In case you were wondering how we were planning on averting total ecological disaster and environmental collapse, TreeHugger has the answer. 5 answers in fact. And although a couple of them are variations on familiar technologies, for the most part it’s all news to us.

Like dispatchable wind power, which sounds vaguely threatening, but basically amounts to collective storage of energy generated by wind turbines. Or confusing biochar, which has something to do with burning agricultural waste in oxygen-free spaces and using the resulting tar-like substance as fertilizer, a plastics component and several other things. Then there’s the wild concept behind algae biofuels (seen at right), which we’ll let you read for yourselves with TreeHugger’s 5 Technologies That Will Save Us From Climate Change.