Category: Renewable Energy / Environment
Catalyst, a highly-regarded Australian weekly science program, has produced an excellent episode describing in a very accessible yet in-depth manner the technology that is enabling single-family homes and multi-family communities to vastly reduce their reliance on the electrical grid through the use of solar panels, battery storage, and energy management systems. In […]
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Moody’s reported this week that the global issuance of green bonds in 2016 could surpass $50 billion “by a significant margin.” Merely meeting the $50 billion threshold would mark a nearly 20% increase over the $42.5 billion issued 2015, which itself was the best year for green bonds since they were
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At the United Nations-hosted Investor Summit on Climate Risk this week Mike Bloomberg, Al Gore, and others urged businesses and philanthropists to invest more in renewable energy resources. The conference, organized by the nonprofit sustainable advocacy organization Ceres, is designed to sustain the momentum from Paris and catalyze further actions that investors,
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The Super Bowl 50 Host Committee has announced its “net positive commitment,” which will be built around four key pillars of the Committee’s “Play Your Part” campaign: Reducing impact on climate change by delivering a low emissions event; Responsibly using materials and resources; Inspiring fans to embrace sustainability personally; and Leaving
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The distributed solar industry has thrived in recent years with the availability of low-cost financing for small-scale installations, with more than 750,000 homes and businesses going solar and new projects being installed every two minutes according to the Solar Energy Industry Association. Distributed-scale wind power, on the other hand, has
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