On the centenary of the Nobel laureate’s birth, Patrick French explores her science-infused series Canopus in Argos. Lessing wove space exploration, migration, climate change and social disintegration into novels that seem astonishingly prescient today. In the 1920s, growing up on a poor farm in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) Doris Lessing received impromptu outdoor lessons in […]
Improve your Mental Health and Stop Voting Strategically !
Improve your Mental Health and Stop Voting Strategically ! “When we develop the right story, and learn how to tell it, it will infect the minds of people across the political spectrum.” George Monbiot Look at this graphic. What do you see? Data Above from the 2015 election I see a bunch of unhappy voters […]
Oil and gas companies approve $50 billion of major projects that undermine climate targets and risk shareholder returns
Oil and gas companies have approved $50 billion of investment since 2018 in major projects that undermine climate targets and threaten shareholder returns, Carbon Tracker finds in a report released today. The first study to identify individual projects that are inconsistent with the Paris Agreement finds that no major oil company is investing to support […]
Oil in the time of climate summit
The world’s largest oil companies gathered in New York City on Monday [September 23, 2019]. At the same time, global leaders met at the UN Climate Summit. Executives from thirteen fossil fuel companies talked about how to defend their industry as countries around the world planned to cut carbon dioxide emissions. The chief executive of […]
Let’s reduce wholesale market costs by tapping the full potential of DERs
The cost and performance of distributed energy resources (DERs) have improved faster than anyone would have expected. Between 2010 and 2017, residential rooftop solar system costs fell over 60%, and lithium-ion battery prices fell 79%. Inverter prices have also fallen, while their functionality has improved in ways that enable the integration of higher penetrations of […]