About the editor
Peter Fairley has reported on global energy and technology developments for a decade, tracking the story from the coalfields of Inner Mongolia to the unlit villages of Bolivia’s Cordillera Real. His byline appears regularly in both print and online publications, including Discover, MIT’s Technology Review, IEEE Spectrum, among others. He is also a frequent commentator on innovation and the environment and has appeared on national broadcasts in the U.S. and Canada via such news programs NPR’s Talk of the Nation and CBC Newsworld and has spoken on energy innovation to university, professional and business organizations. Before taking up independent writing Peter served as Washington Bureau Chief for Chemical Week, chronicling the global chemical industry’s collision with the environment. He holds a Masters in science, health & environmental reporting from New York University, a B.S. in molecular biology from McGill, and serves as an elected director of the Society of Environmental Journalists. Find out more via Peter’s online portfolio, read his chapter on renewable energy in Fueling the Future, or explore his book on the science behind electricity: Electricity & Magnetism, a narrative of the field’s greatest discoveries and inventions for Grade 6 readers and up.
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Selected Reporting by Peter Fairley
- Carbon Capture / Offsets: “Carbon Capture Moves Ahead”
- Carbon Capture / Enhanced oil recovery: “Carbon Dioxide for Sale”
- Carbon Capture / Status snapshot: “Where Europe Buries Carbon”
- Coal / Gasification: “China’s Coal Future”
- Coal / Polygeneration: “Syn City”
- Coal / Synthetic gas: “Cheaper Natural Gas from Coal”
- Efficiency / Behavior: “Does Daylight Saving Time Save Energy?”
- Efficiency / Negawatts: “Gadgets to Spur Energy Conservation”
- Efficiency / Standards: “The New CAFE Standards”
- EVs / Mandating innovation: “California to Rule On Fate of EVs”
- EVs / Electric bicycles: “China’s Cyclists Take Charge”
- EVs / Diesel hybrids: “The Next Prius?”
- EVs / Toyota profile: “Hybrids’ Rising Sun”
- Fuels / Biomass gasification: “Growing Biofuels”
- Fuels / Tarsands: “Digging a Carbon Hole for Canada”
- Geothermal / Heat mining: “Tapping Rocks for Power”
- Geothermal / Exploration: “Prospecting for Power”
- Nuclear / Waste reduction: “Cleaner Nuclear Power?”
- Nuclear / Waste recycling: “Nuclear Wasteland”
- Nuclear / Fusion: “Does Fusion Have a Future?”
- Power Grids / Blackouts: “The Unruly Power Grid”
- Power Grids / Control: “A Smarter Power Grid”
- Power Grids / Energy storage: “Fixing the Power Grid”
- Power Grids / Gridlock: “TransÉnergie: Playing Two Power Games”
- Power Grids / Renewables: “A Supergrid for Europe”
- Seapower / Tides: “Tidal Turbines Help Light Up Manhattan”
- Solar / Concentrating: “A Sharper Focus for Photovoltaics”
- Solar / Thermal: “Solar without the Panels”
- Solar / Building integration: “Design Power”
- Solar / Plastic photovoltaics: “Solar-Cell Rollout”
- Solar / Rural: “Lighting Up the Andes”
- Solar / High efficiency: “Ultraefficient Photovoltaics”
- Strategy / Corporate: “The Greening of GE”
- Strategy / Public policy: “Germany’s Green-Energy Gap”
- Strategy / Carbon finance: “Carbon Trading On the Cheap”
- Wind / Offshore: “Turbines Safe for Birds”
- Wind / Offshore: “Wind Power That Floats”
- Wind / Limits: “Can Wind Energy Continue Double-Digit Growth?”
Principles of journalism: Carbon-Nation aspires to uphold the standards and meet the responsibilities outlined by the Committee of Concerned Journalists in its 2001 Principles of Journalism.
