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A Carbon-Free City is Being Built From Scratch
Read the entire article at Scientific American. Can a city built from scratch be profitable to developers and enjoyable to residents as it tries to be carbon-free? That is the question facing owners and planners of a mostly vacant, sunburned 400-acre plot of land near this city’s sprawling International Airport as they plan an energy system […]
Automated Buses Will Reshape Our Cities
Read the entire article at Fast Company. When a short trial of an autonomous bus first ran in Helsinki, Finland, in 2016, most riders saw it as a novelty. But by this fall, if you work in downtown Helsinki, you might start riding the city’s robo-bus as part of your daily commute. The city is […]
Warming Temperatures Releasing Methane from Melting Permafrost
Read the entire article at Futurism. A new study indicates that warming temperatures caused by climate change may be releasing heat-trapping methane from layers of gas and oil that’s been lurking beneath the Arctic permafrost for thousands of years. Until now, anyway. As the permafrost melts, millions of tiny openings are created, and some of […]
Five Ways the US Withdrawal from Paris Reignited Climate Action
Read the entire article at GreenBiz. The United States withdrawal from the historic Paris Climate Agreement was met with widespread dismay. However, the reactions from many political leaders, multinational businesses and the general public have been one of emboldened support for climate action. One of the most striking reactions has been the forging of new alliances […]
Carbon Farming Draws Down CO2
Read the entire article at GreenBiz. Carbon farming is the umbrella term used for a growing suite of agricultural and land management practices that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and stores it in soils and plants. Hawaii’s lawmakers recognize both the grave threat of climate change and the economic opportunity to generate local […]
How-To ‘Climate Smart’ Brownfield Manual
Read the entire article at Brownfield Listings. The new Climate Smart Brownfield Manual from U.S. EPA addresses how communities can incorporate climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies into their brownfield revitalization projects. It also explains in plain detail why mitigation and adaptation matter so much to communities beset by brownfields. While perceptions of brownfields, […]
McKinsey: Cheaper Batteries Pose Imminent Threat to Utilities
Read the entire article at UtilityDive. Continued energy storage cost declines present a growing threat of disruption for utility business models, a new study from McKinsey & Co. finds. Continued cost declines are moving energy storage from niche applications, such as grid balancing, to broader uses such as replacing conventional power generators for reliability, providing power-quality […]
Fires Rise in Arctic as Lightening Follows the Warming
Read the entire article at E&E News. Climate change is driving up the number of forest fires ignited by lightning, and it’s pushing them farther north, to the edges of the Arctic tundra, researchers say. Lightning-caused fires have risen 2 to 5 percent a year for the last four decades, according to a […]
Extreme Heat Waves are Changing How We Live
Read the entire article at Time Science. Heat waves are nothing new, but they have increased in frequency and severity in recent decades as a result of climate change. And each extreme heat event reveals another way our society simply isn’t built for such high temperatures, from our transport systems to the agriculture industry. […]
China Breaks Ground on First “Forest City”
Read the full article at Inhabitat. A pollution-fighting green city unlike any before is springing to life in China. Designed by Stefano Boeri Architetti, the first “Forest City” is now under construction Liuzhou, Guangxi Province. The futuristic city will use renewable energy for self sufficiency and be blanketed in almost 1 million plants and 40,000 […]
