Next Generation, the Post Carbon Institute, and Physicians, Scientists and Engineers for Healthy Energy invite you to join a panel discussion on the energy and economic potential of California’s Monterey Shale formation.

Next Generation, the Post Carbon Institute, and Physicians, Scientists and Engineers for Healthy Energy invite you to join a panel discussion on the energy and economic potential of California’s Monterey Shale formation.

Cultural life in America, post World War II, revolved around the private ownership of an automobile. Cars remain the predominant mode of personal transportation favored throughout the 50 states, but a growing body of research reveals America’s love affair with the auto is cooling down.

Low-income, rural Californians, whose older vehicles are responsible for a significant portion of the state’s air pollution, are at risk of being left behind even as California pursues a range of strong sustainable transportation initiatives.

California’s high-tech, best-in-class transportation strategies risk unintentionally leaving out an important segment of the population: the sizeable, largely low-income subset of Californians who cannot afford electric cars or reach public transportation.

Next Generation Vice President and Risky Business Executive Director Kate Gordon today prodded an assembly of utility managers to consider the risks of climate change in their long-range planning, during a panel discussion on climate risks at the annual Winter Committee Meetings of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC).

We all know that one weather event can't be tied to climate change. But there is no doubt that we are in the grip of major climate change and likely seeing the “new normal” that we will face in California – increased heat, less precipitation, more wildfires, poor air quality, rising coastal waters – all of which will have a dramatic impact on major sectors of the state's economy.

The leak of the chemical into the Elk River effectively shut down Charleston, the capital city of West Virginia —closing schools, government buildings and local businesses.

Leaders from across the American political and business spectrum will review the initiative’s independent climate risk assessment and share its findings with the industries, regions, and market segments that face the greatest risks from unmitigated climate change.

Despite the ‘self-imposed ‘retirement of Dave Roberts and the dismantling by the New York Times of its climate desk and discontinuance of its Green Blog, it was a banner year for media coverage of climate change – increasing by 30 percent in 2013.