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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South

GreenBiz

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. And then once [Enviva] start building it, then they were saying ‘oh this is coming,’ and I told them ‘this is what I tried to tell you all about.’” .

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Is craft production sustainable?

Low Impact

This is the second article of three with weaver Eloise Sentito. Can you just talk us through it – we use so many woven products, so many textiles. By my own standards, we can’t be sustainable while using the mainstream monetary system. So yes, but what do you mean weaving at the community level?

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Slow, [Expensive] and Amazing - Nuclear Power [2/3]

Mr. Sustainability

Nuclear power is up to three times more expensive than wind or solar Summary - Costs of renewables continue to fall incrementally and are at a record low of around €40 per MWh. Make up your own mind with our nuclear cost comparison tool and see how many solar panels you can buy at the same price of a conventional nuclear power plant.

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Naresh Giangrande, co-founder of Transition Network: the future for local economies, Part 2

Low Impact

Probably the best thing is to go the regional hubs, and see what they think might be the best way. But again, it’s one of those questions that we’ve often been asked – ‘we’ve got this great idea – can you put us in touch with all the Transition groups in the UK?’ what could be done about that? Let’s take class first.

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Changing Tack

Unsustainable

The latest JF hatefest happened in the wake of his essay in the New Yorker which suggested that after 30 years of failing to stop gushing greenhouse gases despite knowing the dangers of doing so, we should stop telling ourselves the fairytale that we’re going to stop before it’s too late. billion people in the mid-1980s to about 7.5

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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South

AGreenLiving

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. The county is also majority Black (57 percent), with 21 percent of residents living in poverty compared to 14 percent statewide, according to the most recent data from the U.S.

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AMPLY Power offers EV fleets guaranteed uptime and zero charging challenges

Charged

During previous tech revolutions, third-party contractors emerged to provide turnkey services to companies for things like data centers and solar installations. You would have a solar developer figure out all that for you and install it, and for large enough deployments, you would do a 20-year solar PPA.