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Tag Archives: Climate change
Monbiot, Consumption, and Our Values
April 22, 2013 By Matt Palmer This article by George Monbiot “Let’s stop hiding behind recycling and be honest about consumption” illustrates one of the big challenges facing global society: consumption and the off shoring of emissions. Monbiot argues that countries claims … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative energy, Brave New World, Climate change, Critical thinking, documentary, Energy, Environment, George Monbiot, global society, Greenhouse gas, greenhouse gas emissions, politics, reducing carbon emissions, science, systems thinking, Unintended consequences
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Don’t Let the Energy Blowback Get You Down
February 26, 2013 By Matt Palmer Woody Allen once said, “Time is natures way of keeping everything from happening at once.” Wouldn’t it be amazing if we knew everything at the same time, that the answers to our biggest problems … Continue reading
Competing Solutions for the Energy System
February 20, 2012 By Matt Palmer I am linking two articles today, post State of the Union, that lay out solutions for dealing with the world’s growing energy challenges. Both writers, Bjorn Lomborg and Amory Lovins make good points and … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative energy, Amory Lovins, Climate change, Copenhagen Consensus, Critical thinking, documentary, Documentary film, Energy, Energy industry, Environment, Germany, Keystone XL, Lovins, Northern Gateway, oil sands, Photography, politics, Rocky Mountain Institute, systems thinking, Unintended consequences, Wall Street Journal
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Creating Change in the Energy System
February 6, 2012 By Matt Palmer “The Art of System Thinking in Driving Sustainable Transformation” is a great article from The Guardian about how systems thinking can help in the design of sustainable systems. Change of the scale we need … Continue reading
Water Down – Nexus Point
by Matt Palmer January 31, 2013 The amount of fresh water used globally for energy production is going to double by 2035 according to a new report by the International Energy Agency (IEA). This news is a concern for all of … Continue reading
Optimistic Outrageousness – Energy Innovation
January 21, 2012 By Matt Palmer Carmen Medina, IBM Think Forum The dictionary definition for “heretic” goes like this: a person holding opinions at odds with what is generally accepted. In today’s polarized world we may feel we are surrounded … Continue reading
The Black Carbon Solution
January 16, 2013 By Matt Palmer A new study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres shows that climate impacts from soot or black carbon has twice the impact on climate warming than previously thought. A great deal of the black carbon … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative energy, Black carbon, Climate, Climate change, Critical thinking, documentary, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, greenhouse gases, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, politics, science, systems thinking, Unintended consequences, vehicle fleets, wood charcoal
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A New Year = New Energy Solutions
January 10, 2012 By Matt Palmer This is my first post for the new year, after a bit of a break, and a nice holiday with family. My intention for this year, apart from completing financing for “Unintended Consequences” and … Continue reading
Mass Transit Unintended Consequences
December 13, 2012 By: Matt Palmer Monday marked the opening of the new west leg of the LRT in Calgary. The $1.4 billion dollar project took more than two years to build, and was the first extension of the LRT … Continue reading
Eco Porn vs Eco Ruin Porn: Are We Desensitized?
December 6, 2012 By Matt Palmer Have we become desensitized to beautiful pictures of nature, or blasé about too many pictures of ecological devastation? It is an interesting question to consider because if that is true it has tremendous impact … Continue reading