Solar Canals

Solar Canals

In the contest between renewables and fossil fuels, ​​​​innovation remains renewable energy’s greatest advantage. Fossil fuels may have the advantage of being entrenched, but it is slow to adapt. One idea that has demonstrated this strength is solar canals. In the contest between renewables and fossil fuels, ​​​​innovation remains renewable energy’s greatest advantage. Fossil fuels…

Confirmed: Conservation Works!

A mammoth study came out last month, in the journal Science, with some very uplifting conclusions about conservation. The goal was to figure out whether conservation efforts are actually effective at reducing global biodiversity loss, slowing its decline, and protecting endangered habitats and species. The study wasn’t limited to any one area of conservation. It…

A Solar Power Revolution in Africa?

Solar use in Africa

As solar power becomes increasingly accessible, the only resistance will come from the entrenched powers who stand to benefit from fossil fuel power. In contrast to the titans of industry from America and Europe, private firms in Africa are exploiting the instability of national power grids to further push the adoption of solar panels and…

A Green Solution

A Green Solution

Reality is often unrealistic. Sometimes events unfold that, if they appeared in a film or TV production, would be mocked by audiences as contrite or heavy-handed. Fiction has to make sense, whereas reality can do whatever it wants and you don’t get a say in the matter. So I find it far from unexpected that one…

Health Benefits of Electric Vehicles

I doubt it needs to be said that the large use of fossil fuels in vehicles is a major cause of climate change or that electric vehicles will greatly help to ease the impact. But it might need to be said that electric vehicles have some other benefits that will have a more short-term impact….

Keeping Up with Progress

History became quite a wild ride about 300 years ago. In a scant handful of centuries, we went from a couple million mostly illiterate subjects who spent the majority of their lives working out in the fields to appease their divinely appointed feudal overlords to a couple billion perfectly (somewhat) literate citizens who spend the…

7 September: International Day of Clean Air

Clean air illustration

That gross layer of yellow smog that you sometimes see lying over the city is destroying your health and the health of the planet. On 7 September we observe the International Day of Clean Air, a day to remember how much we need our blue skies and to focus on how we can get them back.

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