The Good Future Project
The Good Future is entirely possible – we just need to make the right decisions today!
recent posts
- Don’t be a doomer! Good read via Noah Smith
- The Threat to Higher Education: Who’s to Blame for Endangered Careers? – by Juan Alvarez
- Chat GPT: The Over-Hyped Threat to Skilled Labor and the Ignored Threat to Unskilled Labor – (Juan Alvarez)
- We Need to Radically Rethink Conscious Awareness (by Charles M. Johnston M.D.)
- Brave New World 3.0 – by Tim Cole
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Category: Climate & Carbon
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A new paper inverts the costs of a clean energy system.
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The Sunrise Movement cofounder shares lessons on how to grow political power
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In the novel, Robinson introduces a carbon coin, inspired by a conceptual framework designed by Delton Chen, founder of the Global Carbon Reward Initiative. Today, the need for an IMF Climate Stablecoin has become even more pressing.
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Most people now accept that to avoid a climate disaster, the world has to get to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
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A Swedish energy company called SeaTwirl is flipping the offshore wind model on its head—not quite literally, but almost—and betting it will be able to deliver cheap renewable energy and make a profit along the way. SeaTwirl is one of several companies developing vertical-axis wind turbines, and one of just a couple developing them for…
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All across the African continent a colonial approach of extraction and exploitation continues to plague and paralyse economies. It pushes ecosystems to the edge and puts pan-Africanism on a back burner.
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A water battery capable of storing electricity equivalent to 400,000 electric car batteries will begin operating in Switzerland next week. The pumped storage power plant was built into a subterranean cavern in the Swiss canton of Valais. With the ability to store and generate vast quantities of hydroelectric energy, the battery will play an important…
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California is home to about 4,000 miles of canals. For decades these complex networks have delivered more than 600 million gallons of water per day to agricultural areas and to residents throughout the state. At the same time, California’s water supply has dwindled. Rising temperatures, groundwater depletion, and decreased precipitation have resulted in an unprecedented,…
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Gramitherm chose grass as a raw material as it is a highly efficient thermal insulator with an estimated lifetime of at least 50 years. The panels are also an efficient means of storing the carbon dioxide captured by the grass during its lifetime. In fact, Gramitherm’s insulation captures 1.5 kilogrammes of carbon dioxide equivalent per…