A reflection on climate change and the daunting but exciting task at hand in energy, transportation, industry, food production and so on.
Climate change
A lot of news and noise surround electric cars but another vehicle is also benefitting largely from elecrification: buses. Running not for just a little bit in the morning and in the evening, they run all day, and sometimes, even part of the night. Tranporting not just one or two […]
Electric buses are a solution to our cities’ worst problems
Steven Pinker's latest book, Enlightenment Now, misses the mark on climate change and plastic pollution. And this is a problem.
Book review: Enlightenment Now, by Steven Pinker
2 Five sustainable solutions exists for cities running out of water: conserving the resource, fixing leaking pipes, reclaiming water, desalination and biogas generation.
Sustainable solutions as cities are running out of water
A selection of climate and energy news as COP23 is taking place in Bonn, Germany.
Energy news as COP23 is taking place in Germany
Climate change can be fixed by switching from cars to bikes, planting trees in our cities, tapping into energy efficiency's potential and ditching coal and natural gas for solar and wind. Learn out more in this article.
Four cheap solutions to climate change
1 While it is undeniable that we are ramping up our actions against climate change, it is hard to deny that global warming is getting scarier every week. Here is a quick selection of horror stories I have collected this summer.
Climate change horror stories from around the world
I saw last week An Inconvenient Sequel by Al Gore, the sequel of 2006 hit documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. I have mix feelings about it.
Film review: An inconvenient sequel
A review of Climate of Hope, written by Carl Pope and Michael Bloomberg. Published this year it offers a comprehensive look on climate solutions.
Book review: Climate of hope
2 A look at the previous months work, my capstone project for a local grocery store and my sustainable investing class.
Now a sustainable MBA graduate, for hire !
3 There are still reasons to cheer in our fight against climate change. According to the respected International Energy Agency’s new report, global greenhouse gases emissions from energy remained flat in 2016 while the global economy grew by 3.1 percent.
Global emissions from energy are flat. Now what ?
To a new report, the suppliers of 89 large multinationals have cut their emissions by 434 million tonnes of carbon dioxide last year alone.