'Alternative' energy and less energy

Planet of the humans: A reheated mess of lazy, old myths [Detailed critique of the film]

27/04/20
Author: 
Ketan Joshi
Link: 
ketanjoshi.co
wind turbines - Planet of the Humans
April 24, 2020
 
The film ‘Planet of the Humans’ opens with the director, Jeff Gibbs, operating a fossil-fuelled combustion engine vehicle, on a road full of combustion engine vehicles, followed up with some footage taken from the International Space Station (fossil fuelled rockets put that in space).
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'Alternative' energy and less energy
Climate Change
Coal
LNG - Fracking
Oil - Pipelines
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Michael Moore’s dreadful, ill-informed, unhelpful film

27/04/20
Author: 
Elizabeth May
Link: 
Green Party of Canada

April 26, 2020

During a Green Party webinar last week to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, one message from a member of the audience caught my attention:

“Michael Moore presents Planet of the Humans, a documentary that dares to say what no one else will this Earth Day — that we are losing the battle to stop climate change on planet earth because we are following leaders who have taken us down the wrong road — selling out the green movement to wealthy interests and corporate America.”

And then the question: 

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'Alternative' energy and less energy
Canada
Climate Change
Coal
Energy
LNG - Fracking
Oil - Pipelines
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Five proposals for a better world after the pandemic - DUTCH MANIFESTO

21/04/20
Author: 
Dutch academics
Link: 
Climate and Capitalism
Dutch Manifesto April 2020
 April 20, 2020
170 Dutch academics sign manifesto for sustainable, equal and diverse societies based on international solidarity

The following statement, signed by 170 academics from eight universities in the Netherlands, has been widely reported in the Dutch press, becoming a focus for discussion on how to avoid repeating past mistakes when in planning for the future.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy
Agriculture
Capitalism
Climate Change
Ecology/Environment
Social
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Canada’s murky bailout deal for oil and gas will cost us all

21/04/20
Author: 
Dianne Saxe
Link: 
National Observer
Dianne Saxe is president of Saxe Facts, and was Environmental Commissioner of Ontario from 2015 to 2019

April 21st 2020

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'Alternative' energy and less energy
Alberta
Canada
Climate Change
Labour - Unions
Oil - Pipelines
Tar Sands
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Social tipping dynamics for stabilizing Earth’s climate by 2050

11/03/20
Author: 
Contributed by Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, November 15, 2019 (sent for review January 22, 2019; reviewed by J. David Tabara and Jessika E. Trancik)
Link: 
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States

PNAS February 4, 2020 117 (5) 2354-2365; first published January 21, 2020

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'Alternative' energy and less energy
Climate Change
Climate Science
Social
Urban
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What would happen if the world reacted to climate change like it’s reacting to the coronavirus?

10/03/20
Author: 
Adele Peters
Link: 
Fast Company
[Source Images: ktsimage/iStock, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center]

Mar. 10, 2020

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'Alternative' energy and less energy
Capitalism
Climate Change
Social
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A Post-Growth Green New Deal

22/02/20
Author: 
Riccardo Mastini
Link: 
Resilience
Image with Painting -  Occupy Reno Media Committee CC BY-ND 2.0

February 18, 2020

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'Alternative' energy and less energy
Climate Change
Ecosocialism
Green New Deal/LEAP
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A Cold War lesson for the climate change era: Why we need a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty

06/02/20
Author: 
Tzeporah Berman, Peter Newell, Matthew Stilwell
Link: 
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

February 4, 2020

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'Alternative' energy and less energy
Climate Change
Global
Nuclear
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Alberta Solar Farm, Canada's Biggest, Nets $500 Million From Danish Infrastructure Fund

05/02/20
Author: 
The Energy Mix
Link: 
The Energy Mix
photovoltaic farm - blickpixel/pixabay

Canada’s biggest solar farm, the 400-MW, 1,900-hectare Travers Solar Energy Project in Alberta, has received a C$500-million cash infusion from Denmark’s Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners that will allow Calgary-based Greengate Power to start construction at the site near the village of Lomond in Vulcan County.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy
Alberta
Canada
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Realizing ‘Just Transitions’: The Struggle for Plant Conversion at GM Oshawa

03/02/20
Author: 
Sam Gindin
Link: 
The Bullet
GM Oshawa closed

February 3, 2020 

On November 26, 2018, General Motors announced a number of plant closures in North America, the largest of which is in Oshawa, Ontario. The Oshawa facility, once the largest auto complex on the continent, was to end all its assembly operations by the end of 2019.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy
Alberta
Canada
Capitalism
Climate Change
Labour - Unions
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