Time to Revalue Solar
New York Utilities and Solar Companies Jointly Revalue Grid-Exported Distributed Generation to Support Solar Growth On April 18, 2016, a coalition of New York State electric utilities…
MIT researchers convert waste gas into liquid fuel
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have discovered a form of bioconversion that could be used to convert waste gases to biodiesel for…
US and China agree to sign Climate Change agreement
The White House announced that the U.S. and China countries would sign the Paris Climate Agreement on April 22nd, the Earth-day.President Barack Obama and President…
The world mourns the loss of Berta Cáceres
Honduran environmentalist leader Berta Cáceres has been shot dead at her home in the town of La Esperanza. “Honduras has lost a brave and committed social…
Hijacking the Anthropocene
How the anti-green ‘Breakthrough Institute’ misrepresents science to advance a technocratic agenda and undermine grassroots environmentalism
9 reasons why the EU’s bank is no climate leader
As declarations emerge from Paris about the billions and trillions of dollars needed to combat the affects of climate change, the world’s largest public lender,…
Energy Storage: the key to renewables success
For some years now, scientists have been proposing the exhaustion of fossil fuels. The idea of finding a way to make renewables as primary and…
Climate denialism: a brief history
In the late 1970s, scientists first came to a consensus that global warming was likely to result from increasing greenhouse gases released by the burning…
Welcome to a New Planet
Climate Change “Tipping Points” and the Fate of the Earth
Paris always worth a mass?
The COP 21 final accord is seen by many as crucial to move world societies towards resilient, low-carbon economies. Not everyone agrees
Carbon capture and storage: the black sheep of green energy?
Mixed fortunes for this unloved carbon-cutting technology
Eleven organizations collaborate on innovation Dutch Windwheel
Eleven companies and research institutes have joined forces to start an innovation program for the development of the ù AM and Royal BAM Group, Deltares, Dura…
The Paris Agreement: not great but still a good deal
“Perfect is the enemy of the good, so we don’t have a perfect agreement but a good agreement and this is an earth-shaking moment,” said…