Archive - Sustain What

An Update on an Unrelenting "Pulp Fiction": Utility-Scale Wood Burning as a Climate Fix

Sometimes reams of great reporting doesn't change things on the ground.

Jul 24 •

It’s Alive!!!

After many months of scratching at its shell, pecking more insistently with each passing day, it finally happened.

Published on The Catbird Seat • Jul 20

As Democrats Face Risky, Momentous Choices in 2024, What's Don Quixote Got to Do With It?

Update, 7/21/24, 2:45 p.m.. - Joe Biden demonstrated the toughest kind of courage on Sunday - by not pressing forward into the breach - and chose to…

Jul 18 •

Pathways to Crosstalk, and Impact, in Perilously Polarized Times

Democracy, along with a former and possible future president, barely dodged a bullet over the weekend.

Jul 15 •

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Weaponizing youth mental health

Congressional action on social media regulation does not require resolving controversy in psychology. It may even help young people.

Published on Conflicted • Jul 12

When Prominent Scientists Get Ahead of the Science in Search of Impact - From Smartphones to Climate

The Editor of the Journal Science explores a troubling tendency

Jul 11 •

Paul Brannen's book has made me rethink the way I look at wood.

Published on Carbon Upfront! • Jul 11

The Best Path Past Paralysis on Climate and Clean Energy is Starting Where There's Agreement - as with Enhanced Geothermal

We’re in a tough moment in America, facing a momentous fork in the road at the level of the White House, a weakened capacity for government to help…

Jul 9 •

An Independence Day Like No Other...

As I ponder the state of American politics on this Independence Day, all I can think of is this weird scene my wife Lisa and I encountered in 2021…

Jul 4 •

SCOTUS completes the biggest power grab in modern US history

What balance of power?

Published on Public Notice • Jul 1

June 2024

The Environmental Trinity

A guest post by Jesse H. Ausubel, Director, Program for the Human Environment at The Rockefeller University

Published on The Honest Broker • Jun 23

A Challenge to a Flexing Role for Nuclear Energy Amid Grid Growth of Renewables

Longtime renewable-energy maven Amory Lovins offers a reply to nuclear maven Matt Wald

Jun 22 •

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