As Bill McKibben notes here, it really hasn’t been a good couple of days for Big Oil. Are investors concerned about the baking of the planet at the hands of the fossil fuel industry, or are they worried about the …
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Bill McKibben Talks Divestment at the Bioneers Conference
I just had the pleasure of meeting one of my heroes, Bill McKibben, here at the Bioneers conference. The University of California system has just divested its endowment and pension plans of fossil fuels. That’s $3 billion. Shell Oil warns …
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The Empire Strikes Back
Change always provokes counter-attack, and the more money is at stake, the more ferocious the reprisal. As anyone could have predicted, the growing dominance of solar and wind, based largely on their plummeting costs, is quite correctly perceived as a …
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The Validity of Natural Gas as an Energy Resource
In a newsletter, Bill McKibben notes that we need to: 1) Stop new fossil fuel infrastructure. If you’re serious about Paris, that means realizing we’re already overshooting the temperature targets we set there – there’s literally no more room in …
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The Dialectic: Activism Blossoms Under the Trump Presidency
This isn’t an original thought, but it’s a good one. It was expressed yesterday by the Governor of Vermont, who said something like, “The only good thing about the Trump presidency is that it has turned tens of millions of …
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Fighting for Environmental Protection
Though we tend to think of current-day U.S. politics as being the most contentious ever in our history, that’s not the case. There have been many such periods, starting with the American Revolution itself, in which 70% of the colonists …
Looking Beyond the White House for Strategic Planning in Clean Transportation
My colleague Jon LeSage writes in his Green Auto Digest: The Trump administration is keeping the president’s campaign promises supporting fossil fuels and pushing back on clean energy and efficient, clean transport. The State Department’s approval of the Keystone XL …
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Bill McKibben and the Bioneers Know What It Takes To Win Humankind’s Most Important Battle
Though this portrait might suggest otherwise, Bill McKibben may be the least militaristic person you’ll ever meet. He’s dedicated his entire adult life to establishing a sustainable way of life for everyone here on Earth, both now and into the …
The Effect of Raising One’s Voice
Re: my post on Bill McKibben speaking about the U.S. presidential election, frequent gainsayer MarcoPolo writes: Advocates like Mckibben may get cheers from the “converted” but many Democrats will stay away from the polls because they don’t like his rhetoric. …
What Happens in the Arctic Doesn't Stay in the Arctic
I thought that was a clever little title, but I take no credit for it. It’s a line from this article on climate change, and, in particular, the melting of the Arctic and the release of incredible quantities of previously …
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