Enlightenment Now is Steven Pinker’s latest book. Pinker was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world in 2004 and his books are regularly featured in the best-selling lists.
Energy
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
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 !
With the US and the EU lagging on climate action, India, China and South Korea are moving forward and showing leadership on this vital topic.
Climate leadership is now in Asia
Walmart made headlines as it launched its Project Gigaton, an effort to help its supply chain cut by a billion metric tons its carbon footprint.
Walmart goes gigantic, launches Project Gigaton
When one thinks of the Middle East nowadays, oil comes to mind. But with solar photovoltaic booming right now all around the region and beyond, this might not be the case in twenty or thirty years.
How the Middle East is turning to the sun for ...
Years ago when Google Earth was launched, we were all amazed at the levels of details provided. It was just very impressive. Now Google does it again with a most interesting feature: Google Project Sunroof.
How to go solar with these two super tools
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.
Global suppliers achieve significant emissions reduction
2 That’s it ! Renewable energy sources and electric vehicles are progressing so fast around the world that according to a new study coal and oil use could peak worldwide in as little as three years.