David Schwartzman

David Schwartzman is Professor Emeritus, Howard University (biogeochemist, environmental scientist, PhD, Brown University) and an active member of the DC Statehood Green Party/Green Party of the United States. He runs www.solarUtopia.org with his older son Peter Schwartzman.

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A 100 Percent Renewable Energy Transition: Wishful Thinking or Imperative Goal?

A global wind/solar transition especially if implemented in a robust environmental/ecological/health protection regime driven by bottom-up management and control would actually impact less land than the present legacy and infrastructure of fossil fuels/nuclear power. 

A response to “Do Bees Produce Value?”

For the original post, please visit “Do Bees Produce Value?” What a delight to read…

Addressing the “Impossible”

In a prequel to his notorious endorsement of Donald Trump, Slavoj Zizek wrote “Addressing the…

“Green” Capitalism builds Big Solar: Should we throw the baby out with the bathwater?

The creation of a wind/solar energy infrastructure should be welcomed even with its problems, as we cannot wait for the end of the rule of capital to start building this renewable infrastructure.

Should we reject Negative Emissions Technologies, except for organic agriculture?

Whether the carbon is stored in the soil, forests or crust, carbon sequestration from the atmosphere is the only geoengineering approach that is imperative, in order to bring and maintain the atmospheric carbon dioxide level below the safe level of 350 ppm.

COP21: Achievements and challenges to the climate justice movement

On the outcomes of the COP21 Paris Agreement, climate justice activists and scientists generally have very sober assessments.