Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Crossing the so-called Northern Sea Route in the Arctic waters, in just under three weeks it moored at the Chinese port of Yangkou, unloading its shipment of liquefied natural gas. The Arctic is rich in natural resources like fossil fuel and already under significant climate stress, warming more than twice as fast as the rest of the planet.

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Grist

AUGUST 5, 2022

He makes sure the telescope’s iconic white dome stays on track, checks that there are no stray lights in the dome that could mar data collection, and finally, watches for clouds. The beginning of the night at the McDonald Observatory can be frantic. Smith Telescope. “It’s a marathon, not a sprint,” said Young.

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Planet Pulse

JUNE 30, 2020

I distinctly remember seeing the Pillars of Creation make their debut on the cover of Sky and Telescope magazine and being unable to tear my attention away from every swirl and color contained in their majesty. . Keep checking our blog for upcoming features on some of the most remarkable people in aerospace today.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 18, 2022

“Go for gas with all the vigour of a national war effort…” That was the take from Steve Baker on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Baker, the leading light of the backbench Net Zero Scrutiny Group (NZSG), has seized on the war to push for the UK’s ban on fracking to be scrapped. Ukraine is just their latest tactic.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

These are some of the scenes from Elizabeth Kolbert’s new book, Under a White Sky , a global exploration of the ways that humanity is attempting to engineer, fix, or reroute the course of nature in a climate-changed world. Under a White Sky covers slightly different ground.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The sky, bright blue and dotted with clouds, meets the glassy water in a blur of blue that melts away any sign of the horizon. In the mangroves, anemones and jellyfish, stressed by unprecedented water temperatures, appear ghostly white. Summer afternoons on Florida Bay are a wonder. It’s a complete ecosystem problem.”

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Grist

APRIL 14, 2021

When the sky’s grown dark we stop hiking and set up camp behind the dunes. This correspondence between our world and the Dreaming extends all the way up to the sky, where Daniel points out a dark patch between Scorpio and the Southern Cross, a kind of anti-constellation. There is only the beach, deep red and wide as a highway.

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2023

Just when we needed a solar rooftop revolution, an unblocking and upscaling of renewables, a major street-by-street mass insulation programme, and a commitment to invest in our totally neglected, sewage-filled rivers and seas, we get too slow, too expensive and too dangerous nuclear white elephants. "A

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Grist

AUGUST 9, 2022

Minerals deposited by the receding waters had turned the reservoir’s lower banks white, like the rings on a bathtub. On an afternoon in late June, the San Luis Reservoir — a 9-mile lake about an hour southeast of San Jose, California — shimmered in 102-degree heat. On a distant ridge, wind turbines turned languidly. FREDERIC J.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Backwards Sky Ranch House by Clayton Korte is embedded into a beautiful landscape, extending from the Dry Frio River in Hill Country, Central Texas , down south to a vast meadow. For the interior, cedar paneling contrasts with the light limestone fireplace and White Oak flooring. Clayton Korte Renderings by Clayton Korte.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 30, 2023

One by one, mussels fall down from the sky. Under a regional environmental treaty, the Netherlands has committed to removing their 150 gas and oil platforms from the Dutch part of the North Sea. Now you know why you should keep your helmet on”, says Mark Mieras with a smile. “Now billion euros.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The series is supported by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University, and is part of their POWER project. In 2013, when Enviva Biomass opened a new plant near Belinda Joyner’s community in Northampton County, North Carolina, she already knew what to expect.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Economists, environmentalists and policymakers — many of them white — tout cap and trade as a cost-effective way to cut emissions while generating money for other climate initiatives. every first Wednesday. Nor is the fact that Khamphanthong and most of his childhood friends carried inhalers. To many, cap and trade highlights a contradiction.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 31, 2021

Norco’s flares light up the sky a day after Hurricane Ida hit. I’ve spent time in Norco before, photographing the town’s Christmas parades in the shadow of the industrial complex and under plumes from the plant’s stacks. The plumes I captured before are white and gray in color, very different from the black smoke visible after Ida.

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AutoGrid

MAY 16, 2023

One could consider both microgrids and VPPs as falling under the broader umbrella of DERMS.). Under so-called “blue sky” conditions, microgrids can operate in parallel with the larger grid network and can serve a range of purposes, such as shrinking energy costs and reducing carbon emissions. What is a MicroGrid?

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Grist

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

She learned how close she had come to catastrophe at the local clinic the next day. She had eaten a single clam containing a naturally occurring poison a thousand times more toxic than sarin gas. You could die from one clam,” Clough recalls her doctor telling her. When the tide is out, the dinner table is set,” Alutiiq elders say.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Green business groups and campaigners welcome higher 2030 emissions reduction goal, but call for ambitious policy and funding to put the UK on a net zero pathway as soon as possible.

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Earth Gratitude

JANUARY 21, 2016

achieving energy reduction goals in record time under Secretary Mabus’ aegis. On January 20, 2016, a sunny San Diego day with calm ocean waters and blue skies, the U.S. Navy made history with the launch of the Great Green Fleet ?—?a Honestly, I expected more of a hoopla and a media frenzy. the USS Stockdale and the USS John C. themselves.

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GreenBiz

MAY 28, 2020

In late March, during the early hours of the COVID-19 crisis, just as New Yorkers were realizing how many might die, a small solar development company closed a $4 million financing deal. It seems even more important now, given the terrible toll COVID-19 is having right where the solar is planned: the Navajo Nation. Clean energy can be our bridge.".

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Under the U.S. The role the advertising and public relations industry plays in helping to shield oil and gas industry players from pressure while they continue to invest in new production has come under growing scrutiny in recent years. Hundreds of pages of documents filed with the U.S. must regularly file these forms with the DOJ.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 14, 2022

After the flames, nipping at the night sky like lashes from a heavenly monster, came the odor, a gnarled concoction of steamed laundry and burned tires. The flares started last December, an event Errol Summerlin, a former legal-aid lawyer, and his neighbors had been bracing for since 2017.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

For nearly 20 years, Texas environmental regulators have kept a disturbing secret. People living in a small, unincorporated community east of Houston are routinely breathing dangerous levels of benzene, a chemical linked to leukemia and other blood cancers. Emerging research also connects it to diabetes and reproductive problems.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The White House has since condemned the comments. . Pipeline opponents are saying that they’ve been thrown under the gas-guzzling bus by a side deal made with Sen. Tuesday morning in Washington, D.C., But that’s not an argument, that’s just power.”. on September 27. Credit: Zach Roberts. I’m not a scientist.”

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2020

But when the wind howls and the sky turns dark there is little chance of identifying them if we sit passively and hope for the best. The coronavirus pandemic will change the world, but it is impossible to know how - the green economy must now strive to shape the new normal. We know this to be true. Every cloud has a silver lining'.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Outgoing Prime Minister warns arguments fracking could prove a ‘panacea’ to the energy crisis are ‘slightly dubious’, as he criticises those ‘who think hydrocarbons are the only answer’. The deal will effectively see the government take a stake in the project in a move that it is hoped will help developer EDF attract further investors.

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Grist

JANUARY 23, 2020

This story was published in partnership with the Center for Public Integrity and The World. It was sunny and 82 degrees, a perfect August day for a trip to the public beach just outside Toledo. But hardly anyone was here. And no one was swimming. DANGER,” warned a red sign posted in the sand near the edge of Lake Erie. More in this series.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 28, 2020

How the Navajo got their day in the sun Danny Kennedy Thu, 05/28/2020 – 02:00 In late March, during the early hours of the COVID-19 crisis, just as New Yorkers were realizing how many might die, a small solar development company closed a $4 million financing deal. Clean energy can be our bridge.” s largest solar loan business, Mosaic.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 28, 2020

How the Navajo got their day in the sun Danny Kennedy Thu, 05/28/2020 – 02:00 In late March, during the early hours of the COVID-19 crisis, just as New Yorkers were realizing how many might die, a small solar development company closed a $4 million financing deal. Clean energy can be our bridge.” s largest solar loan business, Mosaic.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Natural gas’s notorious price volatility has been making a comeback — in a big way. The UK is experiencing a natural gas price surge so severe that the government stepped in to prevent a cascade down the supply chain that threatened to create food shortages. In the U.S., In the U.S., South and caused widespread power outages.

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Grist

APRIL 24, 2020

Under the right atmospheric and oceanic conditions, a trail of water vapor gets yanked up into the sky from the swath of the Pacific Ocean lying in the tropics by a cyclone. He claimed those puffs could squeeze rain from the stingy clouds above and fill the reservoir anew. Hatfield set his device in motion at the end of December 1915.

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2021

Even so, the UK remains under significant pressure to orchestrate the diplomatic breakthroughs required to finalise the rulebook for the Paris Agreement and unlock a new wave of ambitious climate action, and Sharma's tone at the virtual IEA-COP26 meeting yesterday appeared to strike an increase in urgency towards the task at hand.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Under the order, the federal government would also have to reduce its operating emissions by 65 per cent by 2030. The moves come as the administration continues to negotiate with a handful of hold-out Democrat Senators over passage of major new infrastructure bills, which are widely regarded as critical to the White House's net zero strategy.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2020

A year of tragedy and chaos has also seen a dramatic leap forward for the global green economy. There is an alternative history to 2020. It was the year the world's largest polluter pledged to fully decarbonise its economy within 40 years. The year the world's largest market announced plans for the largest green stimulus package in history.

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2020

Ed King reflects on how the world of high level sport offers some sage advice on how to drive climate action in the face of authoritarian and reactionary opponents. You find out life's this game of inches. So is football. One-half second too slow, too fast, you don't quite catch it.". Geopolitics hasn't looked the same since. One game at a time.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Many wore white headphones to hear the Spanish translator standing nearby. In June, Public Health Watch, the Investigative Reporting Workshop and Grist published a year-long investigation about pollution, power, and politics in the Texas petrochemical industry. This story shows what has happened in the six months since. We deserve to know.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Climate change is here,” said Arati Prabhakar, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Biden administration during a briefing on the report. closer to meeting its emissions targets under the global climate treaty known as the Paris Agreement. All of the many extreme weather events that hit the U.S.,

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Those included Ernest Moniz, a physicist and former Energy Secretary under President Barack Obama; Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, a professor at Georgia Institute of Technology and former deputy energy secretary; and Arun Majumdar, former acting undersecretary of energy and first chief of DOE’s blue-sky research program ARPA-E.

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