Climate Conversations

Climate News: What Would Real Energy Independence Look Like? - George Dillard


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Simon Holmes à Court will be in conversation with Rick Brazalle (pictured) at a Lighter Footprints event at Melbourne's Malvern Town Hall on Wednesday, March 5, discussing "Powering 2025: Driving Australia’s Energy Transition".

"What Would Real Energy Independence Look Like?";

"This wind farm is retiring, so what happens to its tonnes of steel?";

"Elon Musk’s Tesla big battery tweets put Australia on road to green energy, now he might derail it";

"A Simple Farming Trick That Could Remove CO₂ from the Atmosphere";

"Trump Order Shifts the Financial Burden of Climate Change Onto Individuals";

"How Trump could be derailing a major global climate report";

"Waves are getting bigger. Is the world ready?";

"Net zero emissions by 2050 is great for the fossil fuel industry";

"Water Access in North Gaza, Rafah Down to 7 Percent of Pre-Genocide Levels";

"An Economist’s Dire Forecast About Just How Much Climate Change Will Impact GDP";

"Trump Wants the Federal Government’s Facilities Administration to Disconnect Its EV Charging Stations";

"Here's how climate change fueled the Los Angeles fires";

"Lethal Greed: How Corporate Manipulation of Science and Regulation Makes People Sick";

"A Lawsuit Against Greenpeace Is Meant to Bankrupt It and Deter Public Protests, Environmental Groups Warn";

"Doctors and Medical Schools Are Changing Treatments and Training to Respond to the Warming Climate";

"Trump Team Plans Deep Cuts at Office That Funds Recovery From Big Disasters";

"Even epic rainfall may not be enough to refill SoCal’s aquifers";

"States are moving forward with Buy Clean policies despite Trump reversal";

"Climate change education can survive four more years of climate change denial";

"Kore Power has a new plan after canceling $1.2B battery plant in Arizona";

"Local Governments Can Achieve Texas-Sized Impacts from Distributed Energy Assets and Virtual Power Plants";

"Broken Levers" - George Monbiot;

"The climate crisis is a cost-of-living issue for Australia. My generation will be the first to pay for it";

"Activist asks Supreme Court to keep climate case alive";

"Tim Winton: Labor hasn’t delivered on more effective nature laws. It’s not just embarrassing, it’s calamitous";

"Serious concerns’: national assessment reveals rivers flowing into the Great Barrier Reef are getting more polluted";

"Why the death knell of a brutal 200km Dutch ice race signals trouble for Australia";

"Households are burning plastic waste as fuel for cooking and heating in slums the world over";

"Environmental Protection Agency Gives $20 Billion in ‘Green Bank’ Grants";

"The New Plutocracy";

"Energy and Wildlife Conservation: A Two-Pronged Approach";

"New Poll Finds Broad Support for Conservation and Action on Climate Change Across the West";

"Trump’s Friday Firings Leave EPA Chicago Office Down Dozens of Scientists, Staff";

"Gradually, Then Suddenly";

"Whale poop may have been a key fertilizer for oceans".

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