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A decidedly impartial review of Mark Jacobson’s 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything

Renewable Energy World

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. Jacobson’s Early Story.

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Nobody is listening to climate scientists. What if they went on strike?

Grist

Earlier this week, a European climate monitoring service announced that the last seven years were the hottest ever recorded. The most successful strikes and protests manage to withhold something necessary from those in power: labor, goods, smoothly operating infrastructure. Since 1990, when the U.N.’s

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A North-Pole, How Much Longer?

Mr. Sustainability

An ice-free Arctic might be a boon for the shipping industry in the short term, but comes at potential catastrophic cost to our economy in the form of environmental disaster and political upheaval. As long as there is ice in a body of water, any surrounding heat energy is carried towards the ice to make it melt.

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How 5 communities across the US are seeking environmental justice

GreenBiz

Several houses near her home remain vacant. It's also home to the highest rates of lead poisoning among children in the city. It's race, class, money and politics. It's race, class, money and politics. He bought a plot of land on the edge of town and built a home, finished by the time his fourth child was born, he said.

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How 5 communities across the US are seeking environmental justice

AGreenLiving

Several houses near her home remain vacant. It’s also home to the highest rates of lead poisoning among children in the city. … It’s race, class, money and politics. “It’s race, class, money and politics. In many ways, Maleta Kimmons defines her neighborhood by what it lacks. ” St.