Climate Change

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – CleanTechnica reports that Spain got nearly 70% of its electricity from plants that did not generate carbon dioxide in March. The two biggest non-carbon energy sources were nuclear and wind. In recent years, the conservative government of Mariano Rajoy cut some government subsidies and other help to the […]

Desertification

The War in Yemen is Political, Ecological: Forget Sunnis and Shiites

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By Solaiman M. Fazel | (Informed Comment) As the Saudi led coalition closes its second week of bombardment in Yemen, the dominant narrative in the mainstream media depicts this conflict as another episode of the Shi’a-Sunni sectarianism that has now spread into the southwestern region of the Arabian Peninsula. Representing the warfare in terms of […]

Climate Change

Scotland: Outer Hebrides Island co-op buys Wind Turbine, sells Energy

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Triodos Bank, UK | — “As the southernmost inhabited islands of the Outer Hebrides in Scotland Barra and Vatersay bear the brunt of whatever weather the Atlantic throws at them. Not that the locals mind with a community owned turbine harnessing the gales to generate electricity; the income generated from the sale of the electricity […]

Climate Change

How Climate Change is already affecting Human Well-Being

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EPA | – “This video provides an introduction to the issue of climate change. The narration discusses the causes of modern-day climate change, signs that the climate is already changing, and how climate change affects the environment and human well-being. It concludes with information about how individuals and society at large can take steps to […]

Barack Obama

Obama to Train 75,000 Solar Workers in 5 Yrs, Including Veterans

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Barack Obama | (Whitehouse.gov) – “President Obama traveled to the Hill Air Force Base in Salt Lake City, Utah to discuss his initiative to connect veterans with jobs in the burgeoning solar energy industry. April 3, 2015.” The White House: “President Obama Speaks on Jobs in America’s Solar Energy”

Climate Change

Half of all new Energy world-wide last year was Green

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By Sean Buchanan | – ROME, Mar 31 2015 (IPS) – Driven by solar and wind, world investments in renewable energy reversed a two-year dip last year, brushing aside the challenge from sharply lower oil prices and registering a 17 percent leap over the previous year to stand at 270 billion dollars. These investments helped […]

Climate Change

Climate War on Planet Protested at U of Michigan 50 Yrs after 1st anti-Vietnam War Teach-in

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Science for the People | – “This event marks the 50th anniversary of the nation’s first teach-in on the war in Vietnam, held at the University of Michigan on March 24-25, 1965. Our new teach-in is focused on one of the most pressing issues of our time: the escalating war against the planet represented by […]

Climate Change

ISIL, Yemen, Syria: Drought, Climate Change and new Wars

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By David Reed | (Foreign Policy in Focus) – Natural resource scarcity poses a far broader challenge to prosperity and national security than traditional military threats. The U.S. intelligence and security communities grapple on a daily basis with the pressing reality that natural resource scarcity and global climate change pose direct threats to U.S. prosperity […]

Climate Change

Antarctic Ice Melting Faster than Ever in “Unstoppable Decline”

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By Laurence Padman, Fernando Paolo and Helen Amanda Fricker | (The Conversation) Ask people what they know about Antarctica and they usually mention cold, snow and ice. In fact, there’s so much ice on Antarctica that if it all melted into the ocean, average sea level around the entire world would rise about 200 feet, […]