Picking up where we left off yesterday, the nations that were actually expected to meet this week’s INDC deadline all fall into the “developed” category. I use quotation marks to indicate the fuzzy nature of that concept. A more appropriate term might be “industrialized,” since the world’s concept of what’s developed and … [continued]
A thoughtful North Carolina nonprofit has devised a very effective and immediate way to display climate change on a local and personal level. The video below describes its program, The Climate Listening Project. The project is a new collaborative storytelling effort spearheaded by the Western North Carolina Alliance to connect conversations … [continued]
Environment America Research and Policy Center recently released Lighting the Way, a fascinating hard numbers–based take on the US solar energy boom, the top states that fostered it last year, and what the others are up to. The research organization finds that the top 10 solar energy states—Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, … [continued]
It’s called “urban biomass,” and it’s ours (spsmw.org). Hard to imagine a subject that would find The Wall Street Journal and Grist in line with each other’s thinking, but burning wood for energy has achieved it. Neither outlet seems to view the topic positively. Both have cited the scientific work … [continued]
A new report by research company Bloomberg New Energy Finance shows that China’s “Big Five” power utilities are heavily exposed to water supply disruptions given the huge quantities of water they use and their locations in climate affected portions of the country. We have covered the possible water shortages in … [continued]
The state of Washington has announced a plan in cooperation with the global power company TransAlta to shut down all of the coal boilers in the state – all two of them. Eliminating the use of coal power sounds easy enough for Washington, but even with only two boilers to deal with the transition out of coal will be
You can put a fork in a gigantic new coal fired power plant proposed for rural Sugard, Utah, because it’s done. Yesterday the Utah Supreme Court struck a major blow against the plant by ordering it to start back at square one in the pollution permit application process. [social_buttons] As … [continued]
In yet another indication that the days of king coal are numbered, another coal-fired power plant in the U.S. is converting to biomass. Michigan’s L’Anse Warden Electric Company purchased an existing coal, oil, and natural gas power plant and promptly made the switch in order to engage in some sustainable … [continued]
