Posts on: environment

In Kim Stanley Robinson’s climate fiction novel The Ministry for the Future, the story begins during an extreme heat wave in India. Temperatures and humidity, together known as “wet bulb […]

Trade-offs: they’re unavoidable. As the world attempts to wean itself off its 100-year-long fossil fuel high, a new challenge arises. Batteries, solar panels and wind turbines all require mined materials […]

If we lived in a more reasonable- some might say more sane- world, the need to adapt to a warming world would not be a political issue. Alas, we are […]

If there’s one thing that was made crystal clear this week, it’s that the new federal government is going to be hostile to renewable energy, despite all its obvious benefits. […]

On Monday, City Limits published this Op-Ed by Solar One Senior Policy Manager Kate Selden and Cooper Square Committee’s Resiliency Coordinator and Housing Organizer Alex Lee, encouraging the expansion of […]

What happens when dry weather is closely followed by wet weather, which is then closely followed by windy weather? Devastating wildfires like the ones raging through neighborhoods in and around […]

Wildfires in the western United States have always been frequent seasonal occurrences, and in the past couple of years, fires have also erupted in the Pacific Northwest and in eastern […]

Hurricane Helene, which claimed the lives of 110 people over the weekend, has also demolished an idea: that there is such a thing as a “climate haven”, or place that’s more […]

New York set some very ambitious climate goals, and some are proving harder to attain than others. But one area where we’re overachieving is in adopting solar energy. As outlined […]

The Supreme Court finished their term by upending a 40-year-old decision that made it easier for the federal government to regulate the environment, public health, workplace safety and consumer protections, delivering a […]