Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation Patrick Craine   United States   The house reduces its footprint to a minimum and functions as an environmental mediator – collecting water from the roof and releasing it during dry periods or when salinity and toxicity increase – to protect the island from the effects of climate ch

Bloomberg    Norman Foster, the British architect famous for building airports, minimized the aviation industry’s impact on climate change in an interview with Bloomberg. “I would argue that everything has a footprint, and in relative terms, the carbon footprint

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The American Jason W. Moore and the Swedish Andreas Malm are part of what they call ‘radical academy,’ a group of Marxist writers who teach on both sides of the Atlantic. Capitalism in the Web of Life and Fossil Capital present complementary (and som

Eduardo Prieto   Facts keep contradicting those who still hold, with the obstinacy of those who know they’re wrong, that ecology, sustainability, and ‘green thinking’ at large are fads condemned to intellectual extinction. In times of climate woes, this Zeitgeist exp

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Catastrophe, disaster, apocalypse: amid the existential fear instilled by climate change, pandemics, and artificial intelligence, a group of authors encourages us to contemplate the future of humanity with active optimism. The risks that threaten the

The Economist   By the standards of the 21st century as a whole, 2021 will almost certainly go down as a comparatively cool year. By the standards of the rest of human history its weather looks disconcertingly like hell. On July 20th, as Belgium, Germany, the Nether

The New York Times   Shivani Vora   Increasingly, architects and builders are thinking about how their creations affect the health of the planet. Kunle Adeyemi has built his career around that question. Born in Kaduna, in northern Nigeria, Mr. Adeyemi, 45, is known for his sustainable

The Economist   Norrland is the largest of Sweden’s three historical “lands”. It spans the top half of the country and is sparsely populated, the more so the farther north you go. The few people who live there have long relied for work on mining, the army and forest

The Economist   Decarbonising an economy is a big job. Coal- and gas-fired power plants must be swapped for wind, solar or nuclear ones. Petrol-driven cars must be replaced by electric versions. Less attention is paid to heating. But in cold countries such as Britai

The Guardian   Amanda Sturgeon   Buildings covered in plants do more than just make the cityscape attractive – they contribute to human wellbeing and action on climate change. Our cities are dominated by glass-faced edifices that overheat like greenhouses then guzzle energy to cool

The Economist   Politics, otto von bismarck is supposed to have said, is the art of the possible. And one of the most depressing features of discussions about global warming is their tendency to take place in a fantasy land of the politically impossible. Few people

The Economist   If all goes well, a balloon will soon rise from Esrange Space Center in Kiruna, Sweden. It will drift high into the upper atmosphere, where nothing will happen. The balloon will then return to Earth. Nevertheless, a collection of environmental groups

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