Picture the air your kids breathe on the walk to school. The river you swam in as a kid. The summers that used to feel like summer. The rooftop down the street that now makes its own power. None of it is guaranteed. Every bit of it is shaped by the people we elect: who…
Somewhere in your fridge, a bag of spinach is quietly becoming a climate problem.It has company. The world threw away 1.05 billion tons of food in 2022. That’s more than a billion meals a day. Food loss and waste now drive 8 to 10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. That’s nearly five times the…
Good news, everyone! Carbon pollution has been solved — from the fossil fuel industry’s point of view. On Monday, at a G20 summit branded “Energy Abundance“, the EPA finalized the repeal of the 2024 rule that required the country’s coal and new gas plants to capture most of their carbon. The EPA Administrator, Lee Zeldin, called this the largest power-sector deregulatory action…
On September 2, the UN officially gave up. Not on the climate fight. But on the target. UNEP’s new report, Limiting Overshoot, is the first UN document to treat exceeding 1.5°C not as a risk to avoid, but as a decided fact. We’re likely to cross the 1.5°C threshold within the next few years. Even in the report’s rosiest scenario, with…
Our recent conversation with Leah Stokes, political scientist and Anton Vonk Associate Professor of Environmental Politics at UC Santa Barbara, explored the improbable path that led to the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, the largest climate investment in U.S. history. We discussed how a fractured coalition regrouped to pass the law with exactly 50…
Just when you think the Administration has done everything conceivable to harm human health and damage the environment, it pulls another card out of its sleeve. This time, it is attempting to weaken an international plastic treaty by arguing that unrestricted plastic production is a matter of national security. Who knew? All that stands between…
The AI Revolution is upon us, and it’s a doozy. Whether AI becomes a boon or a bane to civilization is one of the most consequential questions and challenges of our time. From a climate perspective, the AI Revolution is not off to a good start. In their haste to meet the enormous demand for AI and their panic about…
A decade ago, coal kept Utah’s lights on. This past May, solar did. Utah is coal country. Or at least it was. Ten years ago, coal supplied up to 78% of its power. Now, for the first time ever, solar took the lead, outproducing every other source in the state and accounting for about a third of all power generated. Even better news? Coal is…
The Arctic just lost its report card.For two decades, scientists have put out an annual checkup on the Arctic, reporting on sea ice, wildlife, permafrost, and painting the full picture of a region warming about three times faster than the rest of the planet. It’s called the Arctic Report Card, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has backed it…
Our recent conversation with Bill McKibben, founder of Third Act and co-founder of 350.org, explored how the global transition to renewable energy is reshaping not just our climate future but the balance of power, peace, and independence worldwide. We discussed why the rapid electrification and solarization of the planet may be the largest human undertaking…