?New ERA? to leverage $29 Billion to propel a Just Transition for rural commu...
by Tom Llewellyn
24 Sep 2024 at 3:26am
On September 5, 2024, Shareable and our partners at RPC were thrilled to announce that the first round of New ERA projects has been unveiled, marking a significant step forward with a total investment of $29 billion?$7.3 billion of which comes directly from federal support for Rural Electric Cooperatives (RECs).

Connecting the dots between climate destruction and its financial backers
by Eve Gutman
23 Sep 2024 at 6:47am
As Vanguard S.O.S. takes action in new places this fall, campaigners will be applying lessons learned and learning new ones in the process. It?s all in service of winning the changes that bring us ever closer to having clean air to breathe, clean water to drink and a safe climate in which to thrive.

What matters?
by Gunnar Rundgren
23 Sep 2024 at 6:46am
For the material footprint of industrial production and our corresponding consumption, a change of energy source itself makes in most cases little difference.

Silent Solar
by Bill McKibben
19 Sep 2024 at 3:25am
Solar panels have, over the last months, suddenly gotten so cheap that they?re now appearing in massive numbers across much of the developing world.

Alberta?s Highest Court Jams Smith?s Coal Plans
by Andrew Nikiforuk
17 Sep 2024 at 6:06am
Premier Danielle Smith?s efforts to revive a contentious open-pit coal mining project owned by the litigious Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart have met a major legal hurdle.

Urban futures, rural futures
by Chris Smaje
16 Sep 2024 at 3:25am
Claims that existing (or augmented) patterns of urbanism are more pro-social and pro-nature than rural alternatives appeal to people?s contrarian nature. And since most people live in urban areas, especially in the rich countries, it also tells them what they want to hear...

Oil Kills: Inside the International Uprising Disrupting the Aviation Industry
by Alexandria Shaner
12 Sep 2024 at 2:55am
The Oil Kills uprising and fellow movements around the world have placed their bodies between those tankers and our shared future to say, ?here, and no further.?

Utilities rely on dirty ?peaker? plants when power demand surges, but there a...
by Akshaya Jha
10 Sep 2024 at 6:15am
My research focuses on the economic and environmental costs and benefits of producing electricity. Here?s how the clean energy transition is changing the role of peaker plants and some other options for keeping the lights on during peak demand periods.

The Fracking Free-Market Fallacy
by Helene Langlamet
9 Sep 2024 at 2:36am
The way popular understandings of economics shape our ability to accurately perceive the role of government in the fracking boom is an extremely complex and nuanced problem. The small facet I attempt to tackle here is the role of our belief in the free market. I

It?s the labor, stupid
by Eliza Daley
4 Sep 2024 at 6:18am
We are stretching the material and labor limits of this planet to capacity merely to increase the complexity of our production methods, not to increase production, not to better meet our needs, not to create abundance or well-being for any body.

5 lessons from ancient civilizations for keeping homes cool in hot, dry climates
by Adriana Zuniga-Teran
3 Sep 2024 at 8:12am
Retrofitting modern cities and their glass towers for better heat control isn?t simple, but there are techniques that can be adapted to new designs for living better in hotter and drier climates and for relying less on constant summer air conditioning. These ancient civilizations can teach us how.