We Don't Have Time and Terraformation are proud to present episode 4 of Restoration Conversations, a series about nature's role in fighting the climate crisis. The series will explore topics such as nature-based solutions, biodiverse carbon, seed banks, and more! In this episode, we focus on the financial aspects of nature restoration. How expensive are... Continue Reading →
As stars align for America’s rapid transition to a clean economy, slow electric transmission project permitting is gumming up the gears. The vast majority of newly-installed and planned energy projects in the U.S. consist of clean energy – solar and wind farms, often paired with battery storage - even before the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) expanded the... Continue Reading →
Permitting: America’s next big climate conundrum
How Donor Countries Cook Their Books and Let Down the Developing World .As the world enters a new era of great-power competition, the United States and other high-income Western countries insist that they offer a more honest, open partnership with developing countries than do their rivals—especially China. They argue that freedom and democracy are the... Continue Reading →
The Unkept Promises of Western Aid
From the Bank of England to the People’s Bank of China, monetary authorities of the world’s largest economies are gauging how climate change could rock the financial system. Though long committed to being “market neutral,” some are even starting to push greener investments. Climate change is rattling the world’s central bankers. With unprecedented heat and... Continue Reading →
As Disasters Mount, Central Banks Gird Against Threat of Climate Change
New research suggests social transformations that prompt “degrowth” could cut humanity’s climate footprint in time to meet the Paris climate agreement target. Existing plans to limit global warming rely too much on “increasingly unrealistic assumptions” that societies will be able to remove huge amounts of carbon from the atmosphere while simultaneously maintaining incessant economic growth... Continue Reading →
Is the Controlled Shrinking of Economies a Better Bet to Slow Climate Change Than Unproven Technologies?
life’s greatest mysteries…
“One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world.” - Proverb quotes (Downloaded from Thinkexist)
reminder of nothing…
"The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied... but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy... Continue Reading →
propaganda is psychological…
“The current state of the news media is partially to blame for the public’s general lack of information vital for responsible citizenship in a democracy. The news media has become an aspect of show business, offering merely infotainment. It has evolved into an entity that tends to function as a public relations agency for wealthy... Continue Reading →
oligarchy spares no pains…
“The American oligarchy spares no pains in promoting the belief that it does not exist, but the success of its disappearing act depends on equally strenuous efforts on the part of an American public anxious to believe in egalitarian fictions and unwilling to see what is hidden in plain sight.” — Michael Lind, To Have... Continue Reading →
empowerment & inner transformation... 