Scientists Propose “Carbon Law” Based On Computing’s “Moore’s Law” , for example, doubling renewable energy capacity every 5 to 7 years. By Joshua Hill, in Clean Technica, 28 March 2017 An international team of researchers writing in the journal Science have proposed a solution for encouraging the global economy to transition to a low-carbon economy, a “carbon law” which works much the same …
Seeing Wetiko
Excerpt from Seeing Wetiko. Also see: Three ways mass poverty has been created, starting with closing off the commons We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, and the winding streams with tangled growth as “wild.” Only to the White man was nature a “wilderness” and only to him was the land infested by “wild” animals …
Health and wellbeing, economy and society, infrastructure and ecosystems, affordability of transport, amount of green space add up to resilience in 156 questions
By Nick Van Mead, Originally posted in The Guardian The Rockefeller Foundation launched the City Resilience Index (CRI) today, by engineering consultancy Arup. For example, “Concepción had done all the things you’d expect an earthquake-prone city to do in terms of building codes and emergency management, but the weakness that emerged [from the CRI assessment] was that their telecommunications systems were all …
Where the jobs are declining (fossil fuels) and increasing (renewables). Also, new solar farm with nearly 300 Tesla Powerpack batteries powers Kauai at night
9 Mar 2017, Climate Nexus Tesla unveiled a new 13MW solar farm on the Hawaiian island of Kauai Wednesday, bringing the state closer to its ambitious goal of sourcing 100 percent renewables by 2045. The farm includes nearly 300 Tesla Powerpack batteries, which provide 52 MWh of capacity and will allow the farm to sell stored power during the evening. The …
San Francisco plans to require that all new buildings and parking be ‘100% electric vehicle ready’
By Fred Lambert, 1 March 2017, Electrek, San Francisco plans to require that all new buildings and parking be ‘100% electric vehicle ready’ The city of San Francisco has not been shy to use its building codes to try to accelerate the deployment of sustainable energy. Last year, it required new buildings to have solar panels installed on the roof and this …
As materials have gotten lighter, cheaper and more flexible, photovoltaic cells are showing up in many places
Nexus Media, by Owen Agnew Solar power used to mean large, heavy panels mounted on a roof or spread across a field. But the sun falls on everyone—and everything—and as materials have gotten lighter, cheaper and more flexible, photovoltaic cells are showing up in the most unlikely of places. In bustling New York City, you can buy a sandwich at …
Breathe less … or ban cars: cities have radically different responses to pollution
By Beth Gardiner, 15 December 2016 in The Guardian When a thick cloud of air pollution settled in over London last week, experts warned those with health problems to avoid strenuous exercise. The advice to Londoners essentially boiled down to this: breathe less. Meanwhile, as Paris suffered a similar pollution episode – its worst in a decade – officials swung into …
Moapa Southern Paiute Solar Project, first solar farm on tribal land, is now online
Originally published on Solar Love and in the Santa Fe New Mexican, 22 March 2017 On March 16th, the first solar farm on tribal land in the US was activated. The 250 megawatt Moapa Southern Paiute Solar Project, located on the 112 square mile Moapa River Indian Reservation about 30 miles north of Las Vegas, contains more than 3.2 million solar panels covering …
Steps toward bikes not cars
By Nick Van Mead 11 August 2016, originally posted at The Guardian Rush-hour bike jams, speeding scooters, ignorant tourists … Amsterdam may be the world’s busiest cycling capital but it is no two-wheeled paradise. ‘Bicycle mayor’ Anna Luten is working to smooth conflict and export the lessons learned. Anna Luten – the world’s first ‘bicycle mayor’. Photograph: Nick Van Mead …
50 state Project Sunroof: 79% of all rooftops in the US have enough unshaded area for solar panels
By Joshua Hill, 10 March 2017 on Clean Technica Google’s has announced that its revolutionary Project Sunroof tool is now able to provide a reliable estimate of how much sunlight a given rooftop might receive in all 50 US states, up from 42 states nearly a year ago. The last we heard from Project Sunroof, it was revealed that it had been …