When Big Green Meets Big Money: The Nature Conservancy Caught Greenwashing Corporate Pollution
Green organizations are not created equal. Naming some of the leading greenwashers, starting with the Nature Conservancy.
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Major Parties’ Climate Programs Are Miles Apart
As high as the stakes are, the struggle between the Dems and the GOP over climate change feels too much like intramural sport.
Read more...The Ugly Truth About Renewable Power
Questions about how to make intermittent renewable energy production work for users conditioned to always-here power.
Read more...China Has a Grand Carbon Neutrality Target But Where Is the Plan?
China’s new long-term targets, to reach peak emissions before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060, are yet to be matched with a consistent short-term action plan.
Read more...Competition Heats Up in the Melting Arctic, and the US Isn’t Prepared to Counter Russia
Shocker! Russia is end-running the US in the Arctic, even though Sarah Palin has been keeping an eye out. Where have the arm merchants been?
Read more...Another False Start in Africa Sold with Gates Foundation Green Revolution Myths
The Gates-Foundation-promoted Green Revolution has proven harmful and also crowded out safer and effective ecological agriculture projects
Read more...Take the Train: France Moves to Ban Short-Haul Domestic Flights
In a bid to lower carbon consumption, France takes first step tpwards banning short-haul flights where rail alternatives exist.
Read more...Experts Lay Out Their Case Against Carbon Pricing
Climate change policy advocates have turned against market approcaches like carbon offsets, which have clearly failed. But what next?
Read more...Lessons from the First New Deal for the Next One
Whether it is called “Build Back Better” or a Green New Deal, it is imperative to reject the false dichotomy of “jobs against climate.”
Read more...Welcome to the Wonderful World of Tardigrades (Our World)
Cute, and Apocalypse-ready?
Read more...Italy Bans Cruise Ships from Entering Venice’s Historic Center
Environmentalists take a victory lap, but much more must be done to ensure the survival of Venice, especially with sea levels rising.
Read more...Life in a Remote Alaskan Community on the Front Line of Climate Change
Whittier, Alaska, copes with a pandemic and climate change, and confronts the daunting prospects of a Prince Williams Sound tsunami.
Read more...Coal Is In Terminal Decline, But China’s Consumption Is Climbing
Sadly, King Coal will be with us for a very long time.
Read more...Rising Temperatures, Melting Ratings
Taking a stab at how global warming will affect bond ratings in the intermediate and long term.
Read more...Bitcoin, Easter Island-ism, and the Cowardice of Green New Dealers
A pox on hypocritical environmentalists who are nowhere to be found in demanding a stop to pointless, energy profligate Bitcoin.
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