It’s been nearly a year since Alberta Premier Rachel Notley announced an ambitious set of policies to cap oil sands emissions, phase out coal-fired power
The fossil fuel divestment movement argues that where we invest our money either helps move toward a cleaner future or props up polluting industries that
After a yearlong battle, lawmakers in Massachusetts voted to adopt a sweeping omnibus renewable energy bill that puts the state at the forefront of offshore
Over the past five years, and growing dramatically leading up to and post-Paris COP 21, a movement of institutional and individual investors representing more than
Two guys walk into a bar…and go on to create Southwest Airlines. According to this durable snippet of too-good-to-fact-check corporate lore, the company’s founders drew
While land-based wind-powered capacity has boomed across the nation’s midsection, where a total of 45 gigawatts is now installed across 11 states from Minnesota to
American aerosplace giant Lockheed Martin recently announced that it has secured a letter of intent to sell 12 hybrid airships to Straightline Aviation for about
Sources: China National Coal Association, National Energy Administration, CoalSwarm, National Bureau of Statistics, Frankfurt School and United Nations Environment Program, Greenpeace.
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has a storied history of denouncing people and things he disagrees with as “disgusting,” including Rosie O’Donnell, John Kasich’s
Kermit the Frog famously said it’s not easy being green. Today, it might be easier being green than being a CEO in the oil business.
Until about eight months ago, rolling blackouts were a common occurrence in South Africa, where the national power grid is notorious for being unreliable and
When mining financier Robert Friedland took the stage at the World Copper Conference in Chile earlier this year, he outlined the future of mining in
Colville Lake, a First Nation community about 50 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle, was quiet for a few hours in late February when, for
Originally published on Ensia A roomful of materials scientists, gathered at UCLA for a recent conference on “grand challenges in construction materials,” slowly passed a
Green buildings are attractive to owners for a few reasons. They’re great for reducing one’s carbon footprint and improving public relations, but they also offer
Stuart Lombard had no obvious reason to leave his job as a venture capitalist in 2007. Times were good. As managing partner with J.L. Albright
When I moved to Berlin as a graduate student in the fall of 1998, there was an unfamiliar smell and thickness to the city air.
Carbon Engineering’s pilot plant in Squamish, British Columbia, sucks carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. But that’s only the first step. The company will soon
We are in the middle of a long-term global transition away from fossil fuels and toward more efficient, renewable-based energy systems. This shift will deliver
As refrigerators go, so goes the kitchen. At least we hope so, as fridges are the great success story of appliance efficiency standards. The former
Originally published on Ensia. On a Wednesday in late February 2010, Hewlett-Packard hosted an unusual training session at its offices in Fort Collins, Colorado. The
Ford Motor Company revealed plans last week to spend $4.5 billion (U.S.) on electric vehicle (EV) development and introduce 13 new models by 2020. This investment
German utility RWE announced plans in December to spin off a subsidiary company housing its healthier renewable, grid and retail energy assets. Plans to split
Starting later this month, the world’s nations will convene in traumatized Paris to hammer out commitments to slow down global climate change. Any long-term solution
On April 30, Tesla’s Elon Musk took the stage in California to introduce the company’s Powerwall battery energy storage system, which he hopes will revolutionize
Toronto-based SkyPower plans to develop 1,000 megawatts of solar projects in Kenya over five years as part of a four-phase agreement with the Kenyan Ministry
Employee engagement, a term coined in the early 1990s to help measure satisfaction in the workplace, has taken on new meaning in the digital age.
Climate change is no longer tomorrow’s problem. This year alone, heat waves in India and Pakistan each killed more than a thousand people. The rainforest
Please, PUT a global price on carbon. That’s pretty much what six of Europe’s biggest oil and gas companies said in a joint letter sent
One of my earliest memories is of being wildly bucked by a woolly sheep, hanging on with everything my scrawny arms could muster before being
