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May 22, 2022
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May 21, 2022
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May 20, 2022
The Verge
The Department of Energy to dole out $3.5 billion for carbon removal hubs
Deploying the new climate tech will be a huge undertaking
Inside Climate News
New York Is Facing a Pandemic-Fueled Home Energy Crisis, With No End in Sight
More than a million households are 60 days in arrears on their energy bills, with an average of $1,427.71 in debt, and shut-offs are increasing.
The Grist
How ‘USA-first’ failed the solar industry
Solar tariffs were supposed to save the U.S. solar industry. They slowed it down instead.
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May 19, 2022
The New York Times
Europe Rethinks Its Reliance on Burning Wood for Electricity
A new proposal would significantly rewrite E.U. rules on renewable energy, ending subsidies for biomass like wood pellets.
Inside Climate News
Inside Clean Energy: Flow Batteries Could Be a Big Part of Our Energy Storage Future. So What’s a Flow Battery?
A battery project uses a technology that could be vital for meeting the need for long-duration energy storage.
Yale Environment 360
How Ailing Strip Malls Could Be a Green Fix for U.S. Housing Crisis
Urban designer Peter Calthorpe has a plan for the shuttered and financially troubled strip malls that dot the suburban landscape: Convert the malls into housing that would be part of green communities where people could be closer to their jobs and get out of their cars.
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May 18, 2022
Inside Climate News
Study Identifies Outdoor Air Pollution as the ‘Largest Existential Threat to Human and Planetary Health’
Deaths from exposure to emissions from vehicles, smoke stacks and wildfires have increased by more than 50 percent this century, with poorer countries bearing the brunt of the impacts.
https://grist.org/energy/what-if-apartment-listings-had-to-include-energy-efficiency-scores/
What if apartment listings had to include energy-efficiency scores?
How energy disclosure could help lower renters’ utility bills and tackle climate change.
The New York Times
Do Airline Climate Offsets Really Work? Here’s the Good News, and the Bad.
Carbon credits could eventually play an important role in fighting climate change, but right now a few dollars’ worth won’t change much.
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May 17, 2022
The Guardian
Climate geoengineering must be regulated, says former WTO head
Pascal Lamy to lead commission exploring how methods to tackle global heating could be governed
The New York Times
Michael Bloomberg Plans a $242 Million Investment in Clean Energy
The billionaire and former mayor of New York City will fund programs in 10 developing countries.
The Grist
Why Boulder and Flagstaff are enlisting cities to suck carbon out of the atmosphere
Move over, Big Tech: These cities are building a local coalition for carbon removal.
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May 16, 2022
NPR
Is your house at risk of a wildfire? This online tool could tell you
For more than 50 years, anyone buying or renting a house could look up how vulnerable it is to flooding. But for wildfire risk, homeowners were mostly in the dark.
The Grist
North Carolina house that collapsed into the sea is a warning for millions of Americans
States and the federal government can do more to protect homebuyers, like reforming flood disclosure laws.
The New York Times
The Unlikely Ascent of New York’s Compost Champion
An ad led to Domingo Morales falling in love with compost. A windfall is helping him spread the word.
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May 15, 2022
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May 14, 2022
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May 13, 2022
The New York Times
Redefining ‘Sustainable Fashion’
At its heart, the term, which can leave us feeling as if we’re chasing an impossible ideal, is a contradiction.
NPR
California just ran on 100% renewable energy, but fossil fuels aren’t fading away yet
On a mild Sunday afternoon, California set a historic milestone in the quest for clean energy. The sun was shining, the wind was blowing and on May 8th, the state produced enough renewable electricity to meet 103% of consumer demand. That broke a record set a week earlier of 99.9%.
The Guardian
Joy for environmentalists as California blocks bid for $1.4bn desalination plant
Poseidon Water sought to turn seawater into drinking water but activists said plan would devastate ecosystem on Pacific coast
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May 12, 2022
The Grist
California regulators reject governor’s pitch for carbon neutrality by 2035
A draft plan says it could be done by 2045, but only with the help of significant carbon capture projects.
The New Yorker
How Oslo Learned to Fight Climate Change
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/how-oslo-learned-to-fight-climate-change
Inside Climate News
Inside Clean Energy: In a World Starved for Lithium, Researchers Develop a Method to Get It from Water
National lab uses magnets to extract lithium, potentially helping with shortage of key battery material.
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May 11, 2022
The New Yorker
The Biggest Potential Water Disaster in the United States
In California, millions of residents and thousands of farmers depend on the Bay-Delta for fresh water—but they can’t agree on how to protect it.
The Guardian
Revealed: the ‘carbon bombs’ set to trigger catastrophic climate breakdown
Oil and gas majors are planning scores of vast projects that threaten to shatter the 1.5C climate goal. If governments do not act, these firms will continue to cash in as the world burns
Greenbiz
The challenges of scaling climate tech
In 2021, climate tech startups raised an unprecedented $39.2 billion from 1,400 investment firms. The earliest-stage rounds — Seed and Series A investments — accounted for 60 percent of the deals, indicating a wave of new decarbonization-focused startups
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May 10, 2022
NPR
The Work-From-Home climate challenge
The pandemic working-from-home regime imposed on many white-collar workers might have seemed like a gift for the climate. Fewer commutes, fewer cars on the road, fewer lights on in offices, as well as less heating and AC. It seemed like a big win.
Inside Climate News
Earth Has a 50-50 Chance of Hitting a Grim Global Warming Milestone in the Next Five Years
The World Meteorological Organization projects global temperatures will briefly break the 1.5 degrees Celsius warming mark soon, but that won’t mean it’s broken the Paris Agreement limit.
The New York Times
Oil Giants Sell Dirty Wells to Buyers With Looser Climate Goals, Study Finds
The transactions can help major oil and gas companies clean up their own production by transferring polluting assets to a different firm, the analysis said.
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May 9, 2022
Inside Climate News
To Equitably Confront Climate Change, Cities Need to Include Public Health Agencies in Planning Adaptations
Studies show health agencies often are sidelined from cities’ climate plans, despite being critical to making them fair. Barcelona shows how including them can make a difference.
The New York Times
A Fight Over America’s Energy Future Erupts on the Canadian Border
Power companies, conservationists, local residents and two U.S. states are mired in an acrimonious dispute about hydroelectricity from Quebec.
The Grist
Heat pumps do work in the cold — Americans just don’t know it yet
These heating/cooling systems have been called the “most overlooked climate solution.” Now they can work in temperatures far below freezing.
Metropolis
Future100: Student Designers Explore Radical Sustainability
In an era of ecological collapse, design students move beyond easy notions of “green building.”
From Our Partners
Mohawk Group bolsters Beyond Carbon-Neutral portfolio with EPDs & EcoFlex ONE Launch
Getting these product-specific EPDs help our customers reach their sustainability imperatives for the built environment” says Jackie Dettmar, VP of Marketing, Design and Product Development.
Metropolis
In the Toronto Suburbs, Affordable Senior Housing is Overhauled to Meet the Highest Efficiency Standards
Through a combination of advocacy and design, ERA Architects is helping build a movement to rehabilitate and green the city’s affordable housing stock.