Energy Crunch: Avoiding a new dash for gas
Nearly half the UK is now open to fracking. The latest onshore oil and gas licensing round opened up most of England and the Midland Valley of Scotland for applications to drill…
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Breaking the Grip of the Fossil Fuel Economy: If It Can Happen in Appalachia, It Can Happen Anywhere
The people who agreed to spend their days digging coal from the underside of mountains produced enough power to industrialize the nation: They’re owed something back.
The Global Energy Market’s Moment of Truth
Sustainability is not good for many businesses – in fact it means they’ll have to go out of business. This is what sustainability at its core is all about – things that are unsustainable will stop.
Returns on Divestments?
I believe we’re at a point where renewables are going to continue becoming more affordable while fossil fuels continue to get more expensive, and more risky.
Energy Crunch: What’s the big picture?
Hopes of a shale bonanza to replace dwindling conventional resources took a battering this week.
Toward a Supply Constrained World
In this installment we discuss the potential role of renewable energy in transition and macroeconomic models in the face of supply constraints.
The sower’s strategy: how to speed up the sustainable energy transition
In order to survive the double threat of resource depletion and climate change we need to move as quickly as possible to a sustainable society based on renewable resources.
Energy Crunch: Fracking Under Fire
Coalition energy policy came under fire from an unusual source this week – former energy secretary and noted fracking enthusiast Lord Howell. …he now claims the government’s view of shale gas “is much too optimistic…
Saudi America and a Nuclear Future?
We spoke with Chris Nelder in Extraenvironmentalist episde #76. This is the first part of a transcript prepared by EE listener Scott.
Taxing the sun: The Koch brothers find a tax they like
The Koch brothers, the much-maligned fossil fuel titans, were in the news last week after their legislative stalking horse, the innocuously named American Legislative Exchange Council, was discovered pushing legislation in the states that would establish new fees on solar energy.
Energy Crunch: The end of business as usual for fossil fuels?
It’s the end of business as usual for fossil fuels. That’s according to the latest report from the IPCC, released on Sunday.
The Grand Challenge of the Energy Transition
How are we going to meet the challenge of functioning without fossil fuels?