The University of Glasgow in Scotland has taken a page from Stanford and other US colleges. It has become the first EU academic institution to divest fossil fuel holdings. On Wednesday, the university court voted to divest $29 million (£18 million) of investments in the fossil fuel industry and freeze new investments across … [continued]
Almost everyone in the media has taken a stab at summarizing, if not snap-judging, the results of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s one-day UN climate summit last week. The meeting had a real name, but Robert N. Stavins in his New York Times runup to the conference was the only writer I … [continued]
By Stacy Clark House by house, street by street, homeowners and businesses are increasingly divesting from conventional electrical power providers and going solar. “About 200,000 US homes and businesses added rooftop solar in the past two years alone—about 3 gigawatts (GW) of power and enough to replace four or five … [continued]
Other than our own stories, here’s some top cleantech and climate change news of the past few days: Clean Power Solar Power Bonnaroo Unveils First Permanent Festival Solar Array First Solar Begins Construction of Campo Verde Solar Project Arizona’s Black Mountain Solar Project Reaches Completion Financing Complete for Largest … [continued]
Here’s some more clean energy, climate change, and policy news from the past couple weeks: Clean Energy (In General) & Climate Change Policy Iowa Scientists Warn of Need for Climate Change Action: “A group of scientists in the top U.S. grain-growing state of Iowa said on Monday that this … [continued]
Climate advocacy group 350.org is planning nearly 1,000 events in over 100 countries on May 5th to help people “connect the dots” between extreme weather and climate change on the first ever Climate Impacts Day.
It appears to have been getting windier over the past two decades, according to a Swinburne University of Technology team led by Ian Young whose research appeared Friday in the journal Science. Young has authored more than 100 papers. National Geographic reports that the analysis, the first to look at … [continued]
If the Republican party does succeed in filibustering landmark climate legislation that Majority Leader Senator Reid brings to a vote this month, we will end the world as we have known it. This Earth will become what Bill McKibben calls Eaarth, a unknown new planet, with temperature and other changes … [continued]
Today 31 environmental groups including the Sierra Club, the NRDC and the League of Conservation Voters sent a strongly worded letter to the Senate to get the Kerry/Graham/Lieberman climate bill moving again. [social_buttons] The only holdout organizations were Greenpeace and Bill McKibben’s 350.org, not because they don’t want climate legislation. … [continued]
It seems like science fiction. It seems impossible that we would destroy our planet and our future, but, we did. We have no idea how bad the effects of our brief exploitation of fossil fuel will be, over the next centuries and millennia. [social_buttons] Since it is going to be … [continued]
