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Unpacking Energy Resilience: The Role of Holistic Frameworks in Facing Extreme Weather Events and Future Challenges

Unpacking Energy Resilience: The Role of Holistic Frameworks in Facing Extreme Weather Events and Future Challenges

Have you ever wondered what energy resilience means and how we can prepare for the future while facing extreme weather events? In this week’s blog, PhD Student Spilios Iliopoulos from the Division of Environmental Technology and Management at Linköping University, shares his thoughts about energy resilience and the important role of having in place holistic frameworks, whilst facing extreme weathe ...[Read More]

The Great Green Paradox

The Great Green Paradox

The sustainable and responsible use of mineral resources is a challenging task, yet essential for the benefit of our society. In this week’s blog, Dr. Νicholas Vafeas, an economic Geologist with a rich background in energy and mineral resources policy, shares his views on the urgent need to develop a holistic approach that can help integrate sustainable practises without posing any further risks t ...[Read More]

Democratising Climate Information

Democratising Climate Information

How can we ensure a greener and more equitable future for everyone in the forthcoming years? In this week’s blog, Professor Monica Sanders from Georgetown University and Tulane University shares her thoughts on how and why we need to democratise climate information towards the general public and primarily to the divested communities that are being impacted the most by this global climate crisis.  ...[Read More]

The Sassy Scientist – Unbelievable Lunacies

The Sassy Scientist – Unbelievable Lunacies

Being the reasonable, far-sighted and moderate entity that it is, humanity is irreversibly destroying the habitability of the planet it was given. I hope (man, I *hope*) I don’t have to convince anybody about this *fact*. Most of us are not concerned about this. Some of us are a tad concerned about the fact that the  IPCC has declared that keeping the excess temperature below 1.5 degrees has ...[Read More]

The Sassy Scientist – To A Galaxy Far Far Away

The Sassy Scientist – To A Galaxy Far Far Away

Jesper has a lot of green on his mind. No not money, you capitalists. Nature. The environment. Basil and chives. With the recent advent of billionaires finding new ways to caress their egos, and in a totally-not-aiming-to-start-mining-other-celestial-bodies kinda way, Jesper has some troubled thoughts: Should we really colonize other planets? We are already destroying this one… Dear Jesper, Sure. ...[Read More]

The Sassy Scientist – Climate Change Causality

The Sassy Scientist – Climate Change Causality

Tom Doehne has been watching the news reports on the effects of climate change on human civilization. Dumbfounded that the main stream has not peered beyond the variable intensity of weather patterns and the mere notion of rising sea levels, he pondered: Will the increase in ocean level trigger more slippage along subduction zones? Dear Tom, In terms of geophysical research angles this really is a ...[Read More]

Adaption

Adaption

As temperature records have continuously been broken all over the world, many of us scientist had to endure extreme conditions in our overheated offices. Climate change is happening, and faster than we’d like to think, but how does this play a role in the scientific community? In this week’s blog post, geodynamicist Nicolas Coltice (professor at Ecole Normale Superieure de Paris) share ...[Read More]