Renewable Friday: Inslee's Got a Plan, and Beto's Got a Plan, and All God's...
We’re the first generation to feel the sting of climate change, and we’re the last that can do something about it.Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has just announced A New American Climate Mission. This is...
View ArticleRenewable Friday: India Up To COP21
Back before COP21 in 2015, Denialists were claiming that India would never get on board with renewables, as if this were somehow a reason for the US not to do so either. At the time, Indian Prime...
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It's Good News Roundup's Birthday!
日日是好日—Every Day is a Good DayYunmen handed down words and said, "I do not ask you about before the 15th day has ended. I invite you to speak using one sentence about after the 15th day is done."He...
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Renewable Friday: India Since COP21
Last week I published Renewable Friday: India Up To COP21, about India's reluctance to move to renewable energy until then. Their turnaround at COP21 is an excellent instance of Bucky Fuller's trimtab...
View ArticleRenewable Friday: Electric Cars
tl;dr It's happening! Gas guzzlers will soon cost more to purchase than battery electrics worldwide, and the death spiral will pick up ever more speed. (They already cost more to own.) Plans for...
View ArticleRenewable Friday: Cato Abandons Its Denialists
Or is it the other way around? The Cato Institute, once the Koch Institute, has been having trouble with its Global Warming Denial program. For example, their lead Climate denier Pat Michaels [is...
View ArticleMy Diary Runneth Over—Too Much Good News Wednesday
Did you hear Jon Stewart in Congress today giving them what for over the 9/11 Responders Bill?xYouTube VideoThe inaction in Congress is of course not good news. But such a response to it is. It will...
View ArticleRenewable Friday: Charging Stations Everywhere, But Not Yet
The moldy Denialist lie of the week is that electric cars have no future because charging. We knew better years ago. "As more EVs hit our streets, when will people start getting 'gas anxiety?'" Gas...
View ArticleRenewable Friday: The Trump Effect
Trump & Co. are evil. But also incompetent. Beyond incompetent. Their actions commonly backfire to an astounding degree. Let's have a look at their environmental record, and what a disaster it has...
View ArticleRenewable Friday: Our Most Important Renewable Resource is Children
More than a billion of them at a time.One of the largest environmental protests ever is underway. It’s led by children.Kids are fed up with grown-ups’ inaction on climate change.Scientific American:...
View ArticleRenewable Friday: Floating Solar
tl;dr Floating solar has the potential to supply a terawatt of energy capacity or more, out of the 16 or so that the world needs. A terawatt here, a terawatt there, and pretty soon you're talking about...
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Renewable Friday: Electric Buses
The bus wars are over. Electricity — and China — won. Actually, that means that we are all winning. Electric buses have zero emissions, and a lower Total Cost of Ownership than diesel buses. They save...
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Renewable Friday: The Great Green Wall of Africa
A Great Green Wall of trees in Africa 10 miles wide (15 km) and 4,350 miles long (7,775 km) is under "construction", bisecting a dozen countries from Senegal in the west to Djibouti in the east,...
View ArticleRenewable Friday: Rest of World
Good News: The Developing World Is Taking Over Renewable EnergyLast year, the leading economies in renewable energy investment growth were not to be found in North America or even Europe — the leaders...
View ArticleGood News Wednesday: We Will Not Replace Them
Their own children will, by the millions every year.The Week: The kids are all DemocratsFor over a decade, young people have been voting overwhelmingly for progressives and, more importantly, telling...
View ArticleRenewable Friday: Kayfabe in the Presidential Debate
Why is CNN trying to turn discussions of Global Warming and other issues at their "debate" into kayfabe? Fakety-fake pro wrestling sagas full of heroes (faces) and villains (heels) and their supposedly...
View ArticleAnti-Capitalist Meetup: Who Owns Their Means of Production?
Karl Marx promised that Communist revolutions would break out in every fully-developed Capitalist country, resulting in the workers coming to own all means of production. That has, of course, never...
View ArticleGood News Thursday: The Best of Everything
It's true. We Democrats all want the best of everything for everybody, whether they don't like it, or not. (HT Misterjaw) It's not our fault that a raging but shrinking minority refuses our offer for...
View ArticleRenewable Friday: Peak Humanity
We have to stop generating more of ourselves. We use more of some resources than the Earth and Sun generate. We use more fossil fuels than life on Earth can sustain. We are working on getting to Peak...
View ArticleRenewable Friday: Our Land Can Save Us—Partly
If we let it. The IPCC has issued another urgent warning: Misuse of land and soil contributes a great deal to Global Warming. Fixing that misuse would go a long way to solving the problem. How, then,...
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