Grist

MARCH 26, 2021

It’s possible that the dangers will reach a critical juncture where the world may want to consider another tool with the potential to save millions of lives: solar geoengineering, also described by scientists with the more careful and lengthy phrase “ climate intervention strategies that reflect sunlight to cool the earth.”.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 11, 2019

sunlight-reflecting “cool walls” could save as much or more energy than reflective cool roofs. There's no formal universal definition of what constitutes a “cool wall," said Ronnen Levinson, study co-author and staff scientist at Berkeley Lab. percent for single-family homes, and 4.6 Around half of U.S.

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Grist

MAY 4, 2021

In 2008, she was working in a fire center at the University of California, Berkeley, not long after getting her doctorate there. It’s time to change the assumption that scientists ought to be cool, calm, collected intellectuals who stoop down to talk to journalists every once in a while, Kearns argues.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 2, 2020

Futhermore, European solar markets didn’t really take off until 2008, so most of the PV equipment being used in Europe today won't enter the waste stream until around 2040, Thoring noted. “It’s pretty cool.” Collected modules awaiting recycling. Europe only has one dedicated PV recycling plant so far.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The State of California and 44 cities have set even more challenging targets to also transition their entire transportation, heating and cooling sectors to 100 percent clean energy sources. Other areas, meanwhile, have decided to go well beyond 100 percent clean electricity.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Rainforests cool the planet, provide clean air and water, and are a haven for some of the most endangered species on Earth - and so protecting them must be a core priority. But International Environment Minister Zac Goldsmith hailed the legislation as a major step forward for efforts to tackle deforestation. "In

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Founded in 2008 as California’s first not-for-profit, community choice aggregation program, MCE today serves over 1 million residents and businesses in four San Francisco Bay area counties: Contra Costa; Marin; Napa; and Solano. . “And those that need electricity for heating, cooling, and to keep food fresh.”

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 3, 2020

After the 2008 economic recession, I led a study to show that companies generally scaled down sustainability programs during periods of lowered financial performance, but they did so rather selectively. Many may find their companies’ post COVID-19 business strategies are no longer aligned with ongoing or planned sustainability programs.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 3, 2020

After the 2008 economic recession, I led a study to show that companies generally scaled down sustainability programs during periods of lowered financial performance, but they did so rather selectively. Many may find their companies’ post COVID-19 business strategies are no longer aligned with ongoing or planned sustainability programs.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 18, 2020

Keane co-founded the business with Willow O’Brien in 2008. Raw and vegan at home The Pixie Retreat kitchen is cool but daunting. Let’s take a behind-the-scenes look at a commercial raw food kitchen. The early years Pixie Retreat was built on a dream and a lot of hard work, trial and error. Make nut milk ,” Keane said.

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The Environmental Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

However, a new wave of cool young brands with a different, more philanthropic outlook are now offering an alternative. A 2017 Financial Times article ( [link] ) also cites a study from the non-profit consultancy firm Ethical Consumer, which says that the UK market for ethical products and services has grown by over £40 billion since 2008.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 17, 2023

That accolade belongs to Ecobee, a small Canadian startup that launched the Ecobee Smart in 2008 , three years before Nest came along. Google Nest brought advanced energy management to its thermostats in 2021 with its Nest Renew service that can automatically shift heating and cooling to times when energy is cheaper and / or cleaner.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2008, Jacobson teamed up with student, Graeme Hoste, to assess whether California’s hourly demand for electricity could be satisfied with a combination of renewable power sources. (Photo Courtesy Mark Jacobson). Collaboration with Students. In 2005, Jacobson worked with Stanford students to begin mapping regions of the U.S.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Spending the past year as Ecolab’s president and COO, he joined as an executive vice president in 2008 after capping off 15 years as Nestlé’s head of corporate sales in Europe. Solvay repurposes wastewater from dairy production in the United Arab Emirates to cool cows in arid fields. Company profile. UAE, Switzerland and France.

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Charged

MAY 7, 2024

When Heuer started working in the EVSE market back in 2008, he was struck by the irony that one of the most global industries—automotive—is having to learn to work with one of the most regional industries—electric utilities, which operate differently in different countries, and indeed in different US states. .”

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2022

It further noted that not only do better insulated homes help reduce the cost of energy in the winter, but that they can help to keep homes cool in the summer, thereby reducing the cost of cooling systems such as air conditioners as hotter temperatures become more common in the UK.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

The year was 2008. It is a story, he says, “ of continuous advocacy and fight by the small island states in the 2008-2015 period, against the opposition of the developed countries and the oil producers. ” Swart – mentioned at the beginning – pointed out that “temperature increases beyond 1.0°C However, the exact 1.5°C

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Another example is the Carbon Neutral Government British Columbia program (formerly Pacific Carbon Trust), which reported 2016 reduction cost performance of $25 CDN / tCO2e following a report after the program’s first seven years (2008-2014) of 4.5 million tCO2e of in-province offset programs for $53.4 million ($12 CDN/ tCO2e).

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 22, 2024

A supply-demand chain reaction for uranium prices Uranium prices went nuclear on Monday, blasting past $100/lb for the first time since 2008. Post-Fukushima, governments cooled on nuclear energy, but recent shifts recognizing nuclear's role in achieving net zero goals have led to demand outpacing supply.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Some have actually called the Arctic the world’s “air-conditioning system” because of the role of the large ice sheets in cooling the surrounding continents. Regional cooling due to jetstream disruption. In 2008, scientists found that a giant amount of methane (about 50 gigatons) is trapped in the form of permafrost in Arctic regions.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Spending the past year as Ecolab’s president and COO, he joined as an executive vice president in 2008 after capping off 15 years as Nestlé’s head of corporate sales in Europe. Solvay repurposes wastewater from dairy production in the United Arab Emirates to cool cows in arid fields. UAE, Switzerland and France.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2020

TerraPower, founded in 2008 and backed by Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates, is partnering with GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy to use molten salt energy storage to provide such flexibility. This design offers passive safety features that differentiate it from water-cooled and steam-powered reactors. The Bellevue, Wash.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 23, 2020

Charlie Baker, Massachusetts' Republican governor, recently committed the state to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, a legally binding limit backed by the state's 2008 Global Warming Solutions Act. Progress on emissions from heating lags power sector. gigawatts of offshore wind contracts it has signed over the past two years.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Lovelock’s main concern was not warming caused by the greenhouse effect, however, but the prospect of a precipitous drop in temperatures caused by the localised cooling influence of atmospheric pollution. He died in 2008. But the authors theorised that localised cooling caused by air pollution might counteract the greenhouse effect.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 11, 2022

A 65% reduction in scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions from federal operations by 2030 from 2008 levels: To meet these targets, the EO requires agencies to, among other things, pursue building electrification strategies, procure carbon pollution-free energy, and use performance contracting to reduce emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The best spots to look for gas, said a report on the Marcellus published in 2008 by the Pennsylvania Geological Survey, is not necessarily where the shale is thickest, but where levels returned by the Geiger counter are highest. “To “Analyses of the water produced with the gas commonly show elevated levels of salinity and radium,” a 2011 U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 22, 2023

His source for this belief is a graph from a 2008 study by the geologist Don J. Easterbrook — who is known for erroneously predicting “global cooling.” Milei, however, is known for denying climate change, claiming that the planet’s temperature is currently at its lowest level in the past 15,000 years.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 10, 2022

Multiple periods of warming then cooling”. Brexit Party candidate Anne Widdecome, a former Conservative Party minister, was one of only five MPs to vote against the 2008 Climate Change Act. The same month he shared a Telegraph article titled “Opposition to coking coal exposes the folly of our climate debate”.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

From his perch at Climate Depot , the blog he’s run since 2009, Morano has elevated fake climate experts, encouraged the harassment of real climate scientists , and promoted the myth of “global cooling.” DonorsTrust gave the group nearly $8 million between 2008 and 2017, according to federal tax data.

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Low Impact

MAY 31, 2020

The result of this was that oil prices started to get into a bubble, and in 2008 it spiked up to $147 in July. We see markets going downstream – first to products and then to services, like heat, cooling, power, mobility. It was crazy. It’s never going to go above $60 again, and I don’t think it will ever approach that.

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Mosaic

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Every school teaches it, everybody knows who the main employers are, and sees it as cool. Heat pumps, despite their name, also cool homes.) Eugene Kirpichov, who runs a new nonprofit called Work on Climate, points out the scale of the challenge. Compare this to a mainstream industry like software,” he said. units up every summer.”

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Since its inception in 2008, The Green Market Oracle has published 7,731 articles which have been viewed on this site a total of 4,012,438 times. As this year ends I want to take a moment to thank our readers and let you know that the new year will bring some exciting changes and additions.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Since its inception in 2008, The Green Market Oracle has published 7,731 articles which have been viewed on this site a total of 4,012,438 times. As this year ends I want to take a moment to thank our readers and let you know that the new year will bring some exciting changes and additions.

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