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Why do Eco-Documentaries Matter? The Transatlantic Non-Debate on Climate Change
In this climax of crises, the middle class is not the only one to have considerably suffered; the environment has been the other loser. Social policies and the welfare state have been slashed across...
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To Frack or Not to Frack?
Why Not Frack? is the title of an article in a recent issue of the “NY Review of Books.” One of the best environmental journalists we’ve got, Bill McKibben, is the author. McKibben, of course, is...
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One Small Step for a Man
Okay, the U.S. may have been the first to the moon, but we have not been the first to regulate greenhouse gases. However, we’re getting there. California has been advancing its cap-and-trade regime...
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Nordhaus and McKibben – Following Up
I wanted to note some follow-up discussion to material that I have flagged here recently at the blog. The first was my post On the Denialists from March 2nd. The NY Review of Books has printed a...
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100% Renewables (for Germany by 2050)
I had the opportunity to go to a real stimulating talk the other day. Jochen Flasbarth, the President of the Federal Environment Agency of Germany, had just been to the big do at the NY Times, the...
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Smart Grid Video
Here’s just a quick hitter, bringing you a snappy, very well-informed, entertaining smart grid video from Accenture, the global consultancy.
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Getting a Charge out of Driving
The inherent gross inefficiency of the internal combustion engine surpasses even that of conventional thermal power plants. About 5% of the energy in the fuel actually moves a typical automobile....
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The Climate of Opinion
A study, Extreme Weather, Climate & Preparedness in the American Mind, just out from the excellent Yale Project on Climate Change Communication and its partner, the George Mason University Center...
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Connect the Dots
I wrote the other day about how people are increasingly perceiving the connection between extreme weather and climate change. They are, in the words of the very good folks at 350.org, “connecting the...
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The Melting Cryosphere
Here’s a look at how the Arctic has been melting. (Click on the image to go to NASA for a full explanation of what you’re seeing here.) What we’re seeing all over the world is an accelerating rate of...
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Did You Connect the Dots?
The 350.org folks and all their thousands of friends all over the world had a big event on May 5. Here’s the video:
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The Smart Money
I went to a very interesting presentation a couple of weeks ago: The good folks at the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes and their partners at SAM, a Zurich-based group focused on sustainability...
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Coal Losing Steam
It is abundantly clear that if we are going to conquer our climate change demons, then we’ve got to radically reduce the burning of coal on our splendid but increasingly stressed planet. Carbon...
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Round 18: Climate Talks Start in Doha
Photo: AP/Osama Faisal, File The United Nations climate change negotiations, or the long form: the 18th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on...
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Will Iskandar Malaysia prove to be an eco-city model?
Photo: IskandarMalaysia.com.my As COP 18 in Doha seems to have failed (as of writing) to reach a consensus on how to further climate change action for the future, Malaysia proves to be one developing...
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President Obama Decides Time is Right for Climate Change Plan
Photo: Reuters As immigration legislation is prodded through the U.S. Senate then likely to collect mothballs in the U.S. House of Representatives, and major Supreme Court decisions are announced, the...
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Climate Change Hijacks National Security
Haiyan-Relief (Photo by DVIDSHUB Creative-Commons Why the Slow Moving Emergency is Resetting the U.S. National Security Conversation Has climate destabilization already hijacked the national security...
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Europe Debates its Future Climate Targets
Photo: European Commission The countries of the European Union tend to be viewed as the main advocates at the national level for developing a more comprehensive and binding global plan to tackle...
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