In this week's ClimateCast: A Republican mayor pushes for a net-zero energy code, insurers place their bets on climate risk, rooftop solar makes strides in Bangladesh, and more news of the emerging clean energy economy.
This week's Years of Living Dangerously underscored the dangers we will increasingly face in the age of climate consequences--and the importance of defining the leadership we need to take us in the right direction.
In this week's ClimateCast: fossil fuels pose new risks for investors, Stanford divests from coal, China in climate talks with the U.S., prices for renewable electricity drop to parity with fossil gas, and much more.
Which has worse consequences: wrongly denying that a problem exists, or acknowledging the problem, while choosing to keep making the problem worse?
In this week’s ClimateCast: Washington Gov. Jay Inslee announces climate plan, New York utilities rethink their business model, pteropods succumbing to sour sea water, and more.
On April 29, Washington Governor Jay Inslee's Executive Order on climate change marked a big leap forward for West Coast climate leadership.
Did the producers of the Showtime docu-series Years of Living Dangerously have to conduct an Environmental Impact Statement before airing their show? They should have, because it is profoundly disruptive to the ecosystem of denial.
The second episode of Years continues a storyline in which Harrison Ford travels to Indonesia to investigate massive slash and burn deforestation projects, which are making way for gigantic, illegal palm oil plantations. The destruction of Indonesia's peat lands - the burning of both the forests' trees and carbon rich soils - now accounts for 4% of the world's total greenhouse gas emissions alone.
Royal Dutch Shell joins Trillion-Ton Communiqué calling for timetable to zero net carbon; Kitimat, B.C., rejects oil terminal; IPCC calls for climate-conserving measures to start ASAP, and more.
What if the farms, rivers, mountains and cities of the Northwest experienced a drought measured in years, rather than months?
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Governor Inslee’s proposal for a carbon tax and other state measures have made Washington a national leader in addressing climate change. This panel discussion (moderated by Steve Scher, longtime journalist and former Town Hall Scholar-in-Residence) will explore current proposals in this realm, the future of our state’s climate policy, and outline challenges that might lie ahead.
Please join us March 31st for Investing for Impact: Seattle. The Seattle Event is a full-day mini-conference designed to help investment advisors improve their knowledge around issues and impacts, and enhance the services being offered to socially conscious investors. Formerly known as BaseCamp SRI events, the theme of our regional Investing for Impact events in 2015 is Catalyzing Finance for the New Economy.
Student divestment activists are meeting with University of Washington Regents to press the case for going coal-free. The Regents could have saved a bundle by divesting when the students first asked. Will they act now?
Solar plane begins round-the-world journey, India levies coal tariff to pay for renewables, McKibben floats ‘fossil freeze,’ and more news of the week in clean energy solutions.
On Thursday, March 26, Ken Kimmell, will outline the current state of climate change as well as the prospects and impediments for success. Kimmell will place particular emphasis on U.S. policy, international negotiations, and advancements at the state level – including the successful northeastern/mid-Atlantic cap and trade program and the lessons it might offer as Washington considers its own cap and trade program.
The annual Green Sports Alliance Summit is the largest and most influential gathering for the sports community to unit around sustainability. With a special focus on engaging fans through sustainability, the 2015 program will cover the day’s most innovative ideas around professional and collegiate sports greening via a dynamic mix of leadership plenaries, keynotes, how-to workshops, town halls, story-telling sessions, networking events and venue tours.
Eiffel Tower sporting turbines; acid oceans pose threat to shellfish; coffee and whiskey fodder for biofuels; coal no longer King in China; and more news of the week in clean energy solutions.
Sometimes our collective battles against Big Oil and Big Coal seem like Frodo and Sam’s many challenges on the way to Mount Doom.
This month's Civic Cocktail will feature special guest Mayor Ed Murray as well as a panel of experts discussing Gov. Jay Inslee's proposed energy-related taxes and environmental policy initiatives in light of climate change.
Oregon's transit justice movement is critical to the success of our climate movement.
