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Community solar pioneers
After cutting through untold red tape, University Park Community Solar is ready to begin installation on one of the country's first truly community-owned solar power projects. Let's hope the model spreads.
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A Big Coal Ash Problem At Little Blue
This post is the latest in our series of coal ash community profiles. Our work on coal ash unfortunately becomes timely yet again, as news came out this week of a breach at a coal ash impoundment in North Carolina. This week’s profile was written by Sierra Club Apprentice Andrea Sanchez. There is nothing little […]
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Before big China climate conference, new Senate support for clean energy
I’ll be in Beijing later this week, and then on to Tianjin to cover China’s first U.N.-sponsored climate summit, which begins Oct. 4. Before leaving, though, I wanted to note that on September 22, a group of Republican and Democratic senators sent a rare bipartisan signal to the world that the United States has not abandoned the hard work of reducing climate emissions and speeding the clean energy transition.
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Why an additional road tax for bicyclists would be unfair
People who ride bikes are already shelling out more than their share for asphalt. Here's why it makes good economic sense for cities to encourage cycling.
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Meet Generation Hot
Every child born after 6/23/88 belongs to what I call Generation Hot. They will spend the rest of their lives confronting global warming's impacts.
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Climate denialism down, but so is caring about climate
Climate denialism is shrinking, and the U.S. is not among the worst offenders.
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A Kentucky Community Surrounded by Coal Ash
This week’s coal ash community profile was written by Elizabeth Irvin, a Sierra Club Apprentice. For one weekend each year in early May, Louisville, Kentucky, boasts an abnormally high concentration of horses, jockeys, mint juleps, and elaborate hats. Less than ten miles from Churchill Downs, the neighborhood of Riverside Gardens has been dealing with an […]
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Answer me this
I often spend parts of my day ranting against theoreticians and conference attenders who are essentially fiddling while Rome burns. I get really tired of the theorizing and the screwing around next to the chocolate dipped strawberries outside the panel discussion. That said, I realize there is an anti-intellectual flavor to this kind of thinking, […]
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Bjorn Lomborg: same skeptic, different day
Bjorn Lomborg, the Danish climate skeptic, is back in the news. He now wants to have it both ways, calling climate change real, but not really urgent.
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Solar cell production climbs to another record in 2009
This article was written by my colleague J. Matthew Roney at the Earth Policy Institute. Solar photovoltaic (PV) cell manufacturers produced a record 10,700 megawatts of PV cells globally in 2009 — an impressive 51 percent increase from the year before. While growth in 2009 slowed from the remarkable 89 percent expansion in 2008, it […]
