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Evolution and Climate Change Through the Lens of Power

We can exchange polluting technologies and processes for more benign ones, but as long as population and total consumption levels continue to grow, we are locked into a paradigm that's utterly at odds with nature's limits and balances. Resources will deplete, wastes will accumulate, and other species will be crowded out of existence.

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PODCAST: Band-Aid Town
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PODCAST: Band-Aid Town

Band-Aid Town, returns to the premise of the show: the absolute batsh*t-crazy (lack of) response to the enormous, urgent challenges of the climate emergency, the energy transition, an economic system that's destroying the prospects of a viable planet, and the growing racial and wealth divide.

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When we look at the crisis rationally, the only logical response is to declare a climate emergency
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When we look at the crisis rationally, the only logical response is to declare a climate emergency

People engaged in the climate debate are often bewildered by society's lack of response. How can we ignore such overwhelming evidence of an existential threat to social and economic stability?

VIDEO: Energy, money and technology – From the lens of the superorganism
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VIDEO: Energy, money and technology – From the lens of the superorganism

During Nate Hagens' #WEP2018 keynote, he discussed how all of our lives will be influenced by how we react to the coming era of harder to extract and more costly fossil fuels that will be combined with cleaner but less concentrated energy types.

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PODCAST: Heinberg interview on HEAL Utah
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PODCAST: Heinberg interview on HEAL Utah

Richard Heinberg talks with Matt Pacenza on the HEAL Utah podcast about peak oil, a once popular theory about diminishing fossil fuel reserves which he believes will again soon rear its head, despite recent market trends.

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AUDIO: Solar and wind in Vermont with David Blittersdorf of All Earth Renewables
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AUDIO: Solar and wind in Vermont with David Blittersdorf of All Earth Renewables

David Blittersdorf's passion for renewable energy and earth-friendly technology started early.

ORIGINAL REPORTING
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Clean energy tech is outpacing politics and reshaping the global power landscape

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Scientists scramble to save climate and health data as government deletions escalate

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Trump administration slashes environmental reviews to speed fossil fuel permits

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A controversial facility that would process plastic waste to be burned in steel mills has been cancelled

A controversial facility that would process plastic waste to be burned in steel mills has been cancelled

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NRC denies full hearing on Palisades nuclear restart challenge

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Young plaintiffs in Juliana v. United States lose Supreme Court bid but say they'll continue their pursuit of climate justice

CLIMATE
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Independent bookshops are helping people fight climate despair with the right stories

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Maryland’s conservation streak shows how far a small state can go