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World's biggest art installation will call for climate action
Over the next week, a project called 350 EARTH will put together the planet’s largest work of art, visible from space. Want to lend your body to the cause?
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Last Chance to Tell EPA We Want Strong Coal Ash Safeguards
The comment period ends tomorrow for the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed federal safeguards for toxic coal ash. Coal ash is the by-product of burning coal for electricity, and it contains a toxic mix of chemicals: mercury, arsenic, lead, chromium, selenium, and more. We’ve been calling for strong federal safeguards from EPA during the comment period […]
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Bjorn Lomborg's mostly unoriginal, kind-of-dishonest new movie is worth thinking about anyway
'Cool It' is a movie by a lying liar who lies, but that doesn't mean Lomborg doesn't have a point: we should be spending more money on clean energy.
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The battle over drilling moves north to Alaska
So it looks like Lisa Murkowski has won her write-in campaign to get re-elected to the Senate.
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Applying the lessons of Copenhagen in Cancun
In preparing for the upcoming climate talks in Cancun less than two weeks away, I can't help but look back at where things were a year ago.
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Why tax credits make lousy renewable energy policy
The cash grant program is set to end this year, but solar and wind advocates hope it will be extended, for good reason. Tax credits make dumb policy.
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Understanding the smart meter backlash
The California revolt over smart grids says plenty about the importance of psychology in energy tech. And while protests over radiation and cost ripoffs may be debunk-able, privacy concerns aren't going away quickly.
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Important actions can be accomplished at climate negotiations in Cancun
We are not going to get a binding treaty in Cancun, Mexico when 194 countries meet to continue negotiations on international efforts to address climate change. And we are not going to finalize all of the details of new international efforts. But if you believe, as I do, that real action can occur without a "binding" agreement or having all the details completed you’ll be surprised to learn that some key things might actually happen in Cancun.
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Chris Paine prepares 'Revenge of the Electric Car'
The man who made Who Killed the Electric Car? is back. And this time, he's not getting mad -- he's getting even.
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Climate change cobenefits: new opportunities for policy?
This week, I’ve been attending the 3rd annual Governor’s Global Climate Summit at UC Davis, where I am a PhD student in Ecology. With only a month and a few days left until Arnold finishes his term as governor of “the great state of California” as he calls it, he’s pulled out all the stops […]
