Grist

AUGUST 2, 2023

Rather than checking out books, I was there to check out a room — a nondescript space with a few tables and chairs, a hand-washing station, and two quiet but impressive MERV 13 air filters. In both places, residents often rely on opening windows to keep cool inside. “But our summers have gotten substantially warmer.”

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Business Green

JUNE 22, 2021

The Microsoft founder’s new book further strengthens our conviction about investing in the energy transition, according to Schroders. When one of the world's wealthiest individuals writes a book on avoiding climate disaster - and suggests changes we all need to make to our lifestyles - it is easy to be cynical.

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 14, 2022

When the history books tell the story of how society took climate action to decarbonize our economy and build a cleaner world for society, 2022 will have a headlining role in that narrative! Dandelion Energy raised a $70M Series B-1 round to install geothermal heating and cooling solutions. Partnerships + Deployments.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

When you’ve followed the evolving research of a leading clean energy expert and become a supporter of his vision for a global clean energy transition, it should come as no surprise that I was eager to crack open Mark Jacobson’s 2021 book release, 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 16, 2024

  Ammonia demand for fertilizer and other existing uses by IEA scenario (Source: IEA ) Shipping fuel: Maritime shipping, which accounts for 3% of CO2 emissions, is betting big on ammonia. EV fleet and reinvest in gasoline cars, citing low demand and high repair costs for EVs. of global emissions. 

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 25, 2021

Carbon Emissions and Energy Demand. Bill Gates excellently addresses this topic in his book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. of the world’s electricity demand which is currently mostly sourced from harmful fossil fuels. Utilize the recent shift to remote work and encourage telecommuting days to reduce net energy demand.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 25, 2021

Carbon Emissions and Energy Demand. Bill Gates excellently addresses this topic in his book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. of the world’s electricity demand which is currently mostly sourced from harmful fossil fuels. Utilize the recent shift to remote work and encourage telecommuting days to reduce net energy demand.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 20, 2021

The cost-competitiveness of renewable energy alternatives, air pollution regulations and water scarcity have also been putting pressure on the coal sector — and that was before the COVID-19 pandemic cratered energy demand. But in absolute terms, coal use will increase as India’s overall energy demand grows.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 23, 2021

It’s also a clear example of how climate change is an infrastructure problem – my specialty as a historian of climate science at Stanford University and editor of the book series “ Infrastructures.”. has built systems of transportation, heating, cooling, manufacturing and agriculture that rely primarily on fossil fuels.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

These included Shell-produced content such as the Time For Energy film, and a book called Energy published the same year. In 1962, Shell’s chief geologist, Houston-based Marion King Hubbert, produced a book-length report on energy for the U.S. A parallel world of Shell-backed publications brushed such warnings aside.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

They began by summing all the emissions released at power plants to keep buildings cool and electricity flowing to wall outlets. He wrote the Passive Solar Energy Book in 1979, and now leads Architecture 2030 , a non-profit that aims to remake the built environment into a climate solution. Designers need to specify it.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Her recent book Back To Earth pairs fun astronaut trivia (you can take a “shower” by “gently squeezing hot water out of the straw of a drink bag directly onto your body and watching it coat you like a second skin”) with facts about pressing environmental issues — climate change, microplastics, and the insect apocalypse. NASA / Bill Ingalls.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 28, 2023

You double-book and spend just as much time picking what to prioritize as you do once you’re actually there. ⚡ AssetCool , a Sheffield, United Kingdom-based photonic cooling for power lines developer, raised $3M in Series A funding from Northern Gritstone, Northern Powerhouse Investments, and Kero Development Partners.

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2021

But in February, shortly before an independent Harvard advisory committee was expected to give the go-ahead, a group of Swedish environmental organizations and the Indigenous Saami Council sent a letter demanding the project be canceled. Some segments of the media adopted a more frenzied tone, blurring facts in an effort to get clicks.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Depending on what your gift recipient is into, you can choose from books about everything from zero-waste cooking and vegetarianism to vegan recipes and ethical cooking. Organic Aromas makes beautiful diffusers that use cool-mist technology with no heat, no water and no plastic.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 23, 2019

We take it for granted that we have lighting on demand, which was basically magic a hundred years ago. Principle 2 - Energy Mortgage What happens when there is so much energy generated by renewables, demand for electricity cannot meet the supply? One example that Thomas Rau provides in the book is with regards to office lighting.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 60

Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 23, 2019

We take it for granted that we have lighting on demand, which was basically magic a hundred years ago. Principle 2 - Energy Mortgage What happens when there is so much energy generated by renewables, demand for electricity cannot meet the supply? One example that Thomas Rau provides in the book is with regards to office lighting.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 60

Clean Energy Trust

MARCH 5, 2021

Everything’s Bigger in Texas, Including the Power Grid Failures Credit: Ron Jenkins / Getty Images People had a bad time in Texas when extreme weather created demand and supply shocks which led to rolling blackouts. Dandelion raises $40M to scale geothermal home heating and cooling business. What went wrong? Who’s to blame?

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Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 52

Mosaic

DECEMBER 27, 2022

A renewable-energy engineer based in Massachusetts pointed out to me that his state needs close to ten gigawatts’ worth of electrical power to meet current demand. Every school teaches it, everybody knows who the main employers are, and sees it as cool. Heat pumps, despite their name, also cool homes.) units up every summer.”

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AGreenLiving

JULY 1, 2021

Related: Adventuring in New River Gorge, the newest US national park Fayetteville, a town of about 2,800, is quite a cool spot, with antiquing, a historic theater, lots of restaurants and the new Love Hope Center for the Arts. Riders who want a little more guidance can book a tour with the bike farm. Experts also offer bike clinics.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Detailing them all would require a book, if not several, to explain and goes beyond the scope of this blog. Each mode has a corresponding power profile, energy demand and drive train configuration, of which the latter is currently LNG/Diesel-Electric for each mode. In 2017 alone, there were about 93,161 vessels in existence.

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Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 78

GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

I think one of the things that also distinguishes the pledge is a commitment to sending these market signals, the demand for the products and services that companies need to help us decarbonize." . All We Can Save , the book they birthed in September, features 41 powerful voices.

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Sustainability Plastics Organic Retail 546

Charged

MAY 31, 2022

Salim: We started WattEV with the intent of becoming the main provider of public charging for electric trucks, but we quickly realized that it wasn’t enough for us to just build the infrastructure and expect the demand to pick up naturally. Salim: I think the biggest factor for them is having enough of a market demand to do that.

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Electricity Batteries Hydrogen Transportation 100

Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 22, 2019

We take it for granted that we have lighting on demand, which was basically magic a hundred years ago. Principle 2: Energy Mortgage What happens when there is so much energy generated by renewables, demand for electricity cannot meet the supply? In his book Material Matters , he explains it beautifully with his Turntoo Model.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 74

GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Ridesharing demand crashed with COVID-19, and Lyft became part of the frontline delivery and medical access infrastructure. Solvay repurposes wastewater from dairy production in the United Arab Emirates to cool cows in arid fields. And its LyftUp effort seeks to meet transportation needs in underserved urban communities.

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Andrew Winston

MAY 30, 2018

Demand in most regions peaks after dark, as everyone gets home from work, right when solar power is waning. This mismatch creates what the utilities call the “duck curve” problem , named for the misshapen curves of supply and demand. We’ll also need demand-side options, such as a long-standing practice called “ demand response.”

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Low Impact

MAY 31, 2020

Cheney had read a book called Twilight in the Desert , by Matt Simmonds, about peak oil. There’s a forward market, but no physical market, because 30 million barrels per day of demand has disappeared. 30 million barrels of oil demand disappeared. The Chinese, and the buy side are taking advantage of this demand shock.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2021

In May 2021, Brown tweeted out an article by Bjørn Lomborg – author of The Skeptical Environmentalist and Cool It , books that downplay the risks of global warming – about how “exaggerations about climate change” are “destroying our ability to make sensible decisions for the future”.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Government Policy 98

Andrew Winston

JANUARY 7, 2024

In what may be the single biggest sustainability headline of the year, China’s national oil company, Sinopec, said the country had reached peak gasoline demand (in part by radically increasing sales of EVs). But these new rules also demand discussion of impacts on water, biodiversity, human rights, and more.

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Sustainability Fossil fuels Law Climate change 148

Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The use of renewable can be seen in day to day life basically in four areas electricity generation, air and water heating and cooling transportation and rural(off-grid) energy services. For meeting the regular demand of power supply, small power sources are set up known as distributed renewable energy systems.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Ridesharing demand crashed with COVID-19, and Lyft became part of the frontline delivery and medical access infrastructure. Solvay repurposes wastewater from dairy production in the United Arab Emirates to cool cows in arid fields. And its LyftUp effort seeks to meet transportation needs in underserved urban communities.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 19, 2024

While some of the rhetoric may be cooling a bit , external critics of ESG have definitely altered how companies act, especially in the U.S. As demand for more sustainable or “impact” funds grew, the financial community rushed to create products, labeling them ESG funds, but without real guidelines, standards, or definitions backing them up.

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Politics Sustainability Law Organic 78

Andrew Winston

JANUARY 4, 2023

For a sample of what technology is doing, look no further than the very cool and slightly creepy public database, Climate TRACE. Join the Net Positive movement (and find links for where to buy the book all over the world). Business stands up for the rights of women and the LGBTQ+ community.

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