Khosla: Feel-good greenies bad for planet
PASADENA, Calif. — Green tech guru Vinod Khosla probably didn’t win many friends among the chardonnay-and-carbon-offsets crowd Tuesday during an appearance at Fortune’s Brainstorm Green conference,...
View ArticleIBM to build world’s first national smart utility grid
Photo: Visit Malta The Mediterranean island nation of Malta on Wednesday unveiled a deal with IBM to build a “smart utility” system that will digitize the country’s electricity grid and water system....
View ArticleStudy: China can store 100 years of carbon emissions
Image: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Next month the United States Department of Energy will release a study finding that China contains huge underground repositories that could be used to...
View ArticleAustralia’s climate change coup
In my new Green State column on Grist, I write about the latest political machinations in Australia that derailed carbon cap-and-trade legislation at the 11th hour and sets the stage for a national...
View ArticleCalifornia sets up first GHG monitoring network
photo: Picarro In The New York Times on Wednesday, I write about California’s move to deploy the world’s first statewide greenhouse gas monitoring network: SAN FRANCISCO — California is preparing to...
View ArticleFighting climate change with the Endangered Species Act
photo: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service On Thursday, Yale Environment 360 published a story I wrote about a growing fight over using the U.S. Endangered Species Act to protect wildlife at risk of...
View ArticleReport: U.S. faces climate change-driven water shortages
I wrote this story for Grist, where it first appeared. As global warming accelerates, the world will become not only hotter, flatter, and more crowded but also thirsty, according to a new study that...
View ArticleNew Sierra Club leader plans next front in the climate war
Photo: Lori Eanes. In a piece I wrote for Yale Environment 360, I interview the new executive director of the Sierra Club, Michael Brune, about what’s next for the green movement in the wake of the...
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