Dr. MK Dorsey

Getting more electric vehicles on the roads of Minnesota is a laudable goal, but there are serious hurdles and complicated realities the state’s leaders must first face.

The growth of blockchain technologies like cryptocurrencies seem to be doubling each year, and this fast growth has revealed the unintended environmental consequences just as quickly.

It's time to deliver energy justice to Michiganders. To do so we need to rethink and reconfigure dated energy legislation.

Fans of transformative corporate action and business models to enhance health, planetary and human wellbeing have celebrated the work of Emmanuel Faber, the visionary CEO of French food company, Danone.

For many years, even decades, before the current global pandemic, environmental advocates have waged a war against single-use plastic. We’ve been winning that war. More and more consumers are carrying reusable bags for groceries and other shopping items, asking restaurants to use more sustainable materials for take-out containers, and using fewer plastic straws. Homeowners are even rethinking and replacing plastic PVC (polyvinyl chloride) in everything from home siding to piping.

The relative low cost of power produced by renewables has eased today’s economic hardships — and will continue to do so far into the future.

“It’s an unfortunate part of life in Northern California that many families have bags packed ready for a fast escape from wildfires. What’s not expected, though, is that infrastructure critical to the health and safety of communities melts in those fires and contaminates the water supply.”

“It is shortsighted to assume that diesel bans will solve climate challenges, without considering the energy used in other forms of transportation. Some believe such bans will accelerate the push into electric vehicles, but this ignores accessibility, affordability and the impact on poor and working-class families.”

"Enthusiasm about the future of electric vehicles, combined with angst tied to VW’s misdeeds, must not be allowed to taint the discourse surrounding the future of the automobile. Progressive and practical policy solutions that help achieve our ultimate goal of reducing emissions must address the mobility needs of the most marginalised."

“Over time, however, our cars have become safer – thanks to new technologies – and cleaner – thanks to increased CAFE standards. Yet America’s love affair with the automobile continues to be a dilemma for U.S. policymakers...”

Carbon prices have never been high enough to drive the technological innovation to fully stop carbon pollution.

"From cities to national parks, there are thousands of ways that man-made chemicals are invading our most sacred places."

Supporters say nuclear plants are the best way to transition to a low-carbon future. Others argue the plants are too risky to keep in operation.

"The tragedy of Flint has taught us a great deal about how poor governance can lead to a poisoning of a community. It happened after a decade or more of waning attention to crucial environmental concerns down at the level where Americans live, in their neighborhoods and in homes, particularly for the most vulnerable populations."

"Empirically, in the aftermath of the world financial crisis, there is a case to be made that specific pools of finance directly contribute to the worsening climate crisis. Those heavily invested in the fossil fuel sector represent the most obvious example. Other pools of capital and managers of capital offer “climate solutions” yet simultaneously provide financial resources to some of the largest carbon polluters."

The Plan spells out steps to reduce US net greenhouse gas emissions by 30-54% of 2005 levels by 2020 and can drive us to carbon neutrality by 2050.

'Climate Justice' is the name of the new movement that best fuses a variety of progressive political-economic and political-ecological currents to combat the most serious threat humanity and most other species face in the 21st century. The inability of global elite actors to solve major environmental, geopolitical, social and economic problems puts added emphasis on the need for a climate justice philosophy and ideology, principles, strategies and tactics.

Biodiversity interacts with essential and interdependent planetary processes, such as climate change and nitrogen cycles, which are already approaching threshold limits (Nature 461, 472-475; 2009). Bayon and Jenkins's view of existing market-based mechanisms--for example, the European Union (EU) carbon market and biodiversity offsets--is too narrow.

“For us in the small islands, this is an issue of survival–not just for AOSIS but also for LDCs and for all developing countries. In the case of AOSIS, sea-level rise threatens our sovereignty… there is a possibility that our nations will no longer exist in the lifetime of ourchildren and our grandchildren. “

"The world is uneven. The extent of the empirical case for growing, widespread global inequality is so extreme that some scholars characterize the present world configuration as one defined by global apartheid. 1 Tariq Banuri observes that the planet is one big underdeveloped nation, where wealth and resources are concentrated in the hands of a shrinking minority, while immiseration and injustice are socialized and widespread. It is against this backdrop that negotiations to manage the world's… Show more

"The world is uneven. The extent of the empirical case for growing, widespread global inequality is so extreme that some scholars characterize the present world configuration as one defined by global apartheid. 1 Tariq Banuri observes that the planet is one big underdeveloped nation, where wealth and resources are concentrated in the hands of a shrinking minority, while immiseration and injustice are socialized and widespread. It is against this backdrop that negotiations to manage the world's climate unfold." Show less

"Economists, some environmentalists and a growing gaggle of politicians are pushing a grand strategy that a market mechanism — known as "carbon cap and trade" — can rescue us fastest from a climate catastrophe. But early evidence suggests that such a scheme may be a Faustian bargain."

“Bioprospecting—the attempt to identify and eventually commercialize potentially valuable genetic and biochemical resources—is not a new activity. Transnational, commercial flows of medicinal plants date back to the sixteenth century (Ortiz Crespo 1995). What is new about the present transnational resurgence in bioprospecting is that it is driven primarily by four interlocking factors: ...”

“The movement for environmental justice in the United States represents a multi-racial, multi-issue response to the failure of the mainstream, predominantly white environmental movement to adequately address issues of social and economic justice. As early as 1972 Herbert Marcuse warned that divorcing equity and social justice concerns from the environmental agenda would leave environmentalists vulnerable to" effective, if unprincipled attack." The quest for environmental justice has emerged as… Show more

“The movement for environmental justice in the United States represents a multi-racial, multi-issue response to the failure of the mainstream, predominantly white environmental movement to adequately address issues of social and economic justice. As early as 1972 Herbert Marcuse warned that divorcing equity and social justice concerns from the environmental agenda would leave environmentalists vulnerable to" effective, if unprincipled attack." The quest for environmental justice has emerged as a consequence of environmental racism. ...” Show less

“El movimiento por la Justicia Ambiental en los Estados Unidos representa una respuesta multirracial y ...”