Culture, Curiosities, & Humour
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Silicone-Based Device Generates Renewable Electricity from Snow
A research team at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is working on a device that would generate electricity from snow. -
CanadaClimate Action/"Blockadia"Climate Impacts & AdaptationCulture, Curiosities, & HumourEuropeLegal & RegulatoryOpinion & AnalysisPost-Carbon Transition
Loevinsohn: Climate Resilience Matters, But Resistance Begins in the Courts
I was on Vancouver Island this August. The haze that dimmed noon to dusk and that drove air quality off scale—the worst on the ... -
CanadaCarbon Levels & MeasurementClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsCulture, Curiosities, & HumourEnergy PoliticsFinance & InvestmentOil & GasOpinion & AnalysisPipelines/Rail TransportPost-Carbon TransitionSub-National GovernmentsTar Sands/Oil Sands
Analysis: Alberta Misses Out on Grown-Up Conversation About Fossil Transition
With Albertans voting tomorrow in the province’s 30th general election, most of the punditry and virtually every opinion poll reinforce the popular wisdom that ... -
Ridesharing Would Save 320 Megatons of Carbon by 2050
Ridesharing ranks #75 on the Drawdown list of climate solutions. It could cut atmospheric carbon dioxide by 0.32 gigatons at no cost, resulting in ... -
CanadaCitiesCulture, Curiosities, & HumourEnergy PoliticsFood SecurityHeat & TemperatureHuman Rights & MigrationIce Loss & Sea Level RiseJobsMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionPodcasts & WebinarsPost-Carbon TransitionSevere Storms & FloodingUnited States
WEBINAR SUMMARY: Connect Climate Crisis to Peoples’ Daily Lives, Pike Urges
At a time when public opinion on climate change is shifting in some “pretty positive ways”, climate communicators’ goal should be to make the ... -
Climate Action/"Blockadia"Culture, Curiosities, & HumourHuman Rights & MigrationPost-Carbon Transition
No More ‘Existential Exceptionalism’: Climate Isn’t the First Survival Crisis Communities of Colour Have Faced
The “existential exceptionalism” of assuming that climate change makes the environmental movement the first in history to stare down a threat of such great ... -
CanadaCulture, Curiosities, & HumourEnergy PoliticsEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionSub-National Governments
Orwellian Doublespeak Aside, Pricing Carbon was a Conservative Idea, Globe and Mail Notes
In a post that evokes the doublespeak of George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, the Globe and Mail editorial board calls out Ontario and federal ... -
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Lookback from 2050: NPR Essay Shows How We Got Climate Change Under Control
It’s 2050. We’ve got climate change under control. And we got the job done through mass electrification, reimagining cities, protecting forests, and changing the ... -
CanadaCarbon Levels & MeasurementCulture, Curiosities, & HumourEnergy PoliticsMedia, Messaging, & Public Opinion
Scheer Sends Unsolicited Text Messages Opposing Federal Carbon Tax
Conservative leader Andrew Scheer is resorting to spamming thousands of Canadians in four provinces with unsolicited text messages in a bid to gin up ... -
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Nearby Neighbours Prefer Wind Farms to Fossil, Nuclear or Solar Plants, Study Finds
People who actually live near operating wind farms see them as better neighbours than fossil, nuclear, or solar plants, even if they’re located in ... -
Climate & SocietyClimate Action/"Blockadia"Culture, Curiosities, & HumourJurisdictionsMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionUnited States
Climate Crisis Moves Past ‘Peak Indifference’, But Window for Public Action May Be Short
With severe weather and unsettling news “knocking on everyone’s front door,” tech writer Clive Thompson is suggesting the climate crisis may finally be moving ... -
CanadaClimate & SocietyCulture, Curiosities, & HumourEnergy PoliticsHot SpotsJobsJurisdictionsMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionSub-National GovernmentsTar Sands/Oil Sands
Two Alberta Projects Aim for Wider Dialogue on Energy Futures
With the Alberta election campaign taking on the look and feel of a brutally divisive, month-long political brawl, a couple of recent news reports ... -
Solnit Contrasts Climate Action with White Supremacists’ ‘Ideology of Separation’
In a post for The Guardian following the terrorist attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand March 15, renowned author and Oil Change ... -
BuildingsCulture, Curiosities, & HumourDemand & EfficiencyDrawdownDrive to 1.5Electricity GridMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionPathways to 1.5
Home Water Efficiency Would Save 4.61 Gigatons of Carbon by 2050
Water saving in the home places #46 on Drawdown’s list of climate solutions. It can eliminate 4.61 gigatons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 ...
