Climate change sell-out or landmark global warming fightback? Whatever your point of view, Cop28, the 28th such meeting of its kind, was not short on controversy. This year the event was held in Dubai and 84,000 people registered to attend. Critics often point to the carbon footprint of moving this many people from place to […]
The Russians are Coming
Russia will likely invade Ukraine in the coming days and this will probably set back international cooperation for years to come on critical issues such as gas supplies to Europe and the peaceful development of the Arctic
Re-Inventing Fire: some for hope for the US, China, and the World
The Rocky Mountain Institute has been working since 1982 on sustainability …
Electric cars are moving fast!
BMW’s entry into the electric car and plug-in hybrid space together with an enormous amount of activity in China may indicate the coming of age of electric vehicles …
The Increasingly Political Climate Circus (IPCC)
The 3rd working group of the the fifth IPCC assessment tells us that we will need to lower greenhouse gas emissions …
The future of Africa
In 1994, Robert Kaplan, a journalist and author who had written a prescient book about the Balkans, Balkan Ghosts, wrote an influential article in the Atlantic Monthly called The Coming Anarchy in which he painted a grim portrait of the future of Africa and much of the world. In the article, Kaplan refers to the […]
