[GWSG] GM to go electric; DONG goes renewable; IEA forecasts; Catholic divestment; Monbiot on livestock; shrimp plastics

[Tilley, Al]

1. "General Motors believes the future is all electric." GM plans to introduce twenty new electric vehicles in the next five years. https://www.wired.com/story/general-motors-electric-cars-plan-gm/



2. Danish Oil and Natural Gas, DONG, has divested from fossil fuels and is changing its name to Ørsted (after the Danish physicist who discovered that electric currents generate magnetic fields).  https://cleantechnica.com/2017/10/03/dong-energy-changes-name-orsted-wake-fossil-fuel-divestment/ (If your font does not have the slashed Danish O, the name is often written 'Oersted' in English.)

 Ørsted, the world's largest producer of offshore wind power, believes that large European companies are increasingly interested in purchasing renewable power directly from its producers. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-dong-energy-renewables/dong-energy-sees-european-renewable-power-purchase-market-taking-off-idUSKCN1C726S Perhaps utilities will become more purely power managers.



3. The International Energy Agency forecasts that renewables will constitute a third of the world's energy production in five years. https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/iea-report-renewables-third-global-generation#gs.Zf1TOEU

But since 2002 the IEA's track record in forecasting renewables' growth has been laughably conservative. https://www.sciencealert.com/one-chart-shows-how-solar-energy-growth-is-skyrocketing-compared-to-predictions?perpetual=yes&limitstart=1



4. On the anniversary of the death of St. Francis of Assisi, institutions of the Catholic Church are to make record divestments of fossil fuels. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/03/catholic-church-to-make-record-divestment-from-fossil-fuels



5. George Monbiot sees raising livestock for food as the ecological equivalent of mining coal and the moral equivalent of slavery. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/04/livestock-farming-artificial-meat-industry-animals



6. A compostable plastic made from shrimp shells and wood could replace the plastics now pervading our environment. http://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2017/09/biodegradable-plastic-from-shrimp-shells/ ?

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