How long can we continue to assume that the biosphere is external to the human economy? What’s needed to reframe the natural world in relation to the many other assets we hold in our portfolios?
Louisiana has been losing its wetlands due to erosion, climate change, and other factors for 80 years now and there is one project that could help not only save our wetlands but build new ones. The project is called the Mid-Barataria Sediment Division. The Army Corps of Engineers has released … [continued]
Article courtesy of Transport & Environment. By Eoin Bannon Commission to ensure that long-haul flights are included in the EU’s SAFs mandate Call for obligation of the mandate to be placed on the fuel supplier, to ensure equal treatment Support for the development of zero-emission technologies, such as hydrogen or … [continued]
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy has shared that it has three funding opportunities for sustainable transportation technologies coming this spring. These funding opportunities are looking for innovative research, development, demonstration, and deployment (RDD&D) in the pursuit of technologies that will help reduce … [continued]
Courtesy of Rocky Mountain Institute. By Mark Dyson, Lauren Shwisberg, & Charles Teplin The 2020s are poised to be transformative for the US power system. 2019 capped a decade characterized by the decline of coal and the rise of natural gas and renewables, reducing emissions and dramatically reshaping the generation mix … [continued]
In Part 1, I covered some of the advantages Starbase will have along with the things that need to be baked into the city’s operations and culture from the beginning. In this article, I’m going to get more specific on some of the risks the city will face and some … [continued]
Courtesy of Union Of Concerned Scientists. By Joseph Daniel When the polar vortex came to Texas, demand for electricity increased so that people could stay warm, while the electricity supply collapsed. This mismatch caused widespread and long-lasting power outages. It also caused wholesale prices to skyrocket, increasing 100’s of times above … [continued]
Courtesy of Environmental Defense Fund (edf.org) Air pollution standards that ensure all new heavy-duty trucks and buses sold for urban and community use are zero-emitting by 2035, and all such vehicles sold are zero-emission by 2040, would have substantial benefits, according to a new report by Environmental Defense Fund. Those standards would save … [continued]
One of the ways to slow the advance of climate change is to reduce your personal carbon usage. While we can’t efficiency our way to climate neutrality, we can buy ourselves time by slowing the rate of carbon emissions and conservation, as Negawatts are often the cheapest form of clean … [continued]
By Matthew Fulkerson, just a former physicist turned applied mathematician. Previously, we verified a solution to a simple differential equation for the concentration of methane in the atmosphere under a constant emissions scenario. In the document “Differential Equations for the Concentration of Methane in the Atmosphere,” we go through this case, … [continued]
