🌞 3 New Sources of Gratitude: Sunny Climate News
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🌅 EXTRA, Extra— Sunny Climate News: on the Horizon
Hello, hello! Wow how everything’s coming up solar. Heaps of it, and so here are beams of light pointing towards even more Sunny Climate News:
Clean Energy Progress ⚡ Thanks to renewable power, the world’s electricity supply is close to peak emissions
Climate Leadership in Action 📣 623,178 people, 8 nations, & 2,250 orgs say it’s time for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
Billions of Trillions of Climate Possibilities: 📈 Powering Solutions Onwards
1. Clean Energy Progress⚡ Thanks to renewable power, the world’s electricity supply is close to peak emissions
‘Loss and damage’ deal struck to help countries worst hit by climate crisis
3 Recommendations for Better Methane Gas Monitoring Towards a Fossil Free Future
First, they call for continuous air quality monitoring in nearby communities.
“The air quality monitoring needs to be done by the pipeline company, not state tax dollars doing the air quality monitoring,” Mast said. “Communities shouldn’t have to pay to protect themselves from pollution.”
Her retirement home said ‘no’ to solar panels. She got it to buy 1,344
Retirement communities are going solar, and it's attracting residents
"Several senior living providers are looking to solar options as a way of benefiting their communities and also touting a commitment to environmental options that reduce their carbon footprint," notes McKnights Senior Living, an industry trade publication.
Mixing solar and farming could be key to clean energy future
D.C. unveils two community solar carports at Metro stations
Community Solar Is Growing to Fill the Gaps in Clean Energy
Short-Term Headaches Won’t Stop Renewables Shift, Bloomberg Analyst Says
Yale: Battery storage helped Texas power through the summer heat
Canary Media: Chart - Clean energy attracting nearly twice as much investment as fossils
PV-Magazine: U.S. Geological Survey and Berkeley Labs release updated solar project database
To figure out the future climate, scientists are researching how trees form clouds
How your child’s school bus might prevent blackouts
Cultures, Countries & Your Sustainability Story
Igniting rapid transformations across all sectors will require a tremendous acceleration in global climate action. For example, to get on track for 2030, the world needs to:
Reduce the annual rate of deforestation 4 times faster.
Increase the coverage of rapid transit 6 times faster.
Phase out coal in electricity generation 7 times faster.
Lower consumption of beef, lamb and goat in high-consuming regions 8 times faster.
Decarbonize cement production more than 10 times faster.
Raise the investment ratio of low-carbon to fossil fuel energy supply more than 10 times faster.
The humble trash truck is ready for an all-electric upgrade
2. Climate Leadership in Action 📣 623,178 people, 8 nations, & 2,250 orgs say it’s time for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
How a methane rule can protect latinos impacted by climate harms
Never fly again? Go vegan? It was too hard. But I still cut my emissions by 61% and it made life simpler and better
Climate change is transforming architecture: think houses on stilts, with a rounded shape like a ship that can survive a hurricane
‘Sponge cities': An absorbing idea in the face of climate change
It’s time to admit that our health and climate crises are one
This county could create the strictest workplace heat rules in the U.S.
After October festivities, Illinoisans smash thousands of pumpkins to divert them from landfills, cut methane
3. Billions of Trillions of Climate Possibilities: 📈 Powering Solutions Onwards
A ‘Ghost River’ Is Unearthed in Baltimore
That’s it for this week! Thanks for showing-up for a more beautiful renewable world. 💚