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Image credit: kevindooley /Flickr There are enormous opportunities to use energy more efficiently. Investing in energy efficiency is often far cheaper than expanding the energy supply to meet growing demand. Efficiency investments typically yield a...
Though Manhattan experiences similar daytime temperatures to surrounding areas, it simply doesn’t cool off nearly as much at night. Photo: Jakob Montrasio via flickr. If you thought the heatwaves we’ve already experienced this summer in...
Bill McKibben — some-time guest blogger and the author most recently of the must-read book Eaarth — has a challenging review of my book Straight Up in the Washington Monthly . He literally challenges me to talk more about political movements on...
Image: GM HFO-1234yf Will be Used in GM’s 2013 Models We talk a lot about CO2 because it is the greenhouse gas that humanity produces in the biggest quantity, but there are many others that contribute to warming our planet. The refrigerant in...
Now that the political prognosticators have sounded the death knell for cap and trade, it seems like a good time to look back on what got us here. Eric Pooley, the deputy editor of Bloomberg Businessweek, has new book out, “The Climate War: True...
Photo via the Guardian I know I’ve ranted and raved a fair amount about the ignominious death of comprehensive climate and clean energy legislation . But lest we all head into our weekends wholly downtrodden and helpless-feeling, a few more words...
I have a few thoughts about what’s next for climate action in the U.S. In the wake of yesterday’s devastating announcement that the U.S. Senate will not be advancing a climate bill, of any kind, there’s been a crash of morale across...
Image via Motivated Photos Well, the waiting game is over. Questions swirling around what the whittled-down climate and clean energy legislation would look like — Will it go after utilities’ carbon emissions ? Will it mandate clean energy...
Photo via Pax Communications If 97% of climate scientists are right , then history will judge present-day world leaders first and foremost on what they did to combat climate change once the plight was made clear. Take Barack Obama. 75 years from now,...
