The most recent US labor force analysis shows a four-year low — the unemployment rate is at 4.6%. Not since the end of the Covid-era pandemic has the job rate been so abysmal. But there’s a bright point in the employment equation: energy efficiency jobs continue to assist a flaccid … [continued]
A December Fox News story featured a coalition of conservative groups who were boasting about ten regulatory and fiscal “wins” under the Trump administration. The energy industry players insist they have “restored America’s path toward true energy dominance.” Project 2025 states unequivocally that “the aid industry claims that climate change … [continued]
Five years ago the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) warned that human pressures on the systems of land, soils, and fresh water were intensifying, just when they were being pushed to their productive limits. The majority of pressures were derived from agriculture, including the increase in … [continued]
Was the plant-based meat substitute industry wrong to recommend its products as a climate solution? That’s what Impossible Foods CEO Peter McGuinness insists, saying that the approach severely restricted the company’s potential customer base early on. The approach may have contributed to an inevitable pattern of steadily falling US faux … [continued]
Those plastic bottles that are so readily available at convenience stores, groceries, conferences, and sports venues are a real problem: they kill marine creatures. A recent study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences concludes that plastic ingestion has been documented in nearly 1,300 marine species, including every … [continued]
Do you live in a town that doesn’t have access to solar incentive programs? Perhaps a program like the Solar Marketplace Assistance Program Plus (Solar MAP+) might be a model for your community. It is a good fit for towns or cities that don’t have the tools, resources, or experience … [continued]
“I created Phenomenal Moments: Revealing the Hidden Science around Us as a gentle nudge,” says author Felice Frankel, “especially for the young, and just as importantly for their parents — to recognize that science isn’t separate from our lives. It’s everywhere.” Enlisting readers to “be the scientist” through vivid fine … [continued]
I’m sure the New York Times article over the weekend about e-bike injuries has caused a few arguments to erupt. Haven’t we heard of the many benefits of e-bikes — their energy efficiency, their eco-friendliness, the way they get people out of cars and exercising? Yes, those assets are not … [continued]
Solar and wind power have a lot going for them. They ease global warming stress and its climate consequences. They don’t cost as fossil fuels at utility scale, and they’re a lot less harmful to people’s health than fossil fuels. Of all of these reasons to favor solar and wind … [continued]
Bill Gates pictures himself as a technology and system innovator. In October, the billionaire philanthropist recontextualized climate action, global health, and development as mutually exclusive and in competition with each other in advance of the international climate summit, COP30. With his status as one of the original Silicon Valley tech … [continued]
