Robert Hoffman, past chair CACOR addresses “Canadian Public Policy on Energy and Emissions” It is evident that there has been a failure of public policy in Canada with respect to energy and climate change. The need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to avoid catastrophic global warming was recognized and accepted more than four […]
Against all odds? — Modelling the low-carbon transition
Can renewable energy supply grow rapidly enough to both cover societies’ growing energy needs and displace fossil fuel use sufficiently to keep carbon emissions below some “safe” level? — the leading question of a recent CUSP paper in Ecological Economics. In this blog, Martin Sers is summarising the findings. According to the May 2nd release by […]
Friday Thinking 19 Aug 2016
Friday Thinking is a humble curation of my foraging in the digital environment. My purpose is to pick interesting pieces, based on my own curiosity (and the curiosity of the many interesting people I follow), about developments in some key domains (work, organization, social-economy, intelligence, domestication of DNA, energy, etc.) that suggest we are in […]