More Energy on Less Land: The Drive to Shrink Solar’s Footprint
From the ground, the new solar farm shimmers like a mirage oasis on a hot summer day. Instead of row after slanting row of shiny panels stretching taller than corn,…
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Wrong Turn: America’s Car Culture and the Road Not Taken
If you lived in the suburbs in the 1970s, you can see it in your mind’s eye: driveway after driveway filled with Country Squires and Pontiac Safaris and Buick Estate…
Why Putting Solar Canopies on Parking Lots Is a Smart Green Move
Fly into Orlando, Florida, and you may notice a 22-acre solar power array in the shape of Mickey Mouse’s head in a field just west of Disney World. Nearby, Disney…
From Homes to Cars, It’s Now Time to Electrify Everything
For too long, the climate solutions conversation has been dominated by the supply-side view of the energy system: What will replace coal plants? Will natural gas be a bridge fuel?…
Is the ‘Legacy’ Carbon Credit Market a Climate Plus or Just Hype?
On October 20 last year, French oil giant Total docked a tanker loaded with Australian liquefied natural gas at the port of Dapeng in southern China. The company boasted that…
As Big Energy Gains, Can Europe’s Community Renewables Compete?
In the old medieval market town of Heilbronn, perched on the Neckar River in southwestern Germany, the zeal of the city’s award-winning renewable energy cooperative is on display just about…
Overview: Transforming Land and Sea for a More Sustainable World
As the global population nears 8 billion, the human footprint can be seen in almost every corner of the Earth. Logging roads cut deep into the Amazon rainforest. Plastics swirl…
Learning How to Talk: What Climate Activists Must Do in the Biden Era
OPINION A broad coalition brought Joe Biden to victory. If activists want real progress on climate in a Biden administration, environmentalist Bill McKibben writes, they need to learn how to…
As Drought Shrivels Hydro, This African Nation Pivots to Solar
“When the lights are off, people think that my shop is closed.” As the sun sets on Lusaka, Zambia’s capital, Emmanuel Simukoko explains why his business has suffered from the…
Trump 2.0: This Time the Stakes for Climate Are Even Higher
ANALYSIS Donald Trump has promised to halt federal climate action and repeal the Biden-era Inflation Reduction Act, which provides unprecedented spending for clean energy. The market momentum for renewables and…