CONTENTS
Positive energy Issue 335 November/December 2022
Inesperado (2018) by Juan Genovés © DACS 2022 www.juangenoves.com
1 WELCOME
FEATURE STORY
4 WE ARE STARDUST Knowing how energy determines our lives could help shape how we use it, writes Brendan Montague
“We must find new ways of using energy, of organising societies based on that use of energy”
ECOLOGIST
10 EDITORS’ PICKS 11 NUCLEAR WEAKNESS Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is putting nuclear power under pressure, writes Jim Green 12 THE PRICE OF NET ZERO Russell Warfield interrogates
Dieter Helm’s solutions to the energy and climate crises 16 WATERSHED MOMENT Water demand is a major blind spot on the road to net zero, writes Adam Wentworth
CONNECTED LIFE
20 AMAZON AVENGERS Felipe Viveros meets the next generation of Indigenous Earth defenders 24 THE RUSH FOR ‘WHITE GOLD’ Communities in the Lithium
Triangle are being left behind, writes Leah Thomas
POSITIVE ACTION
26 COMMUNITY ENERGY
Amid multiple crises, we need to put power into local hands, writes Skye Frewin 28 STREETS AHEAD Rachel Marsh reports on an innovative new solar project 30 POWER IN A UNION Protecting jobs and the planet can be part of the same fight, writes Kate Bradley
32 THE HUMAN TRANSITION Photographer Joan Sullivan focuses on the people behind the technology 34 EMPOWERING LOCAL
POLITICS New guidance helps councils plan for a net zero future, reports Catherine Early
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2 Resurgence & Ecologist
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