Do Inhale
Every day I supply oxygen for up to 4 people. Don't you think I'm worth saving? pic.twitter.com/v4OoFXR3mi
— Pete Fillery (@petefillery) December 30, 2018
December 31, 2018
The Story Of Year
Nothing else measures up to the rising toll + enormous dangers of climate change
December 28, 2018
Science At Work: The Climate 'Domino Effect'
Researchers seek an understanding of how climate change creates cascading impacts on agriculture, energy, transportation + other human systems
Trump Imperils the Planet
Do you agree with this New York Times editorial?
December 27, 2018
Washington Steps Up On Climate Action
The District of Columbia advances bold climate action legislation
Fuggedabout A Carbon Tax
True or false? Strong building codes, clean energy requirements + fuel efficiency standards for vehicles have more potential for political acceptance + practical impact than a carbon tax
December 26, 2018
You Are Not Alone
12 communities fighting on the front lines of climate action now
December 24, 2018
Help Wanted: Renewable Energy Advocate
NRDC is hiring a Renewable Energy Specialist for its Eastern regional Climate + Clean Energy team. The advocate will shape, advance + accelerate renewable energy deployment in priority Eastern states + help leverage lessons learned there across the country + at the federal level
Take Note: 2018
A climate journalist's Year-in-Review
Our Selfie
”The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth.” - Jim Lovell, 50 years ago today pic.twitter.com/x7aYKgV08y
— Ed Hawkins (@ed_hawkins) December 24, 2018
December 21, 2018
Trouble In Mind
When planners look ahead 25 years, what do they see as the NY metro area's biggest challenges?
The Old Guard Supports The New Green Wave
Former Congress member Waxman spells out why he's a supporter of the Green New Deal
December 20, 2018
Welcome Back Tibbetts Brook
Plans are afloat to bring Tibbetts Brook in the Bronx back into the daylight
France: It's Not The Climate, It's The Politics
France's Yellow Vest protest reveal a lot about domestic politics +the economy, but not much about public opinion on carbon taxes
Billionaires Back Battery Storage
Looks who's investing big bucks in molten salt energy storage technology
Act For The Climate - Vote
The ballot box is a power tool for extracting climate denying politicians from office
December 19, 2018
Australia: Move Over Coal
2018 is banner year for renewable energy in Australis, with $20 billion in the pipeline to create 14.6 gigawatts of power + deliver 13,000 direct jobs across 80 projects
Know Your Building's Energy Appetite And GHG Emissions
Is your NYC building an energy sipper or a slurper?
Tick, Tick, Tick...
"This huge spread of possible futures —from very bad to very good...create such powerful feelings of urgency and disorientation" Kim Stanley Robinson
Quote Of The Day, Decade
"To be aware of the wonder and enchantment of the world, its astonishing creatures and complex interactions, and to be aware simultaneously of the remarkably rapid destruction of almost every living system, is to take on a burden of grief that is almost unbearable." — Georg Monibot, writer
NY MIA From Bold Transportation System Plan
9 northeast states + Washington DC gear up to create a climate-smart, economy-boosting regional transportation system proposal, but NY's not part of it despite significant support
December 18, 2018
Building Passive House High Rises
Experienced professionals share lessons leaned about Passive House high rise construction in NYC
Act On Climate For Job Gains
Climate action is not a job loser, by 2030 it will be a worldwide winner
0 x 40 in NY
By 2040, Governor Cuomo pledges that NY's electric power system will be carbon-free, stay tuned for details in 2019
December 17, 2018
You Must Remember This
C40 Chair and Mayor of Paris @Anne_Hidalgo said it best: "Cities are ready to lead." Read more about why city climate action will be critical to limiting the worst impacts of climate change and ensuring a better, safer future 👉 https://t.co/poTkwvKEyb #Cities4Climate
— C40 Cities (@c40cities) December 17, 2018
Lessons From California for Global Climate Talks
As the COP24 climate talks in Poland struggled to end with a to-do list, California strides forward on its climate agenda
Pension Divestment Pressure
Fossil fuel divestment activists will be pressing NY Comptroller diNapoli to rid the state's pension fund of fossil fuel assets
December 14, 2018
Not Big Enough For The News
"When flooding occurs in a small town or just part of a city, it doesn’t register like a big disaster does, according to the first-ever nationwide assessment." https://t.co/EQTh39ZaAP
— Center for NYC Neighborhoods (@CNYCN) December 14, 2018
COP24: Expect Some Kind Of Deal
COP 24 in Kantowice, Poland is likely to conclude with a climate 'rulebook', but it's unlikely to lead to climate security
Endangerment Evidence
After a decade on the books, 'endangerment finding' evidence keeps mounting to support this keystone of US climate policy
Controversial Flood-Proofing In Miami
Climate-proofing projects are just as controversial as any other urban construction work
A Rose Is A Rose Is A ...
Solar Tariffs Dim PV Industry
Trump's tariffs spread gloom for US utility-scale solar power markets
December 13, 2018
Hopes For Climate Rulebook Fade
Writing a rulebook for how to cut GHG's, the key goal of the COP24 climate meeting in Kantowice, Poland may well not happen
Annual RGGI Report
How's RGGI doing? Here's the newest annual report from the 9 state Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a cooperative effort to reduce emissions of CO2, a major greenhouse gas
Worries Over Germany's Energy Transition
Why has Germany's drive to decarbonize stalled + can it be re-energized?
Climate Change/Presidency 2020
How climate change, usually an election also-ran for voters, could become a potent factor in the next Presidential race
Minneapolis Uses Zoning As A Power Tool
To tackle climate change, racial segregation + the lack of affordable housing, Minneapolis will eliminate zoning that allows only single-family homes
0 x 50 In NY
Meet the Climate + Community Protection Act, a bill in the NY State legislature that would set a zero-carbon emission goal for the state's' electric power supply + pathways, including job standards to convert to an all-renewables system, but will it have legislative legs?
Don't Blame It All On Trump
If climate action falters + fails, it's not just the US President's fossil-fuel loving, fact- denialisms at work, per John Kerry
December 12, 2018
UK: Home To Greenest Football Club (a/k/a Soccer In The US)
This is the world's greenest football club - and you've probably never even heard of it https://t.co/XLHZWWtjH8 #football #environment pic.twitter.com/9umc8HNgpI
— World Economic Forum (@wef) December 12, 2018
Sizing Up The Green New Deal
Is youthful idealism v tempered pragmatism a useful way to analyze the Green New Deal movement?
2018: Climate News, Not Silence
Here's a multi-media recap of 2018, quite a year in climate news
May The Congestion Force Be With You
Buying electric buses + cleaner air would be two big wins for New Yorkers if Albany ok's congestion pricing
A Lot Of Mouth But Not Much Money
Funding for clean energy R+D is way below national pledges
December 11, 2018
Opinion: If, Then
If the US won't do what's needed on climate change, then China must. (Check out Readers' Comments)
What Happens In The Arctic Impacts You
The influence of Arctic amplification on mid-latitude summer circulationhttps://t.co/mcDES7lDmZ
— Doing Things Differently (@dtdchange) August 22, 2018
HT @grhluna25 #climatechange
Future impacts from extreme weather are likely to be most pronounced in summer pic.twitter.com/puYJNLJwPk
L.A. Mayor Talks The Climate Talk...
...but driving hasn't gone down while Metro transit ridership has dropped during Mayor Garcetti's tenure at City Hall
Amazon Meets NYC Infrastructure
NYC's wastewater infrastructure can handle the added volume of a Amazon HQ2, except on rainy days when it's already overwhelmed
December 10, 2018
Yes We Can
Paris to Pittsburgh, a Bloomberg-sponsored National Geographic documentary, shows how cities can lead on global climate action
Kantiwice Impressions
One visitor's views on COP24, the UN climate conference + it's host city, Kantowice, Poland
Billions More For NY Sustainable Investments
NY's Comptroller announces an additional $3 billion for the State's Common Retirement Fund’s Sustainable Investment Program
Net Zero-Energy Makes Dollars and Sense
Even with cold midwest winters the payback time for spending money on building net-zero energy homes is a proven fact
Climate Legal Eagles - Keep At It
Watch the Lisa Heinzerling lecture on the role of climate litigation during the Trump Era
This Is Not A Fish Tale
The path we’re on—of warming up the ocean with greenhouse gases and depleting the oxygen inventory of the ocean—is a path the Earth has been on before. Last time, it led to the Great Dying. https://t.co/guzZdWm19W pic.twitter.com/siuLrMcpwN
— BulletinOfTheAtomic (@BulletinAtomic) December 10, 2018
Saving Europe And The Climate
Thomas Picketty's plan to revitalize the European Union with a “new, sovereign European assembly capable of producing a set of fundamental public goods + services,” paid for by four new taxes, including a carbon tax set at a minimum of 30 euros per metric ton
December 07, 2018
MTA's New Signals
A top signaling expert is coming on board at the MTA to fix the subway's ailing system
Reasons For Climate Cheer
Signs of low-carbon cheer (sort of) based on an understanding of the business cycle, not the Paris Climate Accord
Tuscon's Struggle With Extreme Heat Gap
What's working, what's not in Tuscon Arizona programs to ease the impact of extreme heat on all its residents?
Schumer - Green Upgrades For Infrastructure
Senator Schumer urges the President to work with Congress for a climate friendly, clean energy modernization of the nation's infrastructure
December 06, 2018
To-Do's For New Enviro Leader
Julie Tighe, the new President of the NY League of Conservation Voters, has a lot on her mind + on her to-do list
New Zealand: Climate Change Is Top Security Threat
Climate change, not China, is cited in a defense policy report as the New Zealand's top security threat
Protecting Against Climate Displacement
In Miami, climate change is a force for displacement by gentrification, what can be done?
On The Road To Cap/Trade For Cars
Northeast states could be close to an agreement on a regional program to control emissions in the transportation sector. https://t.co/gqdLT7mWz9
— Bloomberg Environment (@environment) December 6, 2018
Why They Stay
Why do home owners + local government insist on standing pat in one California inundation-threatened sea-side town?
Imagine
For babies born in 2018, imagine the implications of a Green New Deal when they graduate from college
December 05, 2018
Picture Of The Day
“If the environment were a bank it would have been saved by now.”#ActOnClimate #cdnpoli #bcpoli #NoKXL #StopKM #WaterIsLife #COP24 pic.twitter.com/df3vgBZCbJ
— Mike Hudema (@MikeHudema) December 5, 2018
Warning: This News May Cause Palpitations
Like a speeding freight train is the headline for 2018's rise in global carbon emissions
Warning: This News May Cause Palpitations
"Like a 'speeding freight train'" is the headline for 2018's rise in global GHG emissions - find out what are the biggest culprits
December 04, 2018
World Bank Lending For Climate
Between 2021-2025, the World Bank will provide $200 billion to fund climate adaptation + resiliency projects
Solar Installations Sag
Although US solar installations slumped 9% last year in the wake os Trump's 30% tariff on imported panels, the industry predicts brighter times as the tariffs drop to 15%
Help Wanted: Campaign Director/Communications Assoc.
Harlem-based WEACT for Environmental Justice is hiring a National Campaign Director + a Communications Associate for its Washington, DC office
Together, City Council And Citizens Can Be Climate Bold
Today takes us another step closer to fighting the effects of #climatechange in NYC. The environmental protection committee will hear my bill with @NYCSpeakerCoJo and many of my colleagues to reduce carbon emissions from large buildings pic.twitter.com/kH4s2xAajZ
— Costa Constantinides (@Costa4NY) December 4, 2018
December 03, 2018
Climate Dropout Clout
Consider the 'Trump Effect' on the trajectory of the Paris Climate Accord + international commitment to climate action
Demonstrating For A Green New Deal
A lot of New Yorkers outside @SenSchumer’s office urging him to step up for a #GreenNewDeal by making sure the ranking Democrat on the Energy&Natural Resources Committee refuses fossil fuel money pic.twitter.com/ONZApEiJKB
— matthew miles goodrich (@mmilesgoodrich) December 3, 2018
Climate Adaptation Planning Uptake
A downbeat report on the state of climate adaption, but with insight on pathways forward
Meet The NY Green Bank
What is the NY Green Bank + what does it do?
Learning From TMI
Remember the near melt-down at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant? Does it answer questions about what to do with nuclear energy now?
Mid-Atlantic Homes Will Get Soaked
From Philly to the Jersey shore, homes at grave risk of storm damage + neighborhoods at risk of chronic nuisance flooding, expect flood insurance costs to soar
Reflections
How many warnings will it take? Global emissions have reached “historic levels” and are showing no signs of peaking: https://t.co/KykREzgkaD pic.twitter.com/zblOsQD594
— BulletinOfTheAtomic (@BulletinAtomic) December 3, 2018