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A New Wrinkle in Our Time: Transforming the Oil Economy

11 May 2020
I've written before about how precarious the fossil fuel industry has actually been for many years now. A friend sent this brilliant summary of the recent oil price crash, and…
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Earth Day & March for Science

22 Apr 2017
I'm heading to the lovely Santa Cruz March for Science and Earth Day celebration, and wanted to share a song to celebrate that: (You can also see the lyrics to…
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Energy Return on Investment

1 May 20161 May 2016
What every schoolkid (and investor) should know, and why it is time for fossil fuel divestment. Energy Return on Investment (EROI) is easy to understand: how much energy do you…
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We’ve got goals: the 17 SDGs

15 Feb 201628 Feb 2016
The UNDP's Sustainable Development Goals took effect the first day of 2016.  I'll be leading a discussion of these goals at the upcoming NTU Sustainability Salon.  As I see it, the most…
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Goodbye and good riddance to coal

29 Jan 201629 Jan 2016
Two fascinating and promising new articles regarding this fossil of a fuel (both from German Energiewende perspectives): Is renewable electricity now driving coal prices? Craig Morris at Energy Transition makes the argument that, particularly in…
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The Smoke of Centuries: Indonesia’s Fires

9 Nov 2015
The fires in Indonesia  burn rainforest trees that have grown and fed and housed orangutans for decades or centuries, and peat that has stored carbon for centuries or millennia.  George Monbiot…
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Singapore’s outsized footprint

7 Oct 2014
Singapore is putting some efforts into improving sustainability, but that doesn't mean we're outpacing the problem. From Channel News Asia: Singapore was found to have the seventh-largest ecological footprint [per…
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Good riddance to disposable plastic bags in CA

24 Sep 20141 Oct 2014
The Cabrillo Sustainability Council worked to eliminate plastic bags in 2011. Now a California statewide ban looks likely, having passed in the state legislature, though we're still waiting for Gov.…
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In the red again

20 Aug 201421 Aug 2014
As a species, we're into deficit spending for the year on the stuff that really matters, the stuff that keeps us going.  Yesterday was estimated to be Earth Overshoot Day 2014: the day…
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A Beautiful Action

9 Aug 2013
I spent last Saturday in Richmond, California with a couple thousand amazing people, including Bill McKibben, who had this to say: ... daily life was interrupted dramatically one year ago today…

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