Ithaca, NY raises $100 million to decarbonize its buildings https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/19/ithaca-new-york-raised-100m-climate-proof-buildings https://inhabitat.com/ithaca-raises-100m-to-decarbonize-buildings/ 18 … [Read more...]
Global Carbon Budget 2021
Global Carbon Budget 2021 Abstract https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2021-386/ Full preprint: https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2021-386/essd-2021-386.pdf 2020, Fossil CO2 emissions (EFOS) declined by 5.4 % … [Read more...]
Local, National, International Energy (and Other) Events Listings for January, 2022
These kinds of events are happening all over the world every day and most of them, now, are webcast and archived, sometimes even with accurate transcripts. Would be good to have a place that helped you access them. Anybody know of … [Read more...]
Electric Appliances as Virtual Power Plants
“We’re thinking we can turn water heaters, refrigerators, thermostats, electric vehicles and batteries into virtual power plants [VPPs]” to help balance the grid's increasing clean electricity, Jigar Shah, director of the DOE Loan Programs … [Read more...]
Old Solar: Equal Rights to the Sun
“Produced by Bonnie Symansky, this video, Equal Rights to the Sun (1979) documents citizen [led] solar energy projects organized in the Boston area by the Urban Solar Energy Association (USEA - founded by Barbara Brandt [Susan Baldwin, … [Read more...]
City Agriculture – November 14, 2021
Living the Noom - near net zero energy buildings with vertical forests https://www.yankodesign.com/2021/07/22/breathtaking-residential-building-in-mexico-comes-with-its-own-vertical-forest-and-solar-panels-on-its-terrace/ El Terreno - a … [Read more...]
Energy Event: MIT Materials Day Symposium: Role of Materials in Addressing Climate Change & Sustainability
These kinds of events are happening all over the world every day and most of them, now, are webcast and archived, sometimes even with accurate transcripts. Would be good to have a place that helped people access them. The local … [Read more...]
“Rejected Energy” and Heat Mapping the EU
USAmerica generates around 100 quadrillion BTUs per year, more or less, and has plateaued at that level since 2000. However, about 67% of the energy produced is characterized as “rejected energy,” energy that does no useful work, according … [Read more...]
Zero Net Energy – August 26, 2021
Zero emissions drive would grow U.S. economy - Report shows meeting Paris climate goals would add trillions of dollars in economic … [Read more...]
Carbon Coin
from Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson Page 294: They [a consortium of all the big central banks, with open access for more central banks to join] would issue together a single new currency, coordinated through the BIS … [Read more...]
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