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Green City Times reports on new trends in sustainability, including: renewable energy, energy efficiency, green building, and climate change mitigation policies
10 Ways to Create Green Spaces for Urban Environments
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10 Ways Cities Can Create Sustainable Green Spaces by Jane Marsh | While it takes some additional planning, the benefits of green spaces are enormous for cities. Thankfully, new agricultural techniques and restorative practices are bringing green back to the planet (thanks to sustainable agriculture and reforestation). But what about the places where green spaces are more sparse, such as city environments?
Regenerative Agriculture and Plant-Rich Diets
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Regenerative agriculture creates carbon sinks; turning farms into healthy ecosystems that sequester carbon with plentiful plant life, while also producing crops for food. Land use practices that favor organic plant growth in addition to food crops, polyculture, healthy ecosystems, soil nutrition, cover crops, carbon farming, and low tillage...
10 Countries Promoting the use of Electric Vehicles
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Global EV BOOM | Why Is There A Need For EVs Globally? In its World Energy Outlook, the International Energy Agency identifies pathways for clean energy technological...
5 Categories of Change in Climate
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Climate change is adversely affecting all parts of the earth. There have been dramatic increases in greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) globally since the industrial revolution of the 19th century. The planet warms faster as more GHGs are added to the earth's atmosphere. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, expressing the global scientific consensus, warns that global net human-caused emissions of CO2 need to fall by about 45% from 2010 levels by 2030, reaching 'net zero' around 2050...
How Safe & Clean is Nuclear Energy?
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CLEAN Energy: NUCLEAR When looking at climate solutions for clean energy generation, it is prudent to look at all clean energy sources. Nuclear power has...
Future Generations of Batteries
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What are future generations of batteries going to be? Next generation li-ion batteries Next-gen lithium-ion (li-ion) batteries can charge quickly, are rechargeable, have a higher capacity,...
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Significant amounts of food waste originates from cities. Urbanites can use food waste reduction methods and technologies to maximize food supply, and reduce ecological degradation stemming from waste. City dwellers actually have abundant resources and solutions available to them to save food for future household consumption, gather food for charity, and compost food scraps...
Modern Sustainable Waste Management Technologies
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5 Ways for Smart Cities to Implement Sustainable Waste Management | Article by Jane Marsh | Cities worldwide are implementing zero-waste strategies. Countless places worldwide are using advances in technology to help keep their cities clean. As cities test new waste management ideas, they learn what does and does not work...
10+ IoT and Sustainability Technologies for Smart Cities
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IoT Technologies Benefit Sustainable Cities | by Jane Marsh | As the conversation around greenhouse gas emissions and climate change intensifies, cities are implementing green initiatives to make life easier and healthier for the planet and people...
Offshore Wind Farms in the United States | Block Island Leads the Way
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Block Island Wind | US Offshore Wind First of many US offshore wind farms The 1st operational offshore wind farm in the U.S....