Ian Morse

Jan 8, 2025 | greenrocks.substack.com | Ian Morse

Climate technologies require enormous amounts of metal. I’m Ian Morse, and this is Green Rocks, a newsletter that doesn’t want dirty mining to ruin clean energy. By my count, there have been four books on the demands that certain climate actions put on mining production. There’s Volt Rush, which I reviewed in 2022 alongside a battery and transportation book. There’s Pitfall, the author of which joined me in Green Rocks’ first podcast and in the keynote conference session linked at the bottom.

May 9, 2024 | greenrocks.substack.com | Ian Morse

Climate technologies require enormous amounts of metal. I’m Ian Morse, and this is Green Rocks, a newsletter that doesn’t want dirty mining to ruin clean energy. First, a note to check out a Mongabay webinar in which I and SIRGE Coalition member Galina Angarova discuss some tips on investigating the grand world of ‘energy transition minerals’. It’s aimed at journalists, but it includes insights in the field from a variety of perspectives, so Mongabay put it in podcast form, too.

Apr 1, 2024 | corporateknights.com | Ian Morse

Ford and Mercedes-Benz lead the automotive world in working to clean up their supply chains, according to a new report with rankings endorsed by a labor and environmental civil society coalition. But the car industry is far from achieving a “truly clean car” and progress is “lackluster,” the scorecard notes. Car companies are increasingly embracing electric vehicles as a new market opportunity exposed by worsening climate and biodiversity crises.

Mar 28, 2024 | news.mongabay.com | Ian Morse

A new scorecard by a coalition of labor and environmental civil society organizations ranked the top 18 automakers against 80 measures of what a clean car supply chain would look like. While car companies are increasingly embracing electric vehicles, a lack of tailpipe emissions is not enough for a car to be considered truly ‘clean,’ the authors say.

Mar 28, 2024 | greenrocks.substack.com | Ian Morse

Climate technologies require enormous amounts of metal. I’m Ian Morse, and this is Green Rocks, a newsletter that doesn’t want dirty mining to ruin clean energy. Eight years after Amnesty International drew global attention to the risk of child labor cobalt from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, solutions have apparently missed the mark.