Chloregy

We’ve Hit the Limits of a Finite Earth

Hit the limits? Hmm…I’m not sure, not when each day the sun provides the earth with a daily dose of energy 15,000 times greater than the energy humans currently use. But the biggest drawback of the “we’ve-hit-the-limits” idea isn’t just the potential it encourages us to miss. The problem is that it ...

Ready, Set, Re-Frame! A Conversation with Frances Moore Lappé about EcoMind

I took the quiz -- have you? It’s the EcoMind Quiz devised by Frances Moore Lappé to go with her new book,  EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We Want .

The quiz tests your assumptions about what it takes to save our planet and, Lappé hopes, will get you thinking about alternate wa...

Carbon Emissions’ Friendly Skies

The airline industry is responsible for 4.9% of all human-caused climate change worldwide, but 26 non-EU countries are campaigning against EU aviation carbon caps. If they succeed, they will destroy a critical mechanism in the battle against global warming. It was once said of the battle to fight cl...

Organic Farmers Fight For Survival Against Monsanto

It was standing room only in a courtroom in Federal District Court in lower Manhattan on January 31. The family farmers and supporters gathered were a little like David going up against Goliath, hoping for a green light in pursuing a landmark case against the giant pesticide and GMO seed company, Mo...

Upset with Carbon Offset?

Yes. It is perfectly understandable that many passionate people working in development and sustainability remain downbeat about the glacial-speed of progress to arrive at a meaningful global deal to tackle climate chaos.  Yet at the...

Climate and Energy: Time for Policy to Get Practical

In the world of climate change and energy, 2012 just might be the year when policy gets practical.

The transition to a low-carbon energy future won’t be simple, but its dimensions are well known. Municipalities have been developing low-carbon strategies since the late 1980s and discussing them on the...

The Climate Extremists

Nowadays, no hurricane or heat wave passes without a politician or activist claiming it as evidence of the need for a global climate deal, like the one sought at the latest round of unsuccessful negotiations in Durban, South Africa. But such claims merit close scrutiny.

Occupy COP 17: Why The Climate Talks Will Fail And What To Do About It

With the climate talks in Durban seemingly headed for a train wreck, an innovative project is developing a new legal international framework for protecting the planetary ecosystem that could just be the most important legal initiative of our age.

The climate talks had not even started in Durban when

Striking the Right Balance For True Prosperity

I last wrote about a talk given by Juliet Schor at the New Economics Institute questioning whether profit-driven economic growth could be a solution to economic problems, even when that growth promoted the green economy.

Then I had a chance to talk with design engineer Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mount...