by CommunicationsTeam | Mar 28, 2021 | Climate Solutions, News, Technology & Science
By Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone, March 25, 2021 Climate change can make us feel hopeless. From superstorms and megafires to melting ice caps and rising seas, the ravages of global warming are only getting worse. If human activity is driving us to the brink, the good...
by CommunicationsTeam | Mar 25, 2021 | Climate Solutions, Technology & Science
The climate crisis is a problem affecting people of all ages — and it needs an intergenerational, collaborative movement to fight it. 82-year-old retired Chicago land engineer Jim Goodman and his wife Annie are alarmed about the ever more severe climate change crisis,...
by CommunicationsTeam | Feb 8, 2021 | Climate Solutions, Energy & Built Environment, Public Policy & Legislation, Uncharacterized
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has announced that it will restart permitting for Vineyard Wind, set to become the first major U.S. offshore wind farm, reversing a Trump administration decision that canceled the permitting process late last year. Read about...
by Janet Williams | Feb 8, 2021 | Climate Reports, Climate Solutions, News, Uncharacterized
Most of the technology required to fully decarbonize the US economy already exists, and those technologies are now more cost-effective than technologies relying on fossil fuels, according to a report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and...
by ccccc | Dec 31, 2020 | Climate Solutions, News, Public Policy & Legislation
The Biden administration — with its commitment to make fighting climate change a core goal across the federal government with the aim of achieving carbon free energy generation by 2035— has a wide array of actions it can take to move the U.S. far closer to...
by ccccc | Dec 25, 2020 | Climate Solutions, News, Public Policy & Legislation
The Baker administration has published its Decarbonization Roadmap” : Reducing emissions to achieve Net Zero by 2050 is the Commonwealth’s primary and most important line of defense in preventing the significant threats presented by a changing climate. To...
by ccccc | Dec 23, 2020 | Energy & Built Environment, News
From our friends at Yale e360 come these incredible, jaw dropping series of aerial photographs depicting the energy transformations occurring around the world. From Morocco’s “I-could-swear-it’s-an-art-installation” massive solar station to...
by ccccc | Dec 23, 2020 | Energy & Built Environment, News
Solar and onshore wind power are now the cheapest new sources of electricity in at least two-thirds of the world’s population, further threatening the two fossil-fuel stalwarts — coal and natural gas. The levelized cost of electricity for onshore wind projects...
by ccccc | Dec 16, 2020 | Climate Reports, Climate Solutions, News
Princeton University has released an important new study demonstrating different scenarios for how the country could slash its greenhouse gas emissions and reach net zero by 2050. The study’s findings are at once optimistic and sobering. Reaching net zero by 2050...
by CommunicationsTeam | Dec 13, 2020 | News, Uncharacterized
“What lies before us is the opportunity to build a more just and equitable way of life for all humankind. This potential new beginning comes at a rare moment when it may be possible to break the stranglehold of the past over the future, when the trajectory of...
by ccccc | Nov 28, 2020 | News
The Climate 21 Project taps the expertise of more than 150 experts with high-level government experience, including nine former cabinet appointees, to deliver actionable advice for a rapid-start, whole-of-government climate response coordinated by the White House and...
by CommunicationsTeam | Nov 23, 2020 | News, Uncharacterized
As he prepares to take office in January as President Biden’s Climate Czar (technically, his “presidential envoy for climate”), John Kerry is focusing on the importance of putting a realistic, effective price on carbon – at least $100/ton....
by ccccc | Nov 23, 2020 | Climate Reports, News, Uncharacterized
The International Energy Agency has reported that renewable energy sources are likely to account to nearly 90% of the increase in total power capacity worldwide in 2020. And that growth rate will keep accelerating throughout 2021. Driven by China and the United...
by CommunicationsTeam | Nov 9, 2020 | Climate Solutions, Education, News
The successful and popular Net Zero 2020 Conference held on October 23 still has people in the Cape & Islands region – and beyond – talking. The ideas presented for working to solve the climate crisis while simultaneously rebuilding a sustainable...
by CommunicationsTeam | Nov 5, 2020 | Climate Solutions, News
Project Drawdown, the leading resource for climate solutions, has created a new research arm. Drawdown Labs will be a testing ground for how the private sector can go beyond ‘net zero’ to help the world achieve Drawdown quickly, safely and equitably. Led by a...
