Positive Future #758 (Feature photo – Clean Air Buttons – Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=167450) It is not secret that coal plants emit particle pollution that has been linked to respiratory health. Inhabitat news portal brings news of how Sweden and Austria just closed their last coal plants. Now three nations in Europe are coal-free – Belgium,…
Positive Future #689 (Feature photo – Oil Well – CCA SA 3.0 Unported ) Len Rosen of 21st Century Teck weighs in on a report from the Atomic Scientists. The media group proposes and end to new fossil fuel exploration and development and a transfer of government fossil fuel subsidies to the industry. The report…
Positive Future #642 (Feature photo – The Swiss National Parliament – courtesy of http://www.parlament.ch) EnergyMix news portal brings us the story of the Swiss Parliament which is on a course of action to arrest climate change. As part of its efforts, plans are to instruct the Swiss National Bank (Switzerland’s central bank) to divest itself…
Positive Future #585 (Feature photo – Activists blocking a Coal Mine in Germany – CCA SA 4.0 International Rikuti) News portal ALT Energy Stocks looks at a recent research paper in which the New York State Pension Fund is $22 billion poorer by not divesting itself from fossil fuel investments 10 years ago. One wonders,…
