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Sorting out the wheat from the chaff of new energy ideas, while paying close attention to energy-efficiency and conservation.

The Fight against Climate Change Must Become the New Abolitionism

By Erik Curren | June 17, 2019

South Carolina Emancipation Day 1863

The planet continues to fry. Yet, America is pumping more fossil fuel than it has in decades. And the U.S. government does nothing to slow the damage. Just the opposite -- Washington is now promoting oil, gas and coal while attacking clean energy. We've fought against climate change for at least thirty years. Yet, it seems that activists have failed to reverse or even slow … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate, Energy Tagged With: Bill McKibben, Naomi Klein, Slave Labor

To Save the World, We Need to Save America First — with Patriotic Solar

By Erik Curren | February 9, 2018

Spirit of 76

One of the biggest things the world can do to slow climate change is to cut greenhouse gas emissions from burning oil, coal and natural gas. As of 2013, the energy sector accounted for 72% of global greenhouse gas emissions. So, you can stop cutting down all the trees in the Amazon or Indonesia, and replant trees across the Sahel, but it won't be anywhere near enough to slow … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy Tagged With: climate fee and dividend, James Hansen, public policy, solar power

Hurricane Harvey, We Yawn in your Direction

By Lindsay Curren | September 7, 2017

Hurricane Irma

And Irma, we don't really give a crap about you, either. Water, Water, Everywhere Twenty-seven TRILLION gallons of water dumped on Southeast Texas in six days? That's what the various reports say. And we say, "Big whoop!" Wild-Westy, pavement-obsessedy Houston essentially destroyed, molded, and steeped in a toxic stew from chemical plants gone kablooey while the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Climate, Energy Tagged With: activism, clean energy, climate change, community organizing, economy, energy policy, global climate disruption, local economy, pollution, relocalization

Despite Cheap Gas, Coming Back to Peak Oil [Infographic]

By Erik Curren | November 21, 2015

cheap gas

Yesterday, in Virginia, I filled up my gas tank for $2.75 a gallon. At that price, even old peak oilers like my wife and I hardly think about poor old King Hubbard's theory much these days. And though gas has been cheap in the U.S. for the last six months or more, I still think Hubbard was right that global oil production naturally has a point of peak … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy Tagged With: infographic, M. King Hubbert, peak oil

It’s Time Again to Worry about Heating Costs

By Erik Curren | November 6, 2015

energy savings

If you care about climate change and peak oil, you're always thinking about ways to get off of fossil fuels around the world and to save energy around your house. Home energy tweaking can become an obsession. It has for me. Just take light bulbs for example. It seems that only a few years ago, I swapped out all our old incandescents for compact fluorescents that used less … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy Tagged With: energy conservation, energy efficiency, infographic

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