Electrifying buildings and cars can rein in electric rates
Electricity prices stand to rise in California because of wildfire costs—but converting more of the state’s buildings and vehicles to electricity generated from low-cost renewable…
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Why are climate-conscious cities often the least affordable?
Cities can do a lot to stop climate change. They can fill their streets with electric buses, pass strict efficiency rules for its buildings, and…
Change before we have to
This time it is not business as usual. Empty streets, no people, no cars, clear blue skies, producing less, consuming less, reinventing habits, schedule and…
Northern lights – send us your CO2
In March, a consortium of oil giants Equinor, Shell, and Total finished drilling an exploratory well off the coast of Norway. This time not searching…
Change diet, add lentils first
Climate change must be stopped before it stops us! How can we do this? We must evolve from a fossil-fuel driven economy to a more…
Sustainable urban planning makes smarter cities
The world is moving away from traditional energy sources towards more efficient and smarter energy systems. The Smart City concept is not new anymore, and…
The flexible virtues of PtX
The Power of X – not talking here about the Marvel mutant superheroes, but about technologies that can help us to fight climate change. Southwestern…
The Great Biomass Boondoggle
The urgency of the climate crisis is inspiring some extreme and unproven ideas for how to hide carbon and cool the planet, such as ocean…
Brazil sugarcane growth can meet biofuel need and not drive deforestation
Sugarcane production in Brazil could expand by more than 5 million hectares (19,305 square miles) by 2030 to meet demand for ethanol biofuels, according to…
Renewable fuels will not solve aviation’s climate dilemma
Powering aeroplanes with renewable fuels is crucial for making flying less climate-damaging, but it will get aviation nowhere near climate neutrality, environmental NGOs, industry representatives…
Can mobile payment apps spur green living?
Ant Forest turns an Alipay user’s environmentally friendly actions into “green energy”, which they can then use to plant and nurture a virtual tree. When…
UN report: Pollution from planned fossil fuel production would overshoot Paris climate goals
In the 2015 international Paris Climate Agreement, nearly every country [see editor’s note] agreed to try and limit global warming to no more than 2…
Using language to make the world of fossil fuels strange and ugly
They weren’t getting it. I had a room full of bright first-year university students in front of me, but confusion reigned as I tried to…