COMMUNITY ENERGY
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CURRENT NEWS
COVID-19 Provides Lessons on Climate Adaptation for Cities
By Amy Turner Photo: Michael Walter on Unsplash
Some policies can simultaneously address public health threats, reduce emissions and provide for a city’s recovery. …
New online tool helps Michigan communities plan for renewable energy
Currently, more than half of Michigan’s 1,800-plus municipalities have considered renewable energy in their zoning ordinances. As utility-scale renewable energy expands, remaining communities will have a rich resource to help guide their new ordinances.
Governor Cuomo Announces 30-Day Amendment to Accelerate Renewable Energy Projects and Drive Economic Growth as Part of Nation-Leading Climate Agenda
Legislation to Speed Up Progress Towards the State Mandate to Obtain 70 Percent of Electricity from Renewable Sources by 2030 and Other Nation-leading Goals of the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act
Mark Hertsgaard Assesses SF Global Climate Action Summit
By Alex Wise
This past September in San Francisco, scientists, thought leaders, politicians and celebrities all gathered for the Global Climate Action Summit. Mark Hertsgaard covered the summit for The Nation magazine and is here on Sea Change…
This Dutch City Has Transformed Its Bus Stops Into Bee Stops
By Michiel de Gooijer Photo: Brightvibes
In the Dutch city Utrecht 316 bus stops now have a green roof. They do not only look great, they also help capture fine dust, storage of rainwater and provide cooling in the summertime.
With More Storms and Rising Seas, Which U.S. Cities Should Be Saved First?
By Christopher Flavelle Photo: Brendan Smialowski/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
As disaster costs keep rising nationwide, a troubling new debate has become urgent: If there’s not enough money to protect every coastal community from the effects of human-caused global warming, how should we decide which…
Eskilstuna: how a Swedish town became the world capital of recycling
By Ammar Kalia Photo: Graeme Robertson/The Guardian
The city was dying. Then somebody had a great idea to save it – make it the greenest place on Earth
Standing Rock fights on: Tribal activism goes solar
Three years after the historic anti-pipeline protests in North Dakota, activists are bringing renewable energy to the oil-rich land.
Americans Need More Bike Transit – And these Nonprofits are Bringing it
By Avery Phillips
Alternative transportation is becoming a topic of huge importance as climate scientists tell us the Earth will not be able to withstand current levels of emissions and human impact.
These Are the Cities Doing the Most to Combat Global Warming
By Jeremy Hodges
Cities, which are home to more than half the world’s population, are stepping up efforts to slash pollution, often wresting the fight against climate change away from national governments. That’s the conclusion of CDP, a…
New York’s Aggressive Climate Law Takes Aim at Skyscrapers
By Adam Rogers Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images
On Thursday, the New York City Council voted into law a sweeping set of rules to fight climate change, a metropolis-scaled version of a Green New Deal. And if the lawmakers and policy wonks who…
How clean is your city? Just ask the bees
By Kate E. Smith Photo: Kate Smith
There’s a good chance you live in a city — or will soon. According to estimates by the United Nations, two out of every three people will live in an urban area by 2050. The…
Oslo, Norway to install wireless electric chargers for taxi fleet
By Jason Plautz courtesy Pixabay
Oslo, Norway is poised to become the first city in the world to use wireless fast-charging infrastructure for its taxi fleet, in part of an effort to deploy only electric taxis by the year 2023.
Highlighting Useful Technologies for Getting to Zero: The New Zero Energy Project Product Directory
by Bruce Sullivan
New technologies are making zero energy homes and buildings more affordable, healthier, and more comfortable than ever. The Zero Energy Project now helps you keep up with advanced building equipment and materials through our new…
Babylon Town completes LED replacement for streetlights
By Rachel O’Brien Photo: Newsday/Rachel O'Brien
The four-month switch-over to LED cost $3.2 million and is projected to save the town $1 million annually, officials said.
Residential electricity use to drop over next 5 years, PSEG Long Island says
By Mark Harrington Photo: Chris Ware
Energy-saving LED lights and green-energy alternatives, along with slower-than-expected economic growth, are leading the home-use declines, utility official says.
Every State has Home Energy Efficiency Assistance Programs. Find Yours.
By Sandra Wood
Throughout the US, homeowners are taking proactive, meaningful steps to moderate their home’s energy use and lower their carbon footprint. Since buildings alone are responsible for 40% of the energy used in the US, reducing…
7 Tips For Your Community’s Resilience – What’s Your Climate Threat?
By Joan Michelson
A community in Pittsburgh was alarmed by the high rate of asthma and related illnesses in their children and cardiovascular diseases in their adults and attributed them to pollutants from the Shenanago Coke Works facility,…
Five Big Ways the United States Will Need to Adapt to Climate Change
By Brad Plumer Photo: Bryan Tarnowski for The New York Times
The federal government’s sweeping new National Climate Assessment is more than just a dire warning about current and future global warming effects across the United States. It’s also the most detailed guide yet to all the ways…
Former Toronto Mayor David Miller Talks About City Responsibility Following U.N. Climate Report
By Jared Brey Photo: Mario Tama / Getty Images
The North American leader of C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group outlines what cities are doing well – and can do better – in the wake of the recent U.N. climate report.
Sustainability Progress Through Transformations in Public Transportation
By Alana Masciana
What’s the best way for cities to become more sustainable? For Thomas Abdallah of MTA New York City Transit, the answer is mass transit. Citing the finding that the transportation sector accounts for the largest share of U.S. greenhouse…
How China Took Charge of the Electric Bus Revolution
By Linda Poon Photo: Getty Images
In just eight years, Shenzhen became the first city to electrify 100 percent of its public buses—16,359, to be exact.
MORE NEWS
Jerry Brown: Climate change is about inventing, ‘not just adapting’
By Meet the Press 12/30/18
In an exclusive interview, California Governor Jerry Brown (D) joins Chuck to discuss the aftermath of passing the gas tax in his state and how the wildfires this year have pushed him to “wake up…
Bloomberg On 2020: Any Candidate ‘Better Have A Plan’ On Climate Change
By Meet the Press 12/27/18
In an exclusive interview, Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg tells Chuck Todd he does not yet know if he will run for president in 2020, but adds, “I will be out there demanding…
Mike Bloomberg Delivers Remarks at the Global Climate Action Summit
By Mike Bloomberg 9/13/18
Introduced by Minority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, Mike Bloomberg shares the trailer for Bloomberg Philanthropies and RadicalMedia’s new film, “Paris to Pittsburgh,” and delivers remarks Summit on the U.S. commitment…