'Alternative' energy and less energy

Michael Moore’s dreadful, ill-informed, unhelpful film

27/04/20

Author:

Elizabeth May

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April 26, 2020

During a Green Party webinar last week to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, one message from a member of the audience caught my attention:

“Michael Moore presents Planet of the Humans, a documentary that dares to say what no one else will this Earth Day — that we are losing the battle to stop climate change on planet earth because we are following leaders who have taken us down the wrong road — selling out the green movement to wealthy interests and corporate America.”

And then the question:

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Five proposals for a better world after the pandemic - DUTCH MANIFESTO

21/04/20

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Dutch academics

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Climate and Capitalism

April 20, 2020

170 Dutch academics sign manifesto for sustainable, equal and diverse societies based on international solidarity

The following statement, signed by 170 academics from eight universities in the Netherlands, has been widely reported in the Dutch press, becoming a focus for discussion on how to avoid repeating past mistakes when in planning for the future.

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Canada’s murky bailout deal for oil and gas will cost us all

21/04/20

Author:

Dianne Saxe

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National Observer

Dianne Saxe is president of Saxe Facts, and was Environmental Commissioner of Ontario from 2015 to 2019

April 21st 2020

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Social tipping dynamics for stabilizing Earth’s climate by 2050

11/03/20

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Contributed by Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, November 15, 2019 (sent for review January 22, 2019; reviewed by J. David Tabara and Jessika E. Trancik)

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States

PNAS February 4, 2020 117 (5) 2354-2365; first published January 21, 2020

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

What would happen if the world reacted to climate change like it’s reacting to the coronavirus?

10/03/20

Author:

Adele Peters

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Fast Company

[Source Images: ktsimage/iStock, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center]

Mar. 10, 2020

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Capitalism

Climate Change

Social

A Post-Growth Green New Deal

22/02/20

Author:

Riccardo Mastini

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Resilience

Image with Painting - Occupy Reno Media Committee CC BY-ND 2.0

February 18, 2020

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Climate Change

Ecosocialism

Green New Deal/LEAP

A Cold War lesson for the climate change era: Why we need a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty

06/02/20

Author:

Tzeporah Berman, Peter Newell, Matthew Stilwell

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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

February 4, 2020

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Climate Change

Global

Nuclear

Alberta Solar Farm, Canada's Biggest, Nets $500 Million From Danish Infrastructure Fund

05/02/20

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The Energy Mix

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The Energy Mix

Canada’s biggest solar farm, the 400-MW, 1,900-hectare Travers Solar Energy Project in Alberta, has received a C$500-million cash infusion from Denmark’s Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners that will allow Calgary-based Greengate Power to start construction at the site near the village of Lomond in Vulcan County.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Alberta

Canada

Realizing ‘Just Transitions’: The Struggle for Plant Conversion at GM Oshawa

03/02/20

Author:

Sam Gindin

Link:

The Bullet

February 3, 2020

On November 26, 2018, General Motors announced a number of plant closures in North America, the largest of which is in Oshawa, Ontario. The Oshawa facility, once the largest auto complex on the continent, was to end all its assembly operations by the end of 2019.