low carbon economy
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Top 5 Places to Try to Escape Societal Collapse
Everybody needs a plan to survive the zombie apocalypse, climate apocalypse, financial apocalypse, or all of the above. You need your shotgun, your go-bags, and your pickup truck but mostly you just need a good place to hide out while the shit goes down — a refuge from systemic, global collapse.
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Exxon’s Newest Activist Investor Is a ‘Space Cowboy’
Exxon announced Wednesday that a third new member has been appointed to the company’s board, following a week of vote counting after the company was caught by surprise by a shareholder insurrection last week led by activist investor Engine No. 1. The new board member, Alexander “Andy” Karsner, currently works as a “Space Cowboy” for…
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The U.S. Is Closer to a Zero-Carbon Grid Than It Seems
The U.S. has a lot of work to do to draw down carbon emissions. But a new report shows that when it comes to the energy grid, things are actually in better shape than researchers thought it’d be by this point.
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Stopping Carbon Pollution by 2050 Would Add $1.3 Trillion to the Economy
According to the best available climate science, the U.S. needs to completely zero out its carbon pollution by 2050 to secure a liveable future. A new analysis from the nonprofit Energy Innovation lays out a plan to get there, which also would just happen to add a cool $US1 ($1.3) trillion dollars to the national…