Low-carbon economy

What’s the Best Way to Decarbonize Your Home?

Homes are a huge source of carbon pollution. Here's how to clean up yours and advocate for policies to help others do the same.

Climate Change Brian Kahn

Top 5 Places to Try to Escape Societal Collapse

If things really goes south, some researchers have concluded these are the places where you have the highest likelihood of survival.

Tech News Lucas Ropek

Ban Mansions

Let's be real. The rich are never going to clean up their homes on their own.

Climate Change Dharna Noor

9 Quotes From Republican Politicians Next to Their State’s Damning Heat Graphs

Some charts of how fast we're warming with totally unrelated quotes.

Climate Change Molly Taft

The Insidiousness of Wiggle Words

When it comes to the climate crisis, the G7's statement says nothing of substance—just like everyone else.

Climate Change Brian Kahn

Exxon’s Newest Activist Investor Is a ‘Space Cowboy’

Exxon announced Wednesday that a third new member has been appointed to the company’s board, following a week of vote counting after the company was caught by surprise by a shareholder insurrection last week led by activist investor Engine No. 1. The new board member, Alexander “Andy” Karsner, currently works as a “Space Cowboy” for…

Energy Molly Taft

Children of Shell Employees Sure Seem to Be Embarrassed by Their Parents

At Shell’s annual general meeting on Tuesday, a company executive told a heartwarming story. Shortly before taking the role six years ago, the fossil fuel giant’s outgoing chairman, Charles Holliday, said he had a conversation with one of the company’s employees. “I asked him the very simple question: ‘In three weeks I’ll become chair of…

Earther Dharna Noor

The Fight to Define What ‘Clean’ Energy Means

After four years of backsliding under former President Donald Trump, the U.S. is back to increasing its climate ambitions. But there’s a fight brewing over what exactly constitutes zero-carbon energy, showing that challenges decarbonization faces. President Joe Biden has proposed a clean electricity standard to reduce emissions, and various proposals and bills would create one…

Climate Change Dharna Noor

Joe Biden Is Not Coming for Your Poorly Cooked Hamburger

Folks, Joe Biden is bringing big government into the kitchen. Your kitchen. Sleepy Joe, he’s coming for your sweet, beautiful meat. Your fridge, it’s going to be full of kale after Biden is done cleaning out your delicious hamburgers and Angus sirloin. Filet mignon? It’s gonna be a thing of the past in Biden’s America.…

Climate Change Brian Kahn

Solving the Climate Crisis Hinges on the U.S. and China Cooperating

The U.S. and China are the world’s two biggest greenhouse gas polluters, together constituting some 40% of the world’s carbon emissions. On Sunday, leaders from the two countries announced that they’re willing to work together to enact urgent climate policy. In a joint statement, U.S. special climate envoy John Kerry and China’s chief climate negotiator…

Climate Change Dharna Noor

The U.S. Is Closer to a Zero-Carbon Grid Than It Seems

The U.S. has a lot of work to do to draw down carbon emissions. But a new report shows that when it comes to the energy grid, things are actually in better shape than researchers thought it’d be by this point. The analysis from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory takes a look…

Climate Change Dharna Noor

Why Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Needs to Go Way Bigger

On Wednesday, President Joe Biden unveiled a plan to make a $2.25 trillion investment in the nation’s infrastructure. By the yardstick of recent history, the long-awaited infrastructure plan is big. His administration said the $2.25 trillion investment is the largest government spending program the U.S. has seen since the expansion of the space program in…

Climate Change Dharna Noor

Big Oil’s New Carbon Tax Stance Is Just Its Latest Trick to Keep Polluting

The American Petroleum Institute, the largest lobbying arm for the oil and gas industry, said this week it supports a carbon tax. The response from Republicans, which the group rains money down on, has been less-than-welcoming. The GOP’s top climate-conscious star in the House called it “a cop-out approach to appease the radical left.” That…

Earther Molly Taft

Warren Buffet and Other Deadbeats’ Climate Commitments Are Missing the Mark

What’s really in a big corporation’s pledges to cut emissions, anyway? For a lot of those promises, not much, a new investor-led report finds. An exhaustive benchmark analysis of the climate pledges of nearly 160 global companies released Monday digs into the specifics of some of these carbon-cutting and/or net-zero promises, finding that no company…

Climate Change Molly Taft

Covering California’s Canals With Solar Panels Could Solve Two Crises at Once

A new analysis finds that covering water canals in California with solar panels could save a lot of water and money while generating renewable energy. Doing so would generate between 20% and 50% higher return on investment than would be achieved by building those panels on the ground. The paper, published Thursday in Nature Sustainability,…

Earther Molly Taft

Why Medicare for All Must Be Part of the Green New Deal

In 1991, Larry Barragan got word that the oil refinery in Long Beach, California where he was working would be closing. It was one of the scariest moments of his career. Barragan was nervous about losing his income, but even worse was the thought of losing his health insurance, especially because his wife was pregnant…

Earther Dharna Noor

Why the PRO Act Is Part of a Green New Deal

On Tuesday night, the U.S. House passed an essential piece of climate policy. But the legislation makes no mention of greenhouse gas emissions, pollution, or extreme weather. Instead, it’s all about labor protections. The Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2021, known as the PRO Act, is the most comprehensive piece of labor legislation…

Earther Dharna Noor

Big Oil’s New Slate of Desperate Buzzwords Are Greenwashing at Its Worst

The past year has been not great for oil companies. Between financial losses from the pandemic and increasing pressure from investors and the public at large to do something about how their product is messing up the planet, fossil fuel producers are feeling the heat. Big Oil’s new act appears to be convincing the public…

Earther Molly Taft

Leaked Big Oil Docs Hint at Support for a Carbon Tax, but the Money Trail Tells a Different Story

The #resistance is growing. The American Petroleum Institute, which is the nation’s largest lobbying group for the oil and gas industry, is planning to endorse levying a price on carbon pollution, according to documents obtained by the Wall Street Journal. The announcement comes as the oil industry faces the prospect of tighter regulations with the…

Climate Change Dharna Noor

Stopping Carbon Pollution by 2050 Would Add $1 Trillion to the Economy

According to the best available climate science, the U.S. needs to completely zero out its carbon pollution by 2050 to secure a livable future. A new analysis from the nonprofit Energy Innovation lays out a plan to get there, which also would just happen to add a cool $1 trillion dollars to the national economy.…

Earther Dharna Noor

What’s the Best Way to Decarbonize Your Home?

Top 5 Places to Try to Escape Societal Collapse

Ban Mansions

9 Quotes From Republican Politicians Next to Their State’s Damning Heat Graphs

The Insidiousness of Wiggle Words

Exxon’s Newest Activist Investor Is a ‘Space Cowboy’

Children of Shell Employees Sure Seem to Be Embarrassed by Their Parents

The Fight to Define What ‘Clean’ Energy Means

Joe Biden Is Not Coming for Your Poorly Cooked Hamburger

Solving the Climate Crisis Hinges on the U.S. and China Cooperating

The U.S. Is Closer to a Zero-Carbon Grid Than It Seems

Why Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Needs to Go Way Bigger

Big Oil’s New Carbon Tax Stance Is Just Its Latest Trick to Keep Polluting

Warren Buffet and Other Deadbeats’ Climate Commitments Are Missing the Mark

Covering California’s Canals With Solar Panels Could Solve Two Crises at Once

Why Medicare for All Must Be Part of the Green New Deal

Why the PRO Act Is Part of a Green New Deal

Big Oil’s New Slate of Desperate Buzzwords Are Greenwashing at Its Worst

Leaked Big Oil Docs Hint at Support for a Carbon Tax, but the Money Trail Tells a Different Story

Stopping Carbon Pollution by 2050 Would Add $1 Trillion to the Economy

Watch and Follow Live as NASA Launches Its First Crewed Mission to the Moon in 54 Years 🔴

This Is the Way to Lego’s April Releases

Group Pushing Age Verification Requirements for AI Turns Out to Be Sneakily Backed by OpenAI

Amazon Facilities in Bahrain Hit Again as Iran Follows Through on Threat, Report Says

Why the PS6 Handheld Will Matter More Than the PS6

DNA Study Casts Even More Doubt on Shroud of Turin’s True Origin

Sam Witwer Is Ready for Maul’s Moment

Anthropic Can’t Cover Up Its Claude Code Leak Fast Enough

The Best Gadgets of March 2026

AirPods Max 2 Review: Still Ridiculously Expensive and Ridiculously Nice

DJI Osmo 360 Review: The Best 360 Camera for the DJI-Pilled

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

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