They started up their own community bank. Now they're building a solar-power station for their street. Some artivists! NEW ENERGY SOURCES, NEW ECONOMICS, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, TECHNOLOGY, REGEN ECONOMIESpat kane2 September 2022energy, green energy, solarpunk, solar powerComment
"Is capitalism a suicide machine - or capable of playing a crucial role in speeding the energy transition?" asks Bill McKibben 4TH SECTOR, REGEN ECONOMIES, NEW ECONOMICS, ENVIRONMENTALISTSpat kane21 May 2022energy, green energy, clean energyComment
Renewable storage of renewable energy is really important. A new report says the UK's potential to store it as hydrogen is huge REGEN ECONOMIES, NEW ECONOMICS, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, ENVIRONMENTALISTSpat kane5 May 2022hydrogen, energy storage, green energyComment
Solar panels on half the world’s roofs could meet its entire electricity demand, says new research NEW ECONOMICS, SHAPE THE SYSTEM, BUILD THE ECONOMY, TECHNOLOGY, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, GLOBALISTSpat kane10 October 2021solar power, green energyComment
We need to electrify 1 billion small machines, and 1 million big machines, if we want to make a serious dent in energy usage BUILD THE ECONOMY, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, INGENUITY, TECHNOLOGY, TELL THE STORYpat kane21 July 2021energy, green agenda, green energy, clean energy, electrification Comment
Environmentally, shipping is a very dirty business. But new wind-and-hydrogen-powered vessels could point them in the right direction ENVIRONMENTALISTS, GLOBALISTS, NEW ECONOMICS, BUILD THE ECONOMYpat kane3 August 2020renewables, energy, green energy, shippingComment
Some literally "beautiful" news on the way that renewable energy is crushing fossil fuels, in audio and graphics BUILD THE ECONOMY, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, TECHNOLOGY, 4TH SECTORpat kane14 April 2020green energy, renewables, clean energyComment
This small German town took back the power – and went fully renewable. Could your locality do this too? COMMUNITY, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, 4TH SECTOR, LOCALISM, NEW ECONOMICSpat kane2 January 2020energy, green energy, germany Comments
The knock-down case against nuclear power: it'll be too slow, and too expensive, to help us deal with our IPCC targets ENVIRONMENTALISTS, TECHNOLOGYpat kane24 September 2019energy, green energy, nuclear powerComment
Data centres drive our life in the Cloud. But they're on an upward curve of energy use... How can they be planet-friendly? TECHNOLOGY, 4TH SECTOR, ENVIRONMENTALISTSpat kane24 May 2019the cloud, digital lifestyle, green energyComment
Sustainable energy systems are now a better commercial bet than carbon-fuelled ones. But consumers must still consume less of it ENVIRONMENTALISTS, NEW ECONOMICS, TECHNOLOGY, 4TH SECTORpat kane18 April 2019energy, green energy, greentechComment
What is "soft infrastructure"? Maybe it's using the batteries of parked electric cars as stores for renewable energy ENVIRONMENTALISTS, INGENUITY, NEW ECONOMICSpat kane22 January 2019sustainability, clean energy, green energy, greentechComment
Some clean-energy technologies just got a billion dollar investment boost ENVIRONMENTALISTS, INGENUITYpat kane18 October 2018green energy, clean energy
Saul Griffith's commitment to showing how much individuals--and entire superpowers--can benefit from "energy literacy" ENVIRONMENTALISTS, FUTURES, INGENUITYpat kane13 October 2018energy, green energy, sustainability, greentech
Bringing solar power to the people, but coming from different directions - bottom-up and top-down 4TH SECTOR, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, INGENUITYpat kane8 September 2018solar power, energy, green energy
How do we utilize local knowledge so that others can benefit from it? A guide from the Danish Island of Samsø LOCALISM, PRACTICE, NEW ECONOMICS, ENVIRONMENTALISTSpat kane17 April 2018energy, sustainability, green energy