14 Notable Climate Influencers of 2017
This was a year of tug-of-war for the environment. With Donald Trump becoming president of the U.S. at a time when wildfires, hurricanes, and floods were devastating the country, it was…
Untapped potential of geothermal energy
In a presentation for the CleanTech Alliance, Susan Petty, co-founder of AltaRock Energy, provides her view on how geothermal energy is a viable renewable energy…
Costa Rica’s Electricity Has Run Entirely on Renewables For 300 Days in 2017
A new record, with weeks to go before the year is up. Costa Rica has done it again. In January, the Central American country announced…
MEPs to vote on ‘strict minimum’ 35% renewables target
The European Parliament’s influential Committee on Industry, Research and Energy will vote on Tuesday (28 November) on a compromise deal that could set the bloc’s…
COP23: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Bonn
Climate change was again placed at the centre of global diplomacy over the past two weeks as diplomats and ministers gathered in Bonn, Germany, for…
The Kemper County CCS project – what went wrong and what next?
A long-running saga finally came to an end this July, as the Kemper County carbon capture and storage (CCS) facility was ordered to cease operations…
Funtana Raminosa: where the copper rush began
Isolated among the mountains, in the middle of Sardinia (Italy), with a butte here and there that breaks the skyline that surrounds and hides the…
Climate change is a market failure
US president Donald Trump is gearing up for war in the east, but not against North Korea and not by nuclear or conventional means of…
7 Reasons We’re Facing a Global Water Crisis
Droughts in Somalia. Water rationing in Rome. Flooding in Jakarta and Harvey-battered Houston. It doesn’t take a hydrologist to realize that there is a growing…
The alarming link between greenhouse effect and hurricanes
Who lives by the fossil fuels shall die by the global warming. Cynical, unforgiving, bitter, acrimonious and catastrophic? Sure. It ticks all the boxes. But…
Nuttallburg
Nuttallburg, West Virginia, USA, owes its name to English entrepreneur John Nuttall, who saw a golden opportunity in the coal-rich New River gorge and began…
Alaska’s Small Villages Turn Toward Renewables — And Don’t Look Back
Early in summer 2015, a barge hauling two deconstructed wind turbines lumbered out of Seattle bound for the Alaskan Arctic. It traveled along the western…
Paw-sitive climate change actions for pets
Is climate change one of your pet peeves? Do you care about the environment? Are you worried about global warming? Unfortunately, our pets increase the…