A long road is ahead for humanity in adjusting to our new circumstances but we must now act at times before we are comfortable doing so. Such is the nature of our climate emergency.
Read more...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...Policy implementing the Maine Solid Waste hierarchy should be justified using emergy as the unit of account, and not dollars.
Read more...Why the Democratic party plans for taking on climate change are grossly inadequate.
Read more...A debate on sustainable growth versus degrowth.
Read more...How Portland is working to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 80% and reduce its environmental load on other fronts.
Read more...Clinton’s fracking reversal will alienate the energy industry without appeasing environmentalists, since fracking produces methane and earthquakes.
Read more...If you take a hard look at Clinton’s neocon policies, it’s far from obvious that she’s a less dangerous Presidential pick than Trump.
Read more...This Real News Network segment marshals data to make a provocative argument: there are more ways to decouple carbon emissions and GDP growth than most observers believe.
Read more...Why 2017 could be an event horizon as far as climate change is concerned.
Read more...Updated climate models indicate that temperatures and storms will be getting much worse in the next 10-20 years.
Read more...The big obstacle to reducing carbon emissions isn’t economic costs, but inertia and the impact on powerfully placed special interests.
Read more...TransCanada has filed a $15 billion lawsuit against the US under NAFTA or scuttling its cross-border pipeline. The TPP gives foreign investors even stronger rights.
Read more...Utilities, with regulatory backing, are working hard to turn homeowner investments in solar into economic white elephants.
Read more...Solar roads sound too “gee whiz” to work. But it would be terrific if they did.
Read more...