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Let's join the Santa Cruz Rebellion!
Oped, Joe Mathews, Published on 02/06/2025
» I want to move Santa Cruz to join the rebellion. Wanna come along?
LA fires reveal limits of California's utility fund
News, Mark Chediak & Eliyahu Kamisher, Published on 21/01/2025
» Financial losses from the devastating Los Angeles wildfires are mounting after the blazes incinerated entire neighbourhoods and destroyed thousands of homes. And now, investors are growing increasingly concerned that a US$21 billion (720 billion baht) state fund crafted to backstop utilities will fall far short of what's needed if companies are found liable.
How California can tear the fascists down
Oped, Joe Mathews, Published on 16/11/2024
» I walked up on a mountain in the middle of the sky
Embrace fair play
Oped, Postbag, Published on 06/08/2024
» Re: "Gender woes in sports", (PostBag, Aug 4). Miro King, in support of real women, is right to be upset about the Olympic boxing matches. There seems to be unfairness in the match between Angela Carini and Imane Khelif, who was born a woman, albeit with male-genetic XY chromosomes.
Climate change: the August deadline
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 03/08/2024
» When you spend four years writing a book on climate change, you get to know most of the leading players. I have never seen them so dismayed.
The gigantic 'anomaly' in climate change
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 30/03/2024
» It was bound to happen some time, and the time could well be now. We know that when there was strong warming on our planet (like at the end of the last Ice Age about 11,000 years ago), there were sudden big leaps in the global temperature. It wasn't a smooth process at all.
High hopes for hydrogen economy
News, Gavin Maguire, Published on 27/10/2023
» Hydrogen bulls have taken a beating recently, with the International Energy Agency (IEA) cutting demand for the fuel in key forecasts and oil major Shell announcing job cuts and reduced scale in its hydrogen business.
Grid specialist companies on investors' radar
News, Gavin Maguire, Published on 20/10/2023
» A detailed report on the state of the world's electric grids has revealed that investment in the critical transmission networks has lagged the growth in renewable energy generation, and poses a severe bottleneck risk for the global energy transition.
Fight to save local journalism
News, Laura Tyson and Lenny Mendonca, Published on 02/10/2023
» The Washington Post's famous slogan, "Democracy Dies in Darkness", is sadly coming true in many parts of the United States. The digital age has shattered newspapers' business model, turning many communities into "news deserts" with no local journalism. Some 2,500 daily or weekly newspapers have folded since 2005, and there are now fewer than 6,500 left. Every week, two more disappear.
A political stunt?
Oped, Postbag, Published on 26/08/2023
» Re: "10,000 Buddhist monks in Hat Yai for mass alms offerings", (BP, Aug 20).