One prong of the climate fight involves installing so much renewable energy that fossil fuel use actually declines dramatically—a few places are…
Bank of America has its roots in California. Founded in Los Angeles in 1923, it was acquired by a San Francisco bank,…
The economy of the rich world is a massive, geological force—it plows onward with glacial power, pushing through obstacles like global pandemics;…
This will be a short post, but something important happened in London this afternoon that I imagine will go unreported in America—something…
The world—its politics, its economy, and its journalism—has trouble coping with the scale of the climate crisis. We can’t quite wrap our…
For two weeks every December, the giant global climate meeting—this year with at least 70,000 delegates, lobbyists, activists, and journalists enjoying the…
I’ve given a lot of talks about climate change over the years—that’s part of what organizers do. And I can predict with…
It got…somewhat less coverage than the imploded sub, but for me the titanic story of the last week was the truly remarkable…
Banking rarely moves quickly—there are thirty-year mortgages, and ten-year certificates of deposit, and we still talk about “banker’s hours.” But when things…
Democratic Senator Joe Manchin abandoned his own energy permitting proposal Tuesday that would have fast-tracked the federal review of energy projects, including…
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