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Electrify Everything Start with the major ways that most US households warm the planet. We drive. We heat homes. We cook food. We dry clothes. These activities require millions and millions of machines, most of which now run on fossil fuels. To decarbonize, they all will need to run on electricity.

Derek Thompson • Abundance: THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER: How We Build a Better Future

As Bill McKibben wrote recently, the best thing you can do to prepare yourself for climate change is live in an area with a high degree of social trust.

We’ve come through 75 years where having neighbors was essentially optional: if you had a credit card, you could get everything you needed to survive dropped off at your front door. But the next 75

Rosie Spinks • The Friendship Problem

If industry prevails and we stick with a business-as-usual scenario — and pretty much all data indicates this is what we are doing — we’ll blow through our carbon budget in less than seven years.9 Global temperature rise will continue on its trajectory of 3°C10 increase or worse by the end of the century, and, in environmentalist Bill McKibben’s wo

Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor

Climate Futures

Various impacts of climate change on the world of our children and grandchildren.

Creighton • 33 cards

Andrew: The subtitle of your blog is “Our days are numbered. Passionately pursue a life of excellence.”

Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor

“The Case for Letting Malibu Burn,” a chapter from Ecology of Fear, Davis argued that taxpayers shouldn’t keep forking out to rebuild a wealthy district that predictably burned to the ground every couple of decades. Davis

Rosecrans Baldwin • Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles

In order to build efficient, combustion-based generators, we needed to build them at economies of scale and extensive transmission and distribution networks to transport power along with them. Those wires are vulnerable to being knocked out by storms (or even squirrels), leading to blackouts, or supply shortages leading to cascading failure. That w... See more

James McGinniss • AOE Part II: DERs and Local Resilience

He went on to rethink modern architecture from a biological perspective and later publicly broke with the environmental movement over nuclear power and GMO food.

John Markoff • Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand

Climate catastrophe is coming. We know this. What we don’t know is how bad it will be. In the best case scenario, an unprecedented global Green New Deal rapidly transitions the world economy off of carbon, holding global temperature rise under 3°C.61 This causes large-scale polar ice melt, 12 inches of sea level rise by 2050,62 and major habitat di