Climate Solutions
The SolarCycle Diaries aims to create discussion about climate change solutions around the UN Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, December 2009.
The team have focussed on solar power as, each hour, not only does the sun beam enough energy to satisfy global needs for an entire year but the technologies for harnessing its rays have already been tried, tested and proven.
However, they also believe that solar power is only part of the solution. During the expedition the team will also be researching and exploring other climate change solutions. These include:
- Other types of renewable energy
- Increased energy efficiency
- Combined heat and power systems
- Carbon capture and sequestration
- Reforestation, wetlands and natural carbon sinks
- Putting an economic cost on protecting the environment
- Political Cooperation
- Social Change
Please see recommended further reading below. This section will be continuously updated. All suggestions are gratefully received.
Ten Technologies to Save the World - New Scientist’s overview of Chris Goodall’s outstanding book. “Ten Technologies is superb - it cuts like lightning through the myths and muddled thinking surrounding energy issues. It is vital, topical, and a very fresh approach.” - Mark Lynas
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: What Can Be Done - UN site detailing potential solutions, what has already been achieved, what has not worked and current UN events and issues.
The Green New Deal Group - The global economy is facing a ‘triple crunch’. It is a combination of a credit-fuelled financial crisis, accelerating climate change and the looming peak in oil production. To help prevent this from happening, and to lay the foundations of the economic systems of the future, we need a Green New Deal.
Without the Hot Air - David MacKay’s much lauded book discussing the potential of a low-carbon future. “This remarkable book sets out, with enormous clarity and objectivity, the various alternative low-carbon pathways that are open to us.” Sir David King - UK Chief Scientific Adviser 2000-08
