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Asheville Votes to Move Beyond Coal
Chicago. Los Angeles. Austin. Asheville. Wait, what? That’s right, Asheville, North Carolina, can now join the ranks of cities that have chosen to move beyond coal. On Tuesday night the city council voted UNANIMOUSLY to move the city from coal-fired electricity toward a clean energy future. I was just in Asheville in July with my […]
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Party like it’s 1994! America’s CO2 emissions hit 18-year low
In 2012, energy-related carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. fell to 1994 levels.
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For climate scientists, shutdown casts long shadow
An Antarctic scientist explains how the impacts of the shutdown could be felt for years to come.
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Celebrating the 1,000th Sierra Club Solar Home
It’s been more than two years since my husband and I installed solar panels on the roof of our home in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. As the months have passed, I’ve enjoyed watching the ticker continually rise on the amount of solar power our panels have generated. I love knowing that our home is more powered […]
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An anti-GMO wave rising from Kauai?
It's just one little Hawaiian island, but it's also a big biotech testing ground, so Kauai's move to regulate could ripple widely.
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The end of Meatpaper and the state of the fleischgeist
Before the feisty magazine bit the dust, it helped bring us a little bit closer to everyone -- and everything -- involved in this carnivorous life.
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Cold justice: Alaska Supreme Court hears college kid’s climate case
Should the atmosphere be considered part of the public trust, a resource essential for our collective survival? That’s one question currently being considered by the Alaska Supreme Court, which earlier this month traveled to the northernmost town in the United States to hear arguments for a climate change lawsuit brought by six youth plaintiffs. On […]
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Why is WGBH Legitimizing David Koch’s Climate Change Denial?
Last Wednesday, more than 50 people gathered outside of WGBH — Boston’s public television station and the largest producer of national PBS television content — with 119,000 petition signatures calling on the station to drop David Koch from its board. Even Elmo was there (well, a local climate activist dressed up as Elmo), to say that a man who […]
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Norway’s massive oil wealth could be invested in renewables, “change the world”
Norway has more money than it knows what to do with. And while leaders figure out how they want to manage the nation’s roughly $790 billion public pension fund going forward, there’s real potential for an “unprecedented shift” in renewable energy investment. Norway’s enormous pension coffers, fat off the country’s offshore oil wealth, could ironically […]
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Ontario Kills Coal, But Local Renewables Program Falters
It was one of the most ambitious renewable energy programs in the world when it launched in 2009, committing the Canadian province to buy power from thousands of new renewable energy systems. It was open and accessible to the average person, and it was committed to buying power only from projects that were “made in […]
