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Dammed Good Questions about the Green New Deal

Hydroelectric power from dams might be the thorniest issue that proponents of the Green New Deal (GND) have to grapple with. Providing more energy than solar and wind combined, dams could well become the key backup “renewable” if it otherwise proves impossible to get off of fossil fuels fast enough. Rivers and lakes are an […]

Filed Under: Climate Change, Economic Growth and Degrowth, Environment, Technology Tagged With: climate change, corporations, degrowth, economic growth, renewable energy, sustainability, technology

Thinking Outside the Grid

Thirty years ago, a friend of mine published a book called 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save The Earth. It described the huge environmental benefits that would result if everyone made some simple adjustments to their way of life. Six hundred thousand gallons of gas could be saved every day, for example, if […]

Filed Under: Climate Change, Consumerism, Environment, Food and Farming, Inner transformation, Local energy Tagged With: climate change, community, corporations, local food, localization, renewable energy

What is ‘Energy Denial’?

The fiftieth anniversary of the first Earth Day of 1970 will be in 2020. As environmentalism has gone mainstream during that half-century, it has forgotten its early focus and shifted toward green capitalism. Nowhere is this more apparent than abandonment of the slogan popular during the early Earth Days: “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.” The unspoken motto […]

Filed Under: Climate Change, Environment, Local energy, Technology Tagged With: climate change, renewable energy, sustainability, technology

The 9% lie: industrial food and climate change

The Climate Emergency is finally getting the attention of the media and the U.S. (and world) body politic, as well as a growing number of politicians, activists and even U.S. farmers. This great awakening has arrived just in time, given the record-breaking temperatures, violent weather, crop failures and massive waves of forced migration that are […]

Filed Under: Climate Change, Environment, Food and Farming Tagged With: agriculture, climate change, corporations, farming, global food, industrial agriculture, local food, renewable energy, sustainability

Life in a ‘degrowth’ economy, and why you might actually enjoy it

What does genuine economic progress look like? The orthodox answer is that a bigger economy is always better, but this idea is increasingly strained by the knowledge that, on a finite planet, the economy can’t grow for ever. But what is a steady-state economy? Why it is it desirable or necessary? And what would it […]

Filed Under: Economic Growth and Degrowth, Food and Farming, Livelihoods and jobs, Local energy, Localization, New economy Tagged With: degrowth, development, economic growth, livelihoods, localization, new economy, renewable energy, sustainability

From Local Pants to Local Energy: The Case for Localizing Our Economies

(This article originally appeared on Truthout.org.) During a panel discussion this May on Community Choice Energy, a rapidly growing initiative in California and six other states that enables communities to seize control of local electricity services, I argued for the economic benefits of building out local, decentralized renewable energy assets such as rooftop and community […]

Filed Under: Local energy, Localization Tagged With: corporations, decentralized energy, global economy, globalization, local energy, localization, renewable energy

Changing Everything

Among climate change activists, solutions usually center on a transition to renewable energy. There may be differences over whether this would be best accomplished by a carbon tax, bigger subsidies for wind and solar power, divestment from fossil fuel companies, massive demonstrations, legislative fiat or some other strategy, but the goal is generally the same: […]

Filed Under: Climate Change Tagged With: big picture activism, climate change, globalization, localization, Naomi Klein, renewable energy, solar power, This Changes Everything, wind power

Ice Cream, Shamans, and Climate Change

In the summer of 1969, I was 18 years old with a job driving an ice cream truck in a small New England town. One July afternoon the weather was hot and humid – ideal for ice cream – but business was dismal, the streets almost deserted. Eventually someone ran out and flagged me down, […]

Filed Under: Climate Change, Indigenous worldview Tagged With: climate change, fossil fuels, indigenous, industrial system, moon landing, renewable energy, sacredness, worldview

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