Renewables Dethrone Dinosaur Utilities
“The question is not if or even when the change will come, but rather, how fast.”
Terror and Terraformation
National Climate Assessment: Step Off The Gas, Step Up The Solar
“It does not evaluate mitigation technologies or policies or undertake an analysis of the effectiveness of various approaches.”
Backward Policies Won’t Stop Solar Boom
Why on earth is anyone thinking about pulling the sunshine plug?
Turning Farms Into Solar Farms
Consolidating precious natural resources in a warming world is a must.
Americans Want Solar to Replace Fossil Fuels
Navigant’s poll results hit the presses this week alongside the IPCC’s terrifying tale of two futures.
Renewable Energy Can Save Us From Climate Change
No one on the planet, the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report reminds us, will be left untouched.
Countries Embrace Renewable Energy Future
The International Energy Agency’s new report says global integration of variable renewable energies (VRE) like solar and wind into our obsolete power systems is just a matter of time.
Solar’s Role In The Climate Change Talkathon
America got a much-deserved earful when over two dozen Democratic senators pulled an all-nighter in Congress to shine a light on catastrophic climate change. About solar, specifically,
Arizona Needs Solar Utilities
Protracted and unnecessary turf battles for utility and residential control of the state’s solar bounty could stall governor Jan Brewer’s emPOWER Arizona.
Are You A Vet? Work For Solar
Over 13,000 military veterans now work within the sunshine industry, comprising over 9 percent of its quickly growing workforce. Mission accomplished.
What Will Renewable Energy Look Like In 2030?
Like many others, the International Renewable Energy Association has released a global road map to clean energy.
Terror and Terraformation: Alan Moore
“There’s something quaint about these attempts to control us today, in a period where we are boiling with information and complexity, both of which have reached levels that could be called fractal, if that wasn’t a polite way of saying chaotic.“
What Is Pre-Crime? Our Nationalist Pastime
Digital dragnets like Stellar Wind, PRISM and other psy-fi boondoggles have evidently not been surveilling enough of neither Us nor Them to predict or prevent terrorist attacks.
Five Ways Elon Musk’s Future Industries Could Change the World
Tesla Motors, SolarCity and more are already helping save us all from a cli-fi apocalypse.
Life To The Pixies!
Unbowed, the Pixies’ reconstructed band, and brand, now soldiers ahead with street and market cred to spare.
Seven States Leading Clean Energy‘s Charge
Here’s a refresher on the realities of recent green blooms in red states and blue, including some who may be worse polluters than you think.
A Tale of Two Trials: Bradley Manning and Robert Bales
This appeal for sense and decency has been syndicated at HuffPo. One is the constitutional trial of the century so far, which started Monday but may forever reshape how we […]
Cancer’s Cooked Books
Drop pretty much everything you’re eating if you want to live. A recent study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition — featuring the scary title, ” Is everything […]
Four Things You Should Know About Your Third Eye
Located in nearly the direct center of the brain, the tiny pinecone-shaped pineal gland, which habitually secretes the wondrous neurohormone melatonin while we sleep at night, was once thought to […]
Goro Miyazaki’s Anxiety of Animation Influence
My father’s generation lived through and after the war, and basically had nothing. They forged their paths with their own hands, and created their whole world themselves.
Why Does Jon Stewart Cower Before Power?
Jon Stewart has changed late-night television for the smarter, but The Daily Show’s satire kingpin has a way of cowering before powerful people when they come on his set for interviews.
Bilbo the Billionaire: A Short History of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Greed Wars
J.R.R. Tolkien legendarily wrote In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote, one Oxford summer while “laborious[ly]” grading papers for some always welcome side money. Both of us, he could have added, will be stinking rich someday.
Ten Lessons Of The Environmental Movement, According To A Fierce Green Fire
I spoke with A Fierce Green Fire‘s director Mark Kitchell.
‘We Are Slaves To Fossil Fuels:’ Interview With Chasing Ice Director Jeff Orlowski
One of the things that amazes me is how incredibly conservative scientists are about climate change prediction. Their livelihoods and careers are based on being as accurate as possible, and if they’re not they’re looked at fringe and pushed to the outskirts of the community.
Cli-Fi: Why Isn’t Chasing Ice Up For An Academy Award?
“A nomination would be an incredible longshot. But our hope is that it would bring a lot of significant attention to climate change, because this is the issue of our time.”