Vimeo | By: Jamie Hancock | GPE – May 12, 2018: Cape Town is currently suffering from a water crisis due to a number of different factors. The residents are having to cut their daily water usage down to a limit of 50 litres per day per person and on Read more…
Al Jazeera | By: Yorgos Avgeropoulos | April 16, 2018: Is water a commodity or a human right? Cities across Europe are fighting water privatisation. In 2010, water was officially recognised as a universal human right by the United Nations. However, the European Union has yet to do the same. Read more…
GrahamHancockDotCom | By: Luke Hancock & Echan Deravy | GPE – April 02, 2018: Pollack Laboratory ~ uncovering nature’s deeply held secrets. Dr. Gerald Pollack maintains an active laboratory at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of WATER: A Multidisciplinary Research Journal; Executive Director of Read more…
UrbanNext | GPE – March 22, 2018: In this short film, which is an excerpt of an interview produced during the symposium “Decoding Asian Urbanism” held at the South Asian Institute at Harvard University, landscape architect Kongjian Yu talks about how ecological lifestyles demand for a new set of aesthetic Read more…
Jeunes Patriotes Congolais | GPE – March 21, 2018: The video (in French) presents the work of Jérôme Munyangi, a Congolese Physician-Researcher based in Maniema for the purpose of finding a healing plant that will be effective against malaria. A team of Democratic Republic of Congo doctors, Jerome Munyangi and Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Fred Krupp | March 20, 2018: Multilateral corporate partnerships and market-based approaches have become standard practice. American corporations began joining with environmental groups to increase sustainability nearly 30 years ago. This trend was still on the horizon in 1986 when I wrote an op-ed Read more…
Free To Choose TV | By: Johan Norberg | GPE – March 17, 2018: Hour One: Morality & Markets, explores Smith’s life and role in the Scottish Enlightenment, his thoughts on empathy and how we distinguish right from wrong. French wine, Scottish whiskey, and freshly-baked scones all illustrate Smith’s economic Read more…
Free To Choose TV | By: Johan Norberg | GPE – March 17, 2018: Hour Two: Ideas That Changed the World, explores contemporary life and Smith’s influences on the very things we see going on today. Why is Smith widely studied now in China? Ethical businesses, like Whole Foods, showcase Read more…
An Independant Film | By: Jordan Brown | GPE – March 17, 2018: A film about screen culture and its implications. While the world burns, where are we? Introduction: We live in a world of screens. The average adult spends the majority of their waking hours in front of some Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Steve Hanley | February 04, 2018: When Elon Musk offered to build what would be the largest grid storage battery installation in the world in South Australia last year, he set off a chain of events that may have implications for the entire world. In a Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Keiko Morris | February 04, 2018: Wood’s ability to create a warm environment appeals to tech companies, a plus for a city on Amazon’s HQ2 shortlist. In the contest to attract office tenants, many developers stick with the tried-and-true combination of concrete, steel and Read more…
Return To Now | By: Sara Burrows | GPE – February 04, 2018: After thousands of years of turning the soil upside-down, farmers are finally realizing they’re killing the microorganisms that keep soil alive… Faced with losing the farm, more and more are converting to the ancient “no-till” methods of Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Owen Agnew | February 02, 2018: More than four months after Hurricane Maria tore across Puerto Rico, over 450,000 people are still without power. For critical facilities like hospitals, the lack of electricity has meant cutting services and relying on generators until power is restored. Nexus Read more…
The Financial Times | February 01, 2018: Bank banned from taking new private clients over failings on money laundering checks. Swiss authorities have reprimanded Gazprombank, Russia’s third-largest bank, over “serious shortcomings in anti-money laundering processes” related to the Panama Papers. Finma, Switzerland’s financial regulator, said Gazprombank’s Swiss branch “failed to Read more…
Clean Technica | By: The Beam | February 02, 2018: A New York-based energy project built on blockchain is currently attempting to create peer-to-peer marketplaces for distributed energy. As the global energy market is still trapped in a previous era and needs an urgent and thorough redesign, the Brooklyn Microgrid Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Steve Hanley | February 02, 2018: Tesla has booked pre-orders for its all-electric Semi heavy duty trucks from at least 9 major corporations. Now, some of those companies are planning how they will charge those trucks once they arrive. In particular, Anheuser Busch and United Parcel Read more…
Clean Technica | By: James Ayre | February 02, 2018: Essentially every country with any territory anywhere near the Arctic has by now staked out claims to offshore resources well beyond their own territorial waters there, largely based on arguments relating to the extent of relevant continental shelves. The Arctic Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Guest Contributor | February 02, 2018: Here’s the deal: The Trump Administration is working to repeal (and possibly replace) America’s Clean Power Plan. Backed by powerful oil, coal, and gas companies, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt claims the original Clean Power Plan design overstepped Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Bob Sussman | February 02, 2018: The system took shape in the 1960s and 70s as the public and politicians sounded the alarm about the environmental legacy of decades of uncontrolled industrialization. Faced with the threat of unsafe and polluted air, contaminated rivers and streams, hazardous Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Sophie Vorrath | February 02, 2018: Extraordinary figures continue to roll in from the year that was for renewable energy in Australia, but easily the most outstanding so far are the numbers – and “eye watering charts” – that have just come in on national solar Read more…
The Guardian | By: Calla Wahlquist | January 31, 2018: Climate experiment shows trees release water but stop absorbing carbon in extreme heat. Australian researchers growing trees in climate change conditions have found the leaves “sweat” to survive extreme heatwaves. The year-long experiment showed that trees continue to release water Read more…
The Guardian | By: Reuters | January 31, 2018: A Pentagon report has highlighted military bases’ vulnerability to the effects of climate change. Nearly half of US military sites are threatened by wild weather linked to climate change, according to a new Pentagon study whose findings run contrary to White Read more…
Reuters | By: Ed Stoddard & Victor Antonie | January 31, 2018: Cape Town is running out of water and low dam levels in the emerald-green highlands of Lesotho are raising alarm bells in South Africa’s industrial heartland around Johannesburg, which has so far avoided the shortages hitting other regions. Read more…
Reuters | By: Umberto Bacchi | January 31, 2018: Drought-stricken Cape Town could run out of water as soon as April, but South Africa is not alone in its struggle as ever more world cities battle acute water shortages. Water scarcity already affects more than 40 percent of the world’s Read more…
The Hill | By: Timothy Cama | January 31, 2018: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is pushing back by two years an Obama administration rule redefining the federal government’s power over small waterways. The Trump administration is working to repeal the rule, dubbed the Clean Water Rule or Waters of Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By: Keith Schneider | GPE – February 01, 2018: Water scarcity forces millions of people off of farms and into teeming cities. Originally published June 02, 2016: The latest national drought assessment shows that 19 of the 36 states and territories in India are experiencing moisture Read more…
Forester Network | By: Janice Kaspersen | January 30, 2018: As you might have heard, Cape Town, South Africa, is about to run out of water. Officials have predicted that “Day Zero,” when the water reserves drop so low that they’ll have to shut off the supply to the taps, Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Andrew Browne | January 30, 2018: The Marshall Plan birthed a U.S.-led global order ~ now China is building a new world. The U.S. once had a grand strategy. Its post-World War II rescue program for Europe gave birth to a new global order. Read more…
Yale 360 | E360 Digest | January 26, 2018: More than 11 billion pieces of plastic are lodged within coral reefs in the Asia-Pacific region. According to a new study published in the journal Science, as this plastic gets tangled, it often cuts the coral, increasing the risk of infection Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By: Brett Walton | GPE – January 29, 2018: The proposed halt to operations in 2019 at the West’s largest coal-fired power plant could attract White House attention. Originally published February 23, 2017: Since 1976 the 2,250-megawatt coal-fired Navajo Generating Station, with its three towering stacks Read more…
World Food Programme | GPE – January 27, 2018: KINSHASA – In a stark warning, three UN agencies – the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), UNICEF and the World Food Programme (WFP) – say time is running out to save hundreds of thousands of lives in the Democratic Republic of Read more…
The New York Times | By: Somini Sengupta | GPE – January 27, 2018: UNITED NATIONS — Nigeria. Syria. Somalia. And now Iran. In each country, in different ways, a water crisis has triggered some combination of civil unrest, mass migration, insurgency or even full-scale war. Originally published January 18, Read more…
Clean Technica | By: George Harvey | January 24, 2018: The design for a community microgrid project that is forming in Warner, New Hampshire, seems rather prosaic at first glance. It is simple, with a few buildings, some solar panels, batteries, inverters, and all the regular gear. It seems an Read more…
News24 | By: Jenni Evans | January 23, 2018: Day Zero in Cape Town has been brought forward by nine days to April 12 due to a drop in dam levels, City of Cape Town Deputy Mayor Ian Neilson said on Tuesday. “Unfortunately, due to a drop in the dam Read more…
World Resources Institute | By: Andrew Wu, Sofia Faruqi, Andrés Anchondo Ortega and Eriks Brolis | GPE – January 23, 2018: An estimated 15 billion trees are cut down each year—more than 41 million per day. Given this pace of land degradation, it’s hard to imagine how traditional reforestation methods, Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Steve Hanley | January 22, 2018: The world’s biggest air purifier has been constructed in the city of Xian in Shaanxi province, which is located in the northern part of the country. Standing 100 meters high, the tower uses heat from the sun to create an Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Newley Purnell | January 22, 2018: The country, newly online, has become obsessed with sending cheery greetings from smartphones, causing head scratching in Silicon Valley. Google researchers in Silicon Valley were trying to figure out why so many smartphones were freezing up half a Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Steve Hanley | January 22, 2018: Cape Town, South Africa, a city of 4 million, is facing an existential challenge. It is about to run out of fresh water. Anthony Turton, a professor at the Center for Environmental Management at the University of the Free State Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Joshua S Hill | January 22, 2018: China’s National Energy Administration published its official solar statistics for 2017 on Monday, revealing that the country had installed a total of 52.83 gigawatts worth of new solar capacity in 2017. A lot of attention has been given over Read more…
THINK Global School | Hans Rosling | GPE – January 19, 2018: In part 5 of a 6-part lecture, Hans Rosling uses statistics to give an overview of population growth and an explanation of why the total human population will never exceed 11 billion, as others predict and fear. THINK Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Natalia Drozdiak | January 18, 2018: Supreme Court expected to rule by June in dispute between the Justice Department and Microsoft. European lawmakers and companies worry that a lawsuit the U.S. government has brought to the Supreme Court could clash with European Union law, Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Dylan McConnell | January 17, 2018: It’s just over one month since the Hornsdale Power Reserve was officially opened in South Australia at the Hornsdale wind farm. The excitement surrounding the project has generated acres of media interest, both locally and abroad. The aspect that Read more…
RSA Conference | Blog | GPE – January 17, 2018: Numerous relatively recent cyber attacks have successfully breached organizations that should be the cyber world’s equivalent of Fort Knox – exceedingly hard to penetrate. Yet as the infiltration of systems at the likes of the Security and Exchange Commission, National Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Theo Francis & Yaryna Serkez | GPE – January 17, 2018: Companies have long sheltered foreign profits offshore. Now the tax bill is coming due. How much will they pay? December’s federal tax overhaul gave American companies much of what they wanted on the Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Carolyn Fortuna | January 16, 2018: The Wind Energy Foundation has just released a new report. In it, they talk about the need for US transmission planners to modify their calculations based on the number of big companies that are increasingly signing deals to buy wind Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Steve Hanley | January 16, 2018: High electricity costs make renewable energy more attractive. That’s why Bloomberg thinks Australia is poised to have a renewable energy bonanza. “The payback period for residential solar is now as low as it was in 2012, when super-generous feed-in tariffs Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Joshua S Hill | January 16, 2018: Increasing the share of renewable energy sources in India’s electricity mix and implementing changes in cooling technologies for thermal power plants could serve not only to reduce the country’s carbon emissions intensity, but could also substantially reduce water consumption, Read more…
World Resources Institute | By: Hui Jiang | GPE – January 16, 2018: China’s cities are drowning in bicycles. Originally published January 12, 2018: Dozens of “dockless” bike-sharing startups have emerged in the past few years, offering apps where riders can locate bicycles, unlock them and leave them wherever their Read more…
World Resources Institute | By: Tianyi Luo | January 16, 2018: Water shortages are hurting India’s ability to produce power. New WRI research finds that 40 percent of the country’s thermal power plants are located in areas facing high water stress, a problem since these plants use water for cooling. Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By: Codi Kozacek | GPE – January 16, 2018: Climate change is here, but will we fight over it? Originally published March 30, 2016: Research by renowned climate scientist James Hansen and an international team of researchers found in March 2016 that climate change could cause Read more…
Gallup | By: Zacc Ritter and Jeffrey M. Jones | January 16, 2018: Americans believe the news media play an important role in democracy, particularly in terms of informing the public, yet they do not think the media are fulfilling that role well. Forty-four percent of Americans say the news Read more…
The Guardian | By: Moulid Hujale | January 15, 2018: More than 4,000 people are homeless two weeks after security forces demolished camps sheltering internally displaced Somalis. Two weeks after being forcibly evicted from their shelters, thousands of vulnerable families are still living rough in the outskirts of Mogadishu. Somali Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By: Keith Schneider | GPE – January 16, 2018: Droughts, floods, and civic opposition cause huge losses. Originally published April 28, 2016: In early November 2002, six years before Lehman Brothers melted down and the American economy came much too close to collapsing, John Cassidy wrote Read more…
The Jerusalem Post | By: KKL-JNF Staff | GPE – January 15, 2018: An ancient land with new ideas for reclaiming ecosystem services and combating desertification. Humans have lived in all regions of Israel, including the semi-arid and arid ones, since before Biblical times, with varying degrees of success. Some Read more…
The Economist | GPE – January 15, 2018: The spread of forests is not always popular. But it is sure to continue. Colm Stenson drives around County Leitrim, pointing out new tree plantations. In this corner of Ireland, close to the border with Northern Ireland, conifers seem to be springing Read more…
PBS | By: Teresa Carey | GPE – January 15, 2018: When a predator is near, water fleas don their armor. Their bodies produce spikes and helmets to dissuade their attackers. Originally published January 12, 2018: But in a new study, aquatic biologists at Ruhr University Bochum report that freshwater Read more…
Renewable Energy World | Bloomberg | By: Brian Eckhouse | GPE – January 13, 2018: Tesla Inc. has kicked off production of its long-awaited electricity-producing shingles that Elon Musk says will transform the rooftop solar industry. Originally published January 09, 2018: Manufacturing of the photovoltaic glass tiles began last month Read more…
The Financial Times | By: Barney Jopson | January 11, 2018: Online donation sites are booming as patients with little or no health insurance turn to strangers to help pay medical costs. Isabella Masucci strode into hospital after a sleepless night. She carried a paper bag of prized possessions and Read more…
The Washington Post | By: Brady Dennis | January 08, 2018: This map (above) shows changes in the salt content of fresh water in rivers and streams across the United States over the past half-century. Warmer colors indicate increasing salinity, while cooler colors indicate decreasing salinity. The black dots represent Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Jennifer Delony | GPE – January 09, 2018: A new group of microgrids has been proposed to help support Connecticut’s critical facilities in the event of an emergency. The proposals are part of the latest round of applications that were due Jan. 1 for funding Read more…
Wall Street Journal | By: Laura Kusisto | January 08, 2018: The Lower Income Voucher Equity Program will help lower-income tenants pay the difference between what they can afford and the market rent. Denver has a plan for its glut of sparkling new, high-end rental apartments with amenities like gyms, Read more…
USGS | GPE – January 08, 2018: Snow-affected urban areas are particularly vulnerable. A U.S. Geological Survey report finds that many U.S. rivers are becoming increasingly salty, which contributes to corrosion in water distribution systems. Concentrations of chloride—a main component of salt—and other measures of potential corrosivity increased in many Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Tim Dixon | January 06, 2018: We’ve published a couple of articles recently on Shenzhen’s dramatic electrification of over 16,000 buses — something completely unprecedented around the world. But to say this is an isolated case of Chinese electric bus leadership would be to miss the Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Tim Dixon | January 06, 2018: China’s King of the electric vehicle world. It has more electric car sales than the rest of the world combined. One city now has over 16,000 electric buses in service — 100% of its fleet — and other cities are Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Steve Hanley | January 06, 2018: If you want a feel-good story about a country that takes climate change seriously and is willing to take significant steps to protect the environment, China is a good place to start. Long the poster child for poisonous air, foul Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Jesper Berggreen | January 06, 2018: Numbers have just come out this week from danskenergi.dk, the Danish energy organization whose members support companies in delivering steady green power to the Danes, with an impressive uptime of 99.99% at competitive prices. A New Record Wind turbines delivered Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Jack Nicas | January 04,2018: Several tech firms were notified of the vulnerabilities in June 2017. The disclosure of security flaws in computer chips dealt Intel Corp. what seemed like a sudden crisis, but behind the scenes it and other tech companies and experts Read more…
Business Insurance | Reuters | January 04, 2018: Security researchers on Wednesday disclosed a set of security flaws that they said could let hackers steal sensitive information from nearly every modern computing device containing chips from Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and ARM Holdings. One of the bugs is Read more…
Yale Environment 360 | By: Richard Conniff | January 03, 2018: Efforts to protect biodiversity are now focusing less on preserving pristine areas and more on finding room for wildlife on the margins of human development. As urban areas keep expanding, it is increasingly the only way to allow species Read more…
Inc.com | By: Lauren Barack | GPE – January 03, 2018: If you think drones aren’t for your business – well, these founders once thought that too. In late 2016, Michael E. Jordan wanted to boost holiday sales for his fledgling athletic-wear company, UNRL, which is based in St. Paul. Read more…
World Resources Institute | By: Katie Reytar & Peter Veit | GPE – January 03, 2018: Indigenous Peoples and local communities are some of the best environmental stewards. Their livelihoods and cultures depend on forests, clean water and other natural resources, so they have strong incentives to sustainably manage their Read more…