Andreas Goldthau, Nature (Science Journal) 07 June 2017 Andreas Goldthau calls for the world’s 20 largest economies to take the helm in managing the transition from fossil fuels while keeping the global economy stable. Pawel Kopczynski/Reuters Wind energy and other renewables will replace oil, gas and coal as countries phase out fossil fuels to meet their climate-change commitments. The world’s energy …
Public on hook for decommissioning, private companies all the profits, after fossil fuel extraction
UK taxpayers face multi-billion burden for dismantling of North Sea rigs Oil and Gas Authority predicts overall bill of £60bn and says challenge is to save industry and the taxpayer money and achieve safe decommissioning By Adam Vaughan, The Guardian, 20 June 2017 British taxpayers face paying billions of pounds more than previously expected for dismantling the North Sea’s oil …
Workhorse hybrid pick-up truck in high demand with fleets due to reliability and cost
By Steve Hanley, Originally published on Gas2, June 2017 With all the hype and hysteria about Tesla in the news lately, it’s easy to lose sight of some of the other companies that are making progress building more sustainable vehicles that will help lower carbon emissions from the transportation sector. Cars are important, but trucks spew out more carbon emissions …
South-South innovation + Mariana Mazzucato’s TED talk on government as investor, risk-taker, and innovator
Government Innovation, 7 July 2017 Bangladesh wants to lead South-South government innovation Anir Chowdhury, innovation advisor to the PM of Bangladesh, sets out his vision. 6 July 2017 It was not too long ago when Bangladesh, a South Asian country with a population over 160 million, was ridiculed on the world stage. However, that is now history as Bangladesh has made …
Six P’s: Michael Shuman’s pointers to a prosperous, local economy
Sustainability requires that every community meet the needs of all its members (including plants and animals), present and future, without compromising the needs of other communities meeting the needs of their members, present and future. — Michael Shuman Is neighborhood economics at a tipping point? Consciousness certainly seems to be getting there. This is a skeletal summary of some key points, plus a few …
Easy energy use cuts of 29% available for US commercial and government buildings
June 26th, 2017 by Joshua S Hill A new report by the US Energy Department’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has concluded that widespread use of building controls across the country could cut energy consumption by an average of 29%, or the equivalent electricity used by 12 to 15 million Americans. US Energy Department’s (DOE) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) investigated …
Sacrificing black lives for the American lie
By Ibram Kendi, NYTimes, 25 June 2017 Why are police officers rarely charged for taking black lives, and when they are, why do juries rarely convict? Many Americans asked this question when a Minnesota jury decided that Philando Castile was responsible for his own death and that the officer who shot him, Jeronimo Yanez, did nothing wrong. Many Americans asked …
Grading building performance and getting such information to the public, buyers and renters
A simple tweak to an existing law could help the city reach its goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050 and create a template for the rest of the country to follow. Local Law 84, enacted in 2009, obligates the city’s largest buildings to report how much energy they consume each year. Participating buildings then receive …
How P2P politics can change the world, one city at a time
By Ann Marie Utratel Commons Transition, 5 June 2017, Commons in the Time of Monsters Promotion of real, needs-oriented entrepreneurship, bolstered by explicit recognition and support of bottom-up productive infrastructures, such as Open Coops, mesh wireless networks or community renewables through public-Commons partnerships. It would allow commoners to repurpose or take over unused or underutilised public buildings for social ends …
Fossil fuel industry seeks to withdraw from Our Children’s Trust case, avoid discovery
“Trial of the century” By Chelsea Harvey, December 1, 2016, Washington Post The U.S. Capitol Building stands past the natural-gas-and-coal-fueled Capitol Power Plant, which provides heating and cooling to Capitol Hill facilities, including House and Senate office buildings. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg) A few weeks ago, a federal judge in Oregon made headlines when she ruled that a groundbreaking climate lawsuit will proceed to …
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