Strategies for mitigating climate change | What are the ♥best♥ strategies for mitigating global warming? How is the United States going to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions? Carbon pricing? The Green New Deal? Here's a brief list of sustainability priorities that the United States...
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The Shining Future of the GREEN Economy ♥♥ Employment in clean and renewable energy features, most substantially, jobs in energy efficiency; including jobs in EnergyStar, in producing LED and CFL lighting, and manufacturing electric vehicles (EVs). Jobs in smart grid, maintaining smart meters, and in...
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Latest trends in global wind turbine technology Onshore Wind Farms - Cheap and Clean Energy | Wind farms now provide the least expensive form of energy, renewable or non-renewable; once the wind farm is fully constructed and operational. Among energy sources used to power a...
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International Shortfall in NDCs | There is a substantial shortfall between GHG emission reduction pledges that almost 200 countries, both independently, and internationally all member-nations of the UNFCCC* have recommended targets. (The international pledges are known as nationally determined contributions (NDCs) - and can be...
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Solar - the most abundant renewable energy on the planet | Recently there have been dramatic breakthroughs in solar energy that will help advance the mainstream use of photovoltaic (PV) technology, as well as solar thermal technologies (CSP towers, solar parabolics, solar water heaters). Breakthroughs...
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[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="501"] smart meters[/caption] Many buildings in America today still rely on inefficient energy infrastructure, such as older models of energy meters, instead of modern, cost-effective, energy efficiency technology such as smart meters.[1] Smart meters are energy meters with digital, high-speed real-time two-way...
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Carlsbad, California desalination plant | The Sorek desalination plant in Tel Aviv, Israel | The two desalination plants featured in this article; one in Carlsbad (north coastal San Diego county), California, and one in Tel Aviv, Israel, represent two of the pioneering large-scale desalination plants...
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In its World Energy Outlook, the International Energy Agency identifies pathways for clean energy technological solutions needed to reach global carbon neutrality (i.e. net zero GHG emissions) by 2050. It also details interim goals that will ensure the world is on the path to carbon neutrality....
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In order to stay on track to meet the goal of net zero emissions by 2050, low carbon sources need to meet the interim goal of generating 75% of global energy by 2030, according the IEA. That goal can only be reached if most of...
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Recycle to GO GREEN Effective waste management strategies for cities include efficient citywide recycling programs, as well as waste-to-energy programs (discussed below). Globally, the scientific community and most governments agree that citizens worldwide must make a vigilant, concerted effort NOW on actionable climate priorities as...
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