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NeighborWorks America: Sustainability Improvements Help Build Larger Community Resilience

Green Business Bureau

and Puerto Rico, NeighborWorks America is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization working to achieve housing affordability and community resilience across the nation. The organization’s Green Committee meets quarterly to organize sustainability and community outreach plans and communicate progress with the rest of the divisions.

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Utilities plus telcos: The case for an arranged marriage

GreenBiz

Japan’s NTT DoCoMo is reported to have reduced grid-power usage by as much as 40 percent at some of its base stations by using solar panels and high-capacity batteries. Several have taken major steps: Witness Google’s acquisition of Motorola’s cellular handset business in 2012 and its 2014 buy of smart thermostat provider Nest.

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From fiction to reality: How resilience hubs could help people weather disasters — and build community

Grist

In 2012, Baja (who goes by one name and uses she and ki pronouns) was working in hazard mitigation for the city of Baltimore. But they did trust community-based organizations that were already doing the work of providing essential services and fostering community connection. ” Check out that piece here.] So what do we do?’”

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From Backwoods to Bankrupt: The Rise and Fall of Real Goods Solar

GreenTechMedia

A decade earlier, Real Goods Solar grew organically and through acquisition and pulled in tens of millions in revenue. Schaeffer said he laid them out in the parking lot and verified that they could charge batteries. Real Goods Solar ended its corporate life on the industry's periphery last month, penniless and trading for pennies.

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Xlinks Revives Desertec’s Dream, With a Few Twists

GreenTechMedia

In Xlinks’ case, the plan is to install 10 gigawatts of PV and wind generation capacity along with 25 gigawatt-hours of battery storage near Tantan in Southern Morocco and then pipe the electricity production all the way to Britain. The company admits the idea is nothing new. Even assuming a total project cost of £16 billion ($21.6

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Media brief: The impact of clean stimulus measures on the U.S. economy following the 2008 downturn

Clean Energy Canada

Two weeks ago, Clean Energy Canada and 11 clean energy sector industry associations and organizations sent a letter to Prime Minister Trudeau detailing the benefits of employing clean-energy-focussed stimulus measures. Battery costs for electric vehicles decreased by over two-thirds in that same time period. In many parts of the U.S.,

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Montana Repeals State Energy Policy as Climate Trial Nears

DeSmogBlog

In 2011 the state legislature amended the policy to add provisions calling for increased fossil fuel development, along with references to developing other energy resources and technologies like wind, green hydrogen, and batteries. Zinke was also on the board of oil pipeline company QS Energy from 2012 to 2015. Ryan Zinke , the U.S.

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