The independent energy think-tank Ember published its 4th annual report on global energy today and that’s the big take-away from their findings. The UK organization, founded in 2008, is widely respected for its quantitative analysis. The new report got write-ups in Carbonbrief, Reuters, Euronews, CNN, and more. Key take-aways: Here’s a key chart. What’s your…
Author: Marshall Kirkpatrick
Saving the ocean seabed from mining: What lessons can we learn or apply?
What can we learn from and help with in the debate over opening the deep sea to mining? What produces half the oxygen we breathe and absorbs one-quarter of our carbon dioxide emissions along with more than 93% of excess heat caused by global warming? It’s the ocean! And among the clear risks to ocean…
Discussion: Business & Government Are Not the Only Games in Town
Question: Is shareholder pressure a meaningful lever for change? How can there be more of it? Or are other strategies smarter? NPR reported this morning that corporate shareholders are putting increasing pressure on boards to deal with climate change. Across the United States, shareholders have “filed around 540 proposals as of mid-February asking companies to…
Welcome! Please introduce yourself
Hello! Thanks for joining us here at Sunflower News, a community of people and organizations working on mitigating and adapting to climate change. This post is like our site’s guest book! Our mission is to support the climate movement’s transformation of how societies interact with the planet we’re part of, by connecting organizations and people…
Bright lights: Some of our favorite good news this week
We spend a lot of time scanning Sunflower News feeds here, in support of various projects, and for one of them we capture good news each week. Here are some of our favorite stories we’ve seen in the past week that we think you might find inspiring! These inspiring stories were found and summarized by…
Report: Indigenous Forests Are Some of the Amazon’s Last Carbon Sinks
The World Resources Institute (WRI) has published a new report on the net carbon impact of Amazon forests, finding that areas under management of Indigenous communities and other local people remain big carbon sinks, absorbing carbon from the rest of the world. Areas of the Amazon controlled by other parties, on the other hand, are…
Friday update: What are you working on? How are you?
Hello dear early beta users and friends! We just finished an important Sunflower meeting and I wanted to put up a blog post inviting you to introduce yourself and share with the community what you’ve been working on this week. Want to give it a shot? I’m Marshall Kirkpatrick, founding publisher of Sunflower News, and…
10+ Ways You Can Use What’s on Sunflower News
Want to hear this list explained, with some examples? Here’s a 9 minute walk-through I did. Here at Sunflower News we want to help you overcome information overload, but there’s still a whole lot to read on this site! Once you find something interesting, how can you make use of it? Here are a list…
Gender, transportation, and the climate movement: The story of Autofrei in Germany
We loved a new article in YES! Magazine this week about Volksentscheid Berlin AutoFrei, an inspiring grassroots organization in Germany. Titled Looking to Women to Shape the Future of Berlin’s Transportation, the article discusses the movement in Germany to bring a lens of gender to matters of transportation and urban planning. “The Autofrei initiative argues…
Inspiration from South Australia: 104% renewable energy for a week
“South Australia aims to reach 100 per cent ‘net renewables’ within a few years – over a full year,” Giles Parkinson wrote this week in Renew Economy, “but in the past week it has already done better than that.” Parkinson reported that the region has in fact been averaging 104.1 per cent of consumer demand over the seven days prior filled by renewable sources.
What lessons, inspirations, or concerns come to your mind regarding the important work being done in South Australia regarding transition to renewables?