming’s Lean Logic (and Resilience)
Resilience in complex systems and slack systems.
Read more...‘A Five-Alarm Threat to Our Food Supply’: Experts Describe Bayer-Monsanto Merger
Whether or not regulators approve the Bayer-Monsanto merger, these companies will continue their rampage against nature.
Read more...The New Extreme Reality of Floods
Floods are an under-recognized economic and political risk….
Read more...Dakota Access Pipeline: The Wrong Side of a Long, Long History of Resource Extraction
On the bogus economic case for the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Read more...Obama Again Sounds Climate Change Alarm But Continues To Support Fossil Fuel Industry
Obama talks the climate change talk, but his policies continue to support increased US fossil fuel production, especially via fracking.
Read more...Dakota Pipeline Will Proceed As Feds Undertake Smoke and Mirrors Policy Reconsideration
Following a federal court decision to deny an injunction blocking the Dakota Access pipeline, three federal agencies impose a limited, “voluntary” temporary halt on construction of one small section.
Read more...BLM Moves Onshore Oil and Gas Lease Auctions Online To Stymie ‘Keep It In The Ground’ Protests
Jerri-Lynn here. This short post highlights an important problem that we’ve seen arise over and over again with the administration which pledged to be the most transparent ever: the disconnect between public rhetoric and behind-the-scenes practice. The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) presides over the allocation of oil and gas […]
Read more...Major Insurers to G20 Nations: Stop Wasting Time, Phase-Out Fossil Fuel Subsidies by 2020
Insurers and finance pressure governments to end $444 billion in fossil fuel subsidies.
Read more...Emergy (with an “m”) and Environmental Accounting for Maine’s Landfill
Policy implementing the Maine Solid Waste hierarchy should be justified using emergy as the unit of account, and not dollars.
Read more...Michael Hoexter: Democratic Party Platform 7/1/16 Draft Would Lock In Catastrophic Climate Change
Why the Democratic party plans for taking on climate change are grossly inadequate.
Read more...5 Eco-Friendly Social Housing Projects
Demonstrating that public housing can be attractive and environmentally responsible.
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