Some call this a solution, while others call it pollution. It is certainly the latter. Waste-to-energy is detailed here as a transitional strategy for a world that wastes too much. In Drawdown, there are several solutions that we call regrets solutions, and this is one of them. A regrets solution has a positive impact on overall carbon emissions; however, the social and environmental costs are harmful and high.
“Unprecedented Crime” is an important book for many reasons, but most of all for driving home the point of the title, that the governments and fossil fuel corporations are guilty of major crimes for knowingly destroying our climate. And not simply major crimes, but “unprecedented” crimes, which will make the genocides and holocausts of the... Continue Reading →
crimes studied by the mueller investigation…
ENERGY | ENERGY STORAGE (UTILITIES) RANKING AND RESULTS BY 2050 #77 AN ENABLING TECHNOLOGY—COST AND SAVINGS ARE EMBEDDED IN RENEWABLE ENERGY About eleven thousand years ago, when we humans shifted from hunter-gatherer mode to permanent settlements and agriculture, we started learning about storage. We had no choice, really, because those first crops yielded temporary surpluses... Continue Reading →
energy – storage – utilities
another powerful strategy is legal action…
The fact that no emergency response to the entrenched failure of governments is a crime against humanity and indeed all of life. […] Given this availability of solutions (which are largely absent from the North American media), the political, media, and moral failures to act decisively have now become willful crimes against life itself. This conscious... Continue Reading →
ENERGY | GRID FLEXIBILITY RANKING AND RESULTS BY 2050 #77 AN ENABLING TECHNOLOGY—COST AND SAVINGS ARE EMBEDDED IN RENEWABLE ENERGY During John Muir’s first summer, exploring the Sierra Nevada, he wrote in his journal, “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.” For more... Continue Reading →
energy – grid flexibility
3 myths of climate change…
The three myths of climate change | Linda Mortsch | TEDxToronto Global warmingGlobal warming, also referred to as climate change, is the observed century-scale rise in the average temperature of the Earth’s climate system and its related effects. Multiple lines of scientific evidence show that the climate system is warming. Video!
Youth Climate Strike – March 15
The U.S. Youth Climate Strike's website includes a detailed list of the organizers' mission, demands, and solutions. Their mission is to get more world leaders to address issues regarding climate change, and they believe skipping school is the way to do that because "if the social order is disrupted by our refusal to attend school, then... Continue Reading →
act right now on climate change…
In this passionate call to action, 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg explains why, in August 2018, she walked out of school and organized a strike to raise awareness of global warming, protesting outside the Swedish parliament and grabbing the world's attention. "The climate crisis has already been solved. We already have all the facts and... Continue Reading →
Green News Report
Host: Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen | Hands down, one of the best sources to obtain Climate News plus podcasts and more. The Climate News are posted on Tuesdays, however we are hoping that eventually it will be more often. They are are awesome and should be hoisted up as a primary source of primary... Continue Reading →
I’m asking you to get informed …
If you like to worry about things—and most people do—you are living at a great time. Climate change is coming, and it is coming right at you. Regardless of where you are on Earth, you will live to see your life or the lives of your kids and their friends change due to the... Continue Reading →
moral collapse…
“Carbon emissions have now accumulated to the point where avoiding warming by 2 degrees Celsius is impossible. Even under optimistic assumptions about the speed with which countries might respond, it now seems likely that the world will warm by 4 degrees Celsius or more, which will transform the conditions of life on the planet and... Continue Reading →