Day: December 18, 2015
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on the exquisitely fragile, blue ball, with all the life we know everywhere, and ever was
(Click image for an astonishingly wonderful large photo. Use browser Back button to return.) It’s just Earth. And Earth will be okay, completely fine, with or without us. As will the biosphere, our companions. It cannot be worse than the horrors people have already inflicted our fellow creatures. The questions we need to face are…
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“What just happened to wind and solar is a really big deal”
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in Anthropocene, Cape Wind, clean disruption, conservation, consumption, COP21, corporate litigation on damage from fossil fuel emissions, corporate supply chains, decentralized electric power generation, decentralized energy, demand-side solutions, destructive economic development, dynamical systems, economics, energy, energy reduction, energy utilities, Hyper Anthropocene, investment in wind and solar energy, microgrids, pipelines, public utility commissions, PUCs, rate of return regulation, solar energy, solar power, SolarPV.tv, Tony Seba, wind energy, wind power, zero carbonFrom Bloomberg New Energy Finance: “This is massive,” said Ethan Zindler, head of U.S. policy analysis at BNEF. In the short term, the deal will speed up the shift from fossil fuels more than the global climate deal struck this month in Paris and more than Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan that regulates coal plants,…