Time for a New Politics of Sustainability
The major defining feature of politics in our current day and age is the division between the political left and right, with the political spectrum popularly being perceived as a progression from...
View ArticleIs the World Bank Destroying Traditional Farming by Enabling Corporate Land...
A new report from an independent policy think tank raises questions about the harmful effects on smallholders and traditional farmers by the World Bank’s country ranking system, which is claimed to...
View ArticleEducating Students for the World of Tomorrow
It is a question which is of concern to all high school students and to all parents of teenage children. What will I do after school? For some the choice will be obvious; they will have a desire to...
View ArticleUnderstanding The CBD Ecosystem Approach
The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is an international convention for protecting the diversity of life on Earth. As opposed to treaties focusing on individual species or biomes, this...
View ArticleAWEA: Investing in Wind Energy Requires Stable PTC Policy
Strong investing and rising growth in the wind energy industry has been delivering homegrown energy resources to fuel the American economy, and put more people back to work. With help from the federal...
View Article11 Senators to EPA: Strengthen The Clean Power Plan
Eleven U.S. Senators sent a letter on Dec. 9 to EPA chief Gina McCarthy outlining ways in which the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan should be strengthened. At present, the EPA Clean...
View ArticleThe Future of Solar Electricity: Grid-Connected vs Off-Grid
(Originally published on SolarLove.org) The future in which power company customers transitioning to solar electricity generation can choose to either maintain grid connection or cost-effectively...
View ArticleHow Much Will Carbon Cost? – The Million Dollar Question
Policy makers and corporate executives alike are interested in quantifying just how much a tonne of carbon dioxide will cost in the future. While it’s intuitive why policy makers, tasked with securing...
View ArticleSustainable Development – What It Really Means
Sustainable development is a holistic approach to decision-making and considers not only the economics of an action but also the social and environmental effects. It can sometimes be misconstrued as...
View ArticleITC Investment Tax Credit 5-Year Extension Supported in “New Energy for...
Originally published on SolarLove.org Announcing its support for legislation extending the Investment Tax Credit (ITC) for both residential and commercial solar installations, the Solar Energy...
View ArticleHow The Market Created Lobster Mac And Cheese
The Canadian lobster industry has experienced price volatility in recent years due to an unexpectedly high volume of lobster. In Canada, environmental regulation was so successful at protecting the...
View ArticleIn Spain, Solar Storage Costs More Than Nuclear Spillage
Originally published on Planetsave.com Storing solar energy in a battery in Spain is more criminal than spilling radioactive waste. That’s the implied message written between the lines of a recently...
View ArticleEffects of Global Warming on Humans – Based on the 2015 IPCC AR5
Originally published on Planetsave.com Not only posing significant risks for Earth’s natural systems, the effects of global warming on humans and human systems have only recently begun receiving the...
View ArticleUnderstanding The CBD Ecosystem Approach
The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is an international convention for protecting the diversity of life on Earth. As opposed to treaties focusing on individual species or biomes, this...
View ArticleAWEA: Investing in Wind Energy Requires Stable PTC Policy
Strong investing and rising growth in the wind energy industry has been delivering homegrown energy resources to fuel the American economy, and put more people back to work. With help from the federal...
View Article11 Senators to EPA: Strengthen The Clean Power Plan
Eleven U.S. Senators sent a letter on Dec. 9 to EPA chief Gina McCarthy outlining ways in which the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan should be strengthened. At present, the EPA Clean...
View ArticleThe Future of Solar Electricity: Grid-Connected vs Off-Grid
(Originally published on SolarLove.org) The future in which power company customers transitioning to solar electricity generation can choose to either maintain grid connection or cost-effectively...
View ArticleHow Much Will Carbon Cost? – The Million Dollar Question
Policy makers and corporate executives alike are interested in quantifying just how much a tonne of carbon dioxide will cost in the future. While it’s intuitive why policy makers, tasked with securing...
View ArticleSustainable Development – What It Really Means
Sustainable development is a holistic approach to decision-making and considers not only the economics of an action but also the social and environmental effects. It can sometimes be misconstrued as...
View ArticleITC Investment Tax Credit 5-Year Extension Supported in “New Energy for...
Originally published on SolarLove.org Announcing its support for legislation extending the Investment Tax Credit (ITC) for both residential and commercial solar installations, the Solar Energy...
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