Transition Voice

The magazine on peak oil and the Transition movement

  • Home
  • Books
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Politics
  • Spirit
You are here: Home / Archives for solar power

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

Trumped and Stumped: A Cure for Political Polarization?

By Erik Curren | September 5, 2016

Donald Trump

A book called I'm Right and You're an Idiot: The Toxic State of Public Discourse and How to Clean It Up sounds like it was written just for the 2016 US presidential race. The book is not about the race per se. It doesn't say anything about Donald Trump and the only Clinton it mentions is Bill. But the book does say a lot about the polarization in American politics that has … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Politics Tagged With: Adam Kahane, climate activism, James Hoggan, Jill Stein, solar power

2014 biggest year ever for solar, but oil price threat looms

By Erik Curren | March 23, 2015

oil crisis

In 2014, record low prices for solar panels fueled a solar boom. The U.S. alone installed 30% more solar photovoltaic capacity than in 2013, making last year the biggest ever for solar PV, according to the 2014 Year-in-Review Solar Market Insight report from GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association. Industry analyst Tam Hunt argues that in a few years, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy Tagged With: commodities, oil price, silicon, solar power

If solar has gotten so cheap, why isn’t there more of it?

By Erik Curren | February 27, 2015

Some people who worry about peak oil like to point out that renewable energy won't save us. That is, given the amount of fossil fuels that the world uses today, it would take an unrealistically large increase in the amount of renewables available now to make up the difference as oil, natural gas and coal start to deplete. So we might as well resign ourselves now to a future … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy Tagged With: peak oil, solar growth, solar power

Shameless birthday fundraising plug

By Lindsay Curren | May 10, 2013

Today is Transition Voice publisher Erik Curren's birthday. I thought that was reason enough to make one of our occasional plugs for donations to help support the work at Transition Voice. Talk about one of the hardest working guys in the news business. In spite of the fact that Erik has already entered the new economy, holding down five different jobs simultaneously — he's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Transition Tagged With: 31 Reasons to Support Transition Voice, peak oil, solar power, Stars of Peak Oil

Next Page »

Most Popular Stories

  • Earth shelters: Building an eco-friendly bunker
  • Five Bummer Problems that Make Societies Collapse
  • Farewell to empire
  • American kids in the Age of Oil: 'Economically worthless but emotionally priceless'
  • The daily grind, Amish style
  • Morality in the sphere of education
  • Still positive after all these years, Tony Robbins, then and now
  • A “Gospel of Wealth” for the 21st century
  • Popular holistic health site veers into climate science denial
  • Reassessing Arctic oil
  • Home
  • Books
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Politics
  • Spirit
  • About us
  • Resources
  • Contact

© 2021 Transition Voice · Web design by Curren Media Group · Log in