Energy

The Tree | – – Air pollution is driving a global public health crisis. It is responsible for one in nine deaths worldwide, and touches everyone given 92% of the human race live in places that do not meet World Health Organisation guidelines. As it is also driving a climate crisis – with increasingly heavy […]

Climate Change

Inconvenient Sequel: 9 Ways To Make Your Home Greener (TYT Video)

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Brett Erlich | (The Young Turks Video Report) | – – “Use your home to act on climate. Download our guide to learn easy changes that will lower your carbon footprint and save money. http://inconvenientsequel.com/action TYT is partnering with Participant Media to help solve the climate crisis. Make sure you check out our series: 10 […]

Climate Change

The Message on Climate must be ‘Yes We Can,’ not Apocalypse Now’

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By Jon Christensen | (The Conversation) | – – There’s been no shortage of pessimistic news on climate change lately. A group of climate scientists and policy experts recently declared that we have just three years left to dramatically turn around carbon emissions, or else. Meanwhile a widely circulated New York magazine article detailed some […]

Latin America

Did Saudi ‘Cheap Oil’ Policy throw Venezuela into Crisis?

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Bulent Gökay | (The Conversation) | – – Venezuela is sinking ever deeper into a political and economic calamity. Inflation is above 700% and GDP is more than a third below 2013 levels. The country with the world’s largest proven oil reserves is now the world’s most indebted country – no other nation has a […]

Climate Change

As Trump leaves Paris Accord, Wind jobs are fastest growing in US next Decade

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – CBS News reports that jobs in the wind energy field will grow 108 percent in the next 7 years. Working on wind turbines, in short, is the fastest-growing job sector in the United States now and in the foreseeable future. One of the characteristics of wind […]

Solar Energy

Desert solar project could power 5 million EU homes

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By Sam Morgan | EURACTIV.com . | – – A consortium of clean energy developers has applied for permission to build a gigantic solar power plant on the edge of the Sahara desert, which will be linked to Europe by a number of undersea cables and could power over 5 million homes. TuNur’s planned project […]

Solar Energy

Solar now most popular form of new electricity generation worldwide

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By Andrew Blaker | (The Conversation) | – – Solar has become the world’s favourite new type of electricity generation, according to global data showing that more solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity is being installed than any other generation technology. Worldwide, some 73 gigawatts of net new solar PV capacity was installed in 2016. Wind energy […]

Acidification of Oceans

Of all things Trump did to us, Vast new toxic CO2 Emissions are the Worst

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By Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – Who says President Trump doesn’t have a coherent foreign policy? Pundits and critics across the political spectrum have chided him for failing to articulate and implement a clear international agenda. Look closely at his overseas endeavors, though, and one all-too-consistent pattern emerges: Donald Trump […]

Environmentalism

On one day in May, Italy got 87% of its Electricity from Renewables

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – * On one day in May, Italy met 87% of its electricity production needs from renewables. This statistic was a fluke, since ordinarily renewables supply less than a fifth of Italy’s electricity. Still, that on especially bright and windy days, the renewables can perform at this […]