Renewable Energy

The End of Scarcity? From ‘Polycrisis’ to Planetary Phase Shift

We are all feeling it. Grief, despair, anxiety, chaos. This essay, which distils the planetary phase shift framework, gives you the tools to see through the chaos to recognise emerging possibilities of a new system that could enable superabundance beyond our wildest imaginations.

39 min read

We’re Crossing a Global Tipping Point on Fossil Fuels and There’s No Going Back

The post-oil genie's out of the bottle. It ain't ever going back. Get ready for the new world that's emerging.

6 min read

From BRICS, to Africa, to COP28, we're scaling a geopolitical 'turning point' on climate

A global consensus is emerging – among both clean energy pioneers and even some of the world’s biggest fossil fuel producers – that the age of oil is over, and that we must do all we can to accelerate the clean transformation of the global energy system in a way that is just.

13 min read

Debating the transition: will materials undo clean energy?

I got into a debate about whether we have enough materials for the clean energy transition with someone who I fundamentally disagree with - and we managed to talk it through to create a shared understanding about our emerging post-carbon future

3 min read

Bangladesh Can Leapfrog the West through Solar Abundance

As I travel to Bangladesh, the home of my ancestors, I reflect on how a country struggling to emerge from the ravages of colonisation faces the unprecedented opportunity to become a solar super power

14 min read

The Coming Dawn of a Global Solar Civilisation

We can build a new clean energy system based on distributed abundance and empathic intelligence that helps us solve some of our biggest challenges

14 min read

Why transformation of the global energy system is now unstoppable

We've passed a global energy transition tipping point making dominance of solar, wind and batteries inevitable and irreversible within decades. A whole new system is being born. But technology alone can't save us: we need a collective shift in mindset, values and governance.

16 min read

The Future of Human Civilisation is African

Africa is one of the most vulnerable regions in the world to climate change. But the biggest untold story is that Africa represents the future of global civilisation, and the key to a new era of unimaginable abundance within planetary boundaries.

10 min read

The Fossil Fuel Energy Cliff and the Great Oversimplification

Recent claims that renewables represent an inevitable energy descent are derived from a new form of 'energy blindness' that ignores the best EROI systems science.

19 min read

Energy transformation won’t be derailed by lack of raw materials

A 1,000 page report influencing IMF, UN and EU policymakers claims we don't have enough materials to support a global shift to clean energy. But the report is deeply flawed, based on indefensible unscientific assumptions, and totally ignores key scientific findings.

33 min read

Ex-chief of BP-acquired solar giant foresees renewables revolution

A new paradigm of ‘planetary ecology’ might emerge after 2050

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
6 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

100% renewables: ‘wishful thinking’ or an imperative goal?

  • David W. Schwartzman
12 min read
David W. Schwartzman

We’ll always have the Sun: solar energy and the future of humankind

  • Ugo Bardi
5 min read
Ugo Bardi

Uncertainty is the best tool to navigate toward our post-carbon future

Why confronting the limits to knowledge about complex systems can enhance our capacity to learn

  • Josh Floyd
8 min read
Josh Floyd

What’s really driving the global economic crisis is net energy decline

And there’s no going back. So let’s step into the future.

  • Jonathan Rutherford
11 min read
Jonathan Rutherford

Can economic growth continue without fossil fuels? The IPCC thinks so — here’s why its decarbonisation models are broken

  • Graham Palmer
4 min read
Graham Palmer

How clean is ‘clean energy’? Renewables cannot solve the global crisis

  • Saral Sarkar
10 min read
Saral Sarkar

How the renewable energy transition could usher in an economic revolution

  • Felix FitzRoy
8 min read
Felix FitzRoy

Why 100% renewable energy is feasible

  • Mark Diesendorf
11 min read
Mark Diesendorf

Why renewable energy matters: for your health, your job, and your safety

  • Sergio Gonzalez
10 min read
Sergio Gonzalez

Solar can already generate more energy than oil, says major scientific review

And is twice as powerful than previously thought

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
4 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed

EU energy targets will ‘increase greenhouse gas emissions’

New renewable energy plan undercuts itself by boosting dangerous wood-burning industries

  • Nafeez M Ahmed
3 min read
Nafeez M Ahmed