by Amy McMorrow Hunter | Mar 3, 2020 | Climate Change, Climate Equity - Just Transitions, Collaboration, Education, Entrepreneurship, Jobs, Resilience, Visions of The Climate Economy, Women
It’s time for women to take over and fix the problems that have become too large for society to ignore, including violence against women, social inequality, and the theft of future generations’ resources, all of course exacerbated by climate change....
by Amy McMorrow Hunter | Feb 24, 2020 | Clean Energy, Climate Equity - Just Transitions, Electric Vehicles, Energy Efficiency, Externalities, Transportation
A major talking point of electric vehicle naysayers is that lithium-ion batteries are bad for the environment and not able to be recycled. This is mostly correct, and is leaving out the biggest problem. The materials for these batteries are coming primarily from...
by Amy McMorrow Hunter | Sep 18, 2019 | Clean Energy, Climate Equity - Just Transitions, Electricity, Energy Efficiency, Jobs
According to ClimateNexus, there were about 3,155,933 “clean energy” jobs in the US in 2018: (To increase the size of the text in the images, hit Ctrl and + as many times as you need, then to get it back to normal size hit Ctrl and -.) These numbers match...
by Amy McMorrow Hunter | Sep 16, 2019 | Clothing, Food, Fossil Fuels, Resilience, Security
Recently, a bunch of oil blew up in Saudia Arabia, so suddenly US shale oil producers are all: OK let’s ramp up production, more oil and natural gas! How about an alternative to that option, since: Nearly half of U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions are from...
by Amy McMorrow Hunter | Sep 10, 2019 | Carbon Footprint, Climate Equity - Just Transitions, Start
Consider this: @AssaadRazzouk An American’s fridge uses 458 kw/h per year. That’s 7 times more electricity than the average Ethiopian uses in total in one year 3 times a Nigerian or Kenyan 1 times a Pakistani a or a Bangladeshi 57% of an Indian or...
