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Natural gas is a fuel for electricity generation that serves as a bridge to a Smart Grid that fully integrates renewables and energy storage into the energy portfolio.[read more]

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Because of the slow progress in displacing fossil fuels with renewables, carbon capture and sequestration should receive much more attention as a game-changing technology.[read more]

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Could the same movement that brought down Apartheid be the key tactic in convincing America to go fossil fuel free and preventing a new financial crisis?[read more]

North Carolina renewables

Clean energy advocates in North Carolina have won a major battle in the opening stages of a nationwide fossil fuel-funded war against renewable energy standards in America.[read more]

climate change on campus

Climate issues are clearly important to today’s college students – 62% of all college applicants in a survey said a school’s commitment to the environment would influence their decision to apply or attend the school.[read more]

Alberta tar sands

It's not in our national interest. It's a profit scheme for big oil. It would feed our addiction to fossil fuels, accelerate climate change and put our heartland farmers, ranchers and communities at risk. It needs to be denied.[read more]

dirty energy's winning

Despite big drops in the cost of renewable energy systems and strong growth in deployment around the world, the fossil fuel industry remains unchallenged in its dominance, pushing global carbon emissions without any signs of stopping.[read more]

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There is a bewildering array of messages on climate change. It is little wonder that policy makers, the public, academia and NGOs are collectively at a loss as to how to take the climate issue forward.[read more]

 

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The World Bank cannot meaningfully address climate change unless its lending practices, and core energy portfolio, do not further exacerbate the climate crisis and its impact on vulnerable communities.[read more]

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There are lots of energy sources that might be called “renewable,” and lots applications for renewable energy. Clearly not all are equally good.[read more]

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Japan increased the use of fossil fuels for power generation 21% in 2012, following the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident.[read more]

There’s no use talking about new energy sources without assessing the social, political, and economic contexts into which they might emerge. For unless a nascent technology can command broad stakeholder assent within a given socio-political context, the technology is likely to remain marginal within it. The Canadian oil sands, which I discussed here previously, provide a case in point. And, perhaps, a harbinger of things to come.[read more]

In a situation of constrained oil supply, if a country reduces its oil consumption, it doesn’t mean that more oil will be left in the ground. Instead, the oil saved goes back on the world oil market (perhaps at a slightly lower price) and is bought by someone else who can make better use of it. So why do we insist that we can replace coal so easily?[read more]

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“We are running out of fossil fuel”. I’ve been hearing this for a while, and it has created a sort of panic all over the world. Tendency is to believe that this is happening in the next few years... But is it true?It is true that fossil fuel resources are finite, and according to the International Energy Agency’s – IEA - World Energy...[read more]

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Despite all the political rhetoric, the bottom line hasn't changed: Carbon emissions are increasing in every corner of the planet. This is largely due to the fact that the global economy is so unequivocally tied to fossil fuel consumption.In 2009, a drop in emissions left casual observers optimistic that the transition from a carbon-...[read more]