# **Power to the People: Why Energy Company Obligations Are Lighting Up the Internet** In a world where memes spread faster than wildfires and trends change quicker than TikTok dances, there’s one topic that’s been quietly gaining traction across the globe: **Energy Company Obligations (ECOs)**. No, it’s not the latest Netflix binge-worthy drama or a…
THE GREAT GRANNY-FREEZE PARADOX: How a £300 British Winter Fuel Payment Became the Canary in the Planet’s Overstuffed Coal Mine Dateline: Somewhere between the Arctic jet stream and the central bank’s printer queue By the time you finish this sentence, another British pensioner will have asked Alexa whether “heat or eat” is the more fashionable…
Green Day, 2024 Edition: When the Planet Takes Its Annual Sick Day By the time the clock struck 8:30 p.m. Saturday in Samoa—conveniently the first place on Earth to tick forward—lights blinked off across an archipelago that already smells of diesel and coconut-scented FOMO. Thus began the planet’s 18th consecutive “Earth Hour,” the feel-good blackout…
Global Thermostats and Frozen Pockets: The Winter Fuel Payment as a Geopolitical Mood Ring By Your Correspondent, Still Wearing Three Scarves LONDON—While the British government’s annual Winter Fuel Payment (£200–£300 sent to pensioners like an edible bouquet of lukewarm hope) is technically a domestic affair, its reverberations are felt from the slushy streets of Seoul…
CenterPoint Energy: Houston, We Have a Grid Problem (and It’s Contagious) By the time the lights flickered out in Texas last February, the rest of the planet had already stopped pretending to be surprised. After all, we’ve spent the last decade watching power grids from South Africa to Siberia audition for the same tragicomedy: one…
