Archive for category: Environment and Climate Change

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  Fukushima and the struggle for a sustainable world

  Environment and Climate Change March 9, 2012 5:49 am

  On the occasion of the first anniversary of the Fukushima disaster it would thus be sensible to remind ourselves of what we really want.

   
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  Capitalism and Environmental Catastrophe: John Bellamy Foster’s notes from Zucotti Park

  Environment and Climate Change December 20, 2011 4:42 pm

  This is a reconstruction from notes of a talk delivered at a teach-in on “The Capitalist Crisis and the Environment” organized by the Education and Empowerment Working Group, Occupy Wall Street, Zuccotti Park (Liberty Plaza), New York, October 23, 2011. It was based on a talk delivered the night before [...]

   
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  What Future for Nuclear Power in India?: C. E. Karunakaran

  Environment and Climate Change, India's Nuclear Expansion, Nuclear Waste, Radiation and Health, Safety and Accidents December 13, 2011 7:57 pm

  For very many years I have been a supporter of nuclear power plants, on the premise “Bomb No, but Power Yes”.

   
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  Solar energy in India now costs 38% less

  Environment and Climate Change December 5, 2011 5:29 pm

  India, the world’s third-largest energy consumer, is cutting solar-power costs to a record by forcing project developers into auctions, helping avoid the spiraling renewable-energy subsidies that have hurt Europe. The lowest bid in India’s latest national auction on Dec. 2 came from Solairedirect SA, France’s second-largest producer, which offered to [...]

   
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  Answers to some FAQs about Koodankulam and Nuclear Power

  Environment and Climate Change, Koodankulam, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Waste, Radiation and Health, Safety and Accidents November 22, 2011 11:59 am

  The people are looking for answers to serious questions. Dr. Kalam should answer them respectfully, or restrain himself from speaking.

   
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  Nuclear power: Myths about low cost, safety and emission

  Environment and Climate Change, Safety and Accidents November 21, 2011 12:25 pm

  Former president Dr Abdul Kalam’s effort at mollifying the Kundamkulam protesters has not succeeded.

   
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  India does not need nuclear energy: Top scientist

  Environment and Climate Change, India's Nuclear Expansion, Koodankulam November 7, 2011 12:59 pm

  One of the pioneer nuclear scientists in the country says that India can very well suspend its entire nuclear programme.

   
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  Why Say NO to Nuclear – Prof. Dhirendra Sharma

  Alternatives, Environment and Climate Change, India's Nuclear Expansion, Nuclear Energy, Safety and Accidents November 4, 2011 1:30 pm

  No Parliamentary Committee had discussed the reliability and performance of the “peaceful nuclear” program. Since the safer and economical sources of energy like water, wind and solar are available to us, there is no need to mortgage life and liberties of future generations to potentially hazardous nuclear power.

   
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  Reinventing Fire: Amory Lovins On Creating A Prosperous Economy Without Oil, Coal, Or Nuclear

  Environment and Climate Change October 30, 2011 7:52 pm

  In his new book, “Reinventing Fire,” Lovins creates a system for powering a 21st century civilization without using 20th century methods. Amory Lovins, the chairman of the Rocky Mountain Institute and the author of influential books like Winning the Oil Endgame and Natural Capitalism, is back with a new book–and this time, he’s claiming that [...]

   
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  A Nuclear-Free, Carbon-Free World is Possible!

  Alternatives, Environment and Climate Change September 27, 2011 9:54 pm

  Nix nuclear. Chuck coal. Rebuff biofuel. All we need is the wind, the water, and the sun Article Courtesy: IEEE Spectrum   We don’t need nuclear power, coal, or biofuels. We can get 100 percent of our energy from wind, water, and solar (WWS) power. And we can do it [...]

   
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  Flirting With Catastrophe: Atomic Power in a Destabilized Climate

  Environment and Climate Change, Nuclear Energy July 22, 2011 9:59 pm

  By KEVIN KAMPS The nuclear power industry has spent a lot of money on public relations and national advertizing campaigns aimed at convincing the public and decision makers that atomic energy is a solution to the worsening climate crisis. But extreme weather, likely made more frequent and intense by the [...]

   
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  The lessons of July 16, 1945: Gopalkrishna Gandhi

  Environment and Climate Change, Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Energy, Radiation and Health, Safety and Accidents July 20, 2011 9:25 pm

  The nuclear age — our age — may be said to have begun 66 years ago on this day, July 16, in 1945. Not one but three things happened on that day, giving the world its nuclear teeth. The first was a meeting, the second was a testing, and the [...]

   
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  Germany: A cleantech case study for a post-Fukushima world

  Community Updates, Environment and Climate Change July 11, 2011 4:21 pm

  In the wake of the worst nuclear disaster in a generation, Germany doubled down on a decade of success, pledging to eliminate nukes by 2022 and switch almost exclusively to renewable power by 2050. A report from the front lines. CHRIS TURNER, Mother Nature Network   Even before the full [...]

   
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  Don’t believe the spin on thorium being a ‘greener’ nuclear option

  Environment and Climate Change, Nuclear Energy June 25, 2011 6:35 am

  Eifion Rees It produces less radioactive waste and more power than uranium but the UK would be making a mistake in looking to it as a ‘greener’ fuel. The Ecologist reports.   In a world increasingly aware of and affected by global warming, the news that 2010 was a record [...]

   
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  What’s the Nuclear Energy For, George Monbiot?

  Environment and Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Safety and Accidents, Society and Culture June 22, 2011 12:12 am

  As a result of the disaster at Fukushima, I am no longer nuclear-neutral. I now support the technology. . . . A crappy old plant with inadequate safety features was hit by a monster earthquake and a vast tsunami. The electricity supply failed, knocking out the cooling system. The reactors [...]