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Enbridge Renewable Natural Gas A 1% Greenwashing Rounding Error

November 5, 2024 admin Agriculture, air quality, biofuel, biofuels, biomass, Canada, carbon emissions, clean power, clean transport, climate change, electric trucks, Electric vehicles, Energy, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, heat pumps, hydrogen, hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, investment, Manufacturing, mass transit, mass transit / public transit, natural gas, Oil, policy & politics, renewable energy, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2024 18:50:43 +0000

One of the amusing side notes of my recent foray into the challenges that the Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium (CUTRIC) is having was the tone deaf and counterproductive social media responses of their board member from Enbridge, the biggest natural gas firm in North America. When that … [continued]

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Applications Now Open Nationwide For Community-Led Heat-Monitoring Campaigns

November 5, 2024 admin climate change, NOAA, president biden

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2024 03:44:52 +0000

As part of President Biden’s Investing in America initiative, the Center for Collaborative Heat Monitoring launched applications on November 1, 2024, enabling communities around the United States to monitor and evaluate variables influencing local heat risk. The Inflation Reduction Act will provide $10,000 and technical assistance to selected communities to … [continued]

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Election Misinformation: How Trump & Musk Spit Out Fallacies That Undermine Democracy

November 5, 2024 admin carbon emissions, clean transport, climate change, elon musk, policy & politics

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2024 00:50:35 +0000

Fallacies have been rampant throughout the Trump for President campaign. Standing alongside the guy who perfected the Art of the Steal Deal is Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, who has committed more than $70 million to boost Trump in the election. The New York Times reports that … [continued]

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Why Has The Term “Nature-Based” Been Crucial To Dialogue At COP16 Convention On Biological Diversity?

November 4, 2024 admin air quality, Biodiversity, carbon emissions, climate change, ecosystems, investment, Massachusetts, nature, policy & politics, the nature conservancy

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 19:53:35 +0000

The 16th Conference of the Parties (COP16) to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity is now well underway in Cali, Colombia, bringing together nearly 190 nations. They’re gathered to find answers to the critical challenge of halting ever-increasing biodiversity loss, investigating its relationship with the climate crisis, and enhancing the … [continued]

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Is There A Link Between Climate Change & More Costly Disasters? It’s Complicated

November 3, 2024 admin climate change, climate disasters, disasters, NOAA, policy & politics, research

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 17:26:50 +0000

Climate change is a factor in the increase in losses from fires, storms, and flooding, but it is not the only factor, some scientists argue.

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China Will Electrify & Decarbonize Much Faster Than Europe Unless EU Puts Act In Action

November 3, 2024 admin carbon emissions, China, clean power, climate change, Energy, Europe, events, green economy, green jobs, hydroelectric, India, investment, Manufacturing, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 16:15:47 +0000

This week I had the privilege of speaking in Brussels, steps from the European Parliament, among a group of speakers that included the Belgian energy minister and a member of European parliament, then participating in a panel discussion. The event was a launch of the second edition of Supergrid Super … [continued]

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Brussels Conversations: Port Decarbonization, Economics Of Climate Refugees, Logistics Strategy & More

November 3, 2024 admin carbon emissions, clean transport, climate change, climate economics, climate refugees, economics, electric truck, Electric vehicles, Europe, ev charging, freight, green economy, green jobs, HEALTH, INTERVIEWS, investment, Logistics, Manufacturing, microgrids, Shipping

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 15:50:49 +0000

When people found out I was going to be in Brussels, invitations for lunch and dinner came out of the woodwork, and people started booking train rides, including two from London. Lengthy conversations on different decarbonization challenges ensued, around the main event itself, the book launch of the second edition … [continued]

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France Built Superman’s Polar Fortress To Study Climate Change

November 2, 2024 admin Arctic, climate change, France, research, SCIENCE

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 15:03:50 +0000

In the original Superman film (1978), an alien raised by humans finds out that he’s got a space family that he knows little about. After the death of his father, he takes a strange crystal (which had been calling out to him) from his foster family’s farm and makes a … [continued]

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Rewilding Must Help Damaged Forests To Work Symbiotically With Nature

November 1, 2024 admin Agriculture, carbon emissions, climate change, green economy, reforestation

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 15:29:12 +0000

Did you know that reestablished forests — revitalized through planting and seeding — rarely manage to fully replicate the rich ecosystems of natural forests? Forests support all kinds of life, such as insects, flora, fauna, humans, and microbes. Compromised woodlands have an innate capacity to regrow and flourish — if … [continued]

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Hurricane Damage In The Blue Ridge Mountains Shows Us Why We Fight

November 1, 2024 admin Appalachia, climate change, hurricanes

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 12:14:33 +0000

When it comes to sheer altitude, the western mountains of the United States are hard to beat. In North America, they’re the tallest, and even in the Americas, the larger American Cordillera that runs from Alaska to Antarctica has the tallest mountains on both continents. Depending on how you measure … [continued]

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