energy policy
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One Weird Trick World Leaders Have to Stop Climate Change
Over the weekend, world leaders of the G20 tossed a coin into Rome’s Trevi Fountain to wish for good luck combatting climate change. By Monday, they were in Glasgow giving speeches as United Nations climate talks opened.
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Top 5 Places to Try to Escape Societal Collapse
Everybody needs a plan to survive the zombie apocalypse, climate apocalypse, financial apocalypse, or all of the above. You need your shotgun, your go-bags, and your pickup truck but mostly you just need a good place to hide out while the shit goes down — a refuge from systemic, global collapse.
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Could the World Ever Run Entirely on Renewable Energy?
This week’s question — could the world ever run entirely on renewable energy? — is shadowed by a much larger one: Namely, will politicians and powerful forces of delay like Big Oil ever allow the world to run entirely on renewable energy? For the most part, we have put that larger question aside for this…
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The U.S. Is Closer to a Zero-Carbon Grid Than It Seems
The U.S. has a lot of work to do to draw down carbon emissions. But a new report shows that when it comes to the energy grid, things are actually in better shape than researchers thought it’d be by this point.