What Is An Emergency?
We’re going to need quick wits, courage, incredibly hard work, and some real luck to put out this moronic inferno—but that’s the job of being a citizen in 2025.
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Solar farms can host up to three times as many birds as crop fields – new research
We have a golden opportunity for finding multiple functions for land: generating clean energy while restoring biodiversity at the same time.
Alexis Zeigler — Living Without Fossil Fuels: How Living Energy Farm Created a Comfortable Off-Grid Lifestyle
Today, Nate is joined by Alexis Zeigler, a founding member of the cooperative community Living Energy Farm, to take a peek into the Farm’s unique daily life and explore their innovative systems for using electricity and technology in ways that are far less consumptive than the average American.
Hands off…the future
The only good news I can give you is that we have the tools we need to slow down the rapid heating and give our civilizations a chance. Remarkable news came from Africa last week, where solar mini-grids are starting to roll out at scale, thanks to $30 billion in aid from the World Bank.
Incoherency Is the Weakness in Trump’s Armor – Strike There!
The widespread impact of Trump’s incoherent and often conflicting policies is proving as harmful to much of his base as it is to the “opposition.” As unsettling as his policies are, they offer the climate communities an opportunity to take their message directly to Republican voters.
Net Zero and Other Delusions: What Can’t, Won’t and Might Happen
In this Frankly, Nate explores the limitations of using our imaginations to shape our understanding of what’s possible through the use of three categories: what can’t happen, what won’t happen, and what might happen.
Abandon All Hope: Dire Times for Europe
The meeting between Trump and Putin to discuss the end of the war in Ukraine (without the participation of Ukraine, let alone the EU) has made it clear that we are entering a new phase in the decline of our civilization, that we are already in the first stages of the final game of the energy descent.
Energy bills and debt are rising yet again – here are three things that would help vulnerable households
Incomes are failing to keep pace with rising energy prices and existing schemes to help those on low incomes fall well short. This will push more people into hardship. The UK government must put the needs of the most vulnerable first.
The Growing Inequality Among Countries and the Worsening Climate Crisis
The inequality of industrialization got us into this crisis, and addressing that inequality is the only way out.
Some First Nations Ready ‘To Rise’ If Poilievre Lifts BC Oil Tanker Ban
A DeSmog dispatch from Prince Rupert, which could be ground zero for Canada’s next big oil export fight.
Tesla, Big Oil have a weakness in common
Chinese automaker BYD (their slogan, at least in English, is ‘Build Your Dreams”) announced on Tuesday that its new cars—available in April for $30,000 if you’re in a place where you can buy one—will recharge in five minutes. Or, roughly, the time it takes to fill your tank with gasoline.
Revoking EPA’s endangerment finding – the keystone of US climate policies – won’t be simple and could have unintended consequences
Most of the United States’ major climate regulations are underpinned by one important document: It’s called the endangerment finding, and it concludes that greenhouse gas emissions are a threat to human health and welfare.