Bob Powell had spent more than a decade in the energy industry when he turned his attention to the problem of plastic waste. “I’m very passionate about the environment,” he says. To him, the accumulating scourge of irresponsibly discarded plastic ranks high on the list of environmental issues, “right behind global warming and drought.” In 2014, he found what he […]
Solar panels on the rooftop and car park of a secondary school in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Many such projects allow users to generate their own electricity and sell the surplus back to the grid. Photo credit: Energe. By Javier Lewkowicz Distributed generation and local actors are boosting renewables, democratising energy and reducing bills. A small town generating its own power, […]
Uncategorized A water reservoir in Spain. Photo credit: EPA-EFE / Siu Wu. By Anders Lorenzen Spain, Italy and France are being told to expect a summer of unprecedented drought driven by climate change. The drought has already started with some regions suffering water shortages and farmers expecting to harvest their worst yields in decades. Having experienced severe consecutive droughts throughout […]
Off the coast of the Hawaiian Island of Kauai, an underwater metropolis bustles. Sea turtles glide lazily through the surf while schools of fluorescent yellow butterflyfish weave between basketball-size sea urchins and sharp corals. But Dave Anderson isn’t distracted by the otherworldly charm of the coral reef — he’s here on a mission. Around 70 feet below the surface, he […]
DTEK workers on the construction of the Tyligul wind farm. Photo credit: DTEK. By Anders Lorenzen In war-torn Ukraine, much has been made of the huge effort to rebuild following the devastation, that war has brought to the country where millions of people have been displaced. Even though there is no immediate prospect of an end to the war, one […]
Peter Singer has been called one of the most influential — and controversial — philosophers alive today. His pioneering work Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals, which vividly portrayed the harsh conditions for livestock on factory farms, helped spark the animal rights movement. The book, published in 1975, has now been revised and was reissued this […]