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5 Benefits of Solar Energy to the Environment

The Environmental Blog

When we are bombarded with negative news and potential threats regularly, it can take a toll on our well-being and overall happiness. Solar energy in the forest. So how does solar energy benefit the environment? The first benefit solar companies provide is a reduction in air pollution. Slowed Climate Change.

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Meet the startup producing oil to fight climate change

Grist

It had been about a year and a half since he left his job at an aerospace company to found a clean energy startup in San Francisco with three of his friends, but the path to success he’d once envisioned had crumbled. Charm would use the same technology, but instead of turning plants into a useful energy product, it would offer a service.

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Battery installations in Australia up 20%, here’s why

Renewable Energy World

The rate solar system owners can earn for selling energy back to the grid (Feed in tariff) has fallen significantly in the last 2-3 years in line with decreasing wholesales prices. In fact in many states, the wholesale cost of electricity moves into negative prices in the middle of the day when rooftop solar system generation peaks.

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Climate Technology: What Your Business Should Know

Green Business Bureau

Increased awareness of the negative impact of business on the environment is driving companies to develop sustainable and climate-friendly goods and services. This includes tech and offerings like electric vehicles, lithium-ion batteries, sustainable travel programs, as well as clean energy solutions — like wind, solar and geothermal.

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Revealed: Media Blitz Against Heat Pumps Funded by Gas Lobby Group

DeSmogBlog

An energy trade association that represents and promotes gas boilers and manufacturers is behind a barrage of negative press attacking heat pumps, DeSmog has learned. Much of the media coverage about heat pumps features Mike Foster, a former Labour MP and the chief executive of the Energy and Utilities Association trade body.

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How Patagonia helped save Europe's last wild river - and navigated a path for others to follow

Business Green

Hydropower dam proposals have ballooned across the Balkans over the last two decades, as the leaders of some of Europe's poorest regions have looked to tap their abundant natural resources to secure access clean energy. But the picture is much more complicated.

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A North-Pole, How Much Longer?

Mr. Sustainability

Inspired by climate anxiety, I set out to do some 21st century exploring on the internet myself. In this blog I aim to figure out how much longer will we still have Arctic sea ice. Unfortunately, all kinds of positive (or negative?) Sea Ice extent is going down. feedback loops will cause this melting to possibly accelerate.