Energy in the 21st Century -- General Links

Check out the following websites, magazines, and blogs that specialize on sustainable energy, environmental issues, and science news. Be sure to look at the comment sections where applicable -- always great informed views and ideas on the latest in green living. E21NS is a link library, directing readers to articles on energy from news outlets around the world. Here are some suggested books to ramp up on the essential ideas about clean, sustainable living. We are all the first step to change. And check out The Truth About Energy: Our fossil-fuel addiction and the transition to renewables, Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Tech 24, France 24 - A weekly TV program highlighting the latest in technology, sustainability, and innovation.

EcoSolutions, CNN - A monthly look at the answers to various green problems across the globe.

earthrise, Al Jazeera - eco-friendly solutions from around the world to reduce our negative impact on the earth.

CleantechNews, Clean Technica - covering the cleantech industry since 2008 before it was popular for mainstream media.

DeSmogBlog, DeSmog - Clearing the PR pollution that clouds climate science.

EcoWatch - original content and curated news from over 50 outlets on important environmental issues.

GreenTech Media, gtm: - daily reports, market research, and news on electricity systems, green technology, and green jobs.

UNFCCC (United Nations) - The UN framework convention on climate change, the international treaty begun after the Rio Earth Summit in 1992.

IPCC (United Nations) - set up in 1988 by WMO and UNEP to provide policymakers with regular assessments of the scientific basis of climate change, currently in its Sixth Assessment cycle.

Climate Change Indicators, EPA - Heavy precipitation, tropical cyclone activity,river flooding, drought, sea level, coastal flooding, ocean acidity, ....

Earth Observatory, NASA - Image of the Day!, natural hazards, and global maps.

Climate 101, The Climate Reality Project - The basics of climate change: resources, activities, videos (the science is settled).

Truth in 10 (download slides) from Truth to Power - Effective slides for a climate change talk, created by Al Gore from his sequel to An Inconvenient Truth.

The Guardian - News, sports, business, opinion, analysis, and reviews from the world's leading liberal voice.

CounterPunch - Muckraking with a radical attitude. No ads, no clickbait, no compromise.

About the author
John K. White received a B.Sc. in Applied Physics from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and a Ph.D. from University College Dublin, Ireland.

He has worked around the world as a physicist, lecturer, project manager, and computational analyst over a 40-year career. He has worked as a project manager and technical writer for Sun Microsystems, The Netherlands Organization, and Berminghammer Foundation Equipment, consultant for Interactive Image Technologies, ScotiaBank, and the Ontario Government, and as a lecturer and research fellow at University College Dublin, and has analyzed game playing strategies, from professional sports teams to the stock market as well as many other thought provoking systems.

He is also active in promoting physics and numeracy in schools, and has published widely in academic journals, contributed chapters to edited volumes, and authored numerous technical publications. Born in Dublin, Ireland, he grew up in Toronto, Canada, and now lives and works in Gijón, Asturias.

The Truth About Energy: Our fossil-fuel addiction and the transition to renewables

John K. White
Softcover, 720 pages, Cambridge University Press (2024)

We are at the beginning of a revolution, as profound as the IT revolution and the advent of the microchip in the 1960s. The ET or Energy Technology revolution isn't advancing as fast or as easily, however, with an entrenched carbon economy still at the forefront of everyday use, led by an old-world, fossil-fuel industry, despite decreasing oil supplies and the increasing consequences of harmful emissions. Institutional change comes slowly. Revolutions are disruptive. They change everything.