Hold On To Your Hats, There’s A New (& Old) US Department Of Energy In…
New Biden team set to pick up torch from US Department of Energy, which has kept the clean tech engine running all these years.
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The Number of People Affected by Floods Will Double by 2030
Flooding has already caused more than $1 trillion in losses globally since 1980, and the situation is poised to worsen: New analysis from WRI’s Aqueduct Floods finds that the number of people affected by floods will double worldwide by 2030.
Earth Day At 50 Years Old: 5 Ways To Honor The Legacy & Change The…
Fifty years ago, 20 million Americans (10% of the U.S. population at the time) took to the streets at the first Earth Day to demand a better future. Outraged by polluted air and water, by oil spills and the destruction of nature, these people’s actions changed policies and politics, and sparked the emergence of the modern environmental movement. Within months, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was created and the Clean Air Act was passed into law with bipartisan support.
WRI Ross Center Prize For Cities 2020–2021 — Now Accepting Applications
It is that time of year again that engages and highlights some of the brightest thinkers, engineers, urban planners, environmental pioneers, and inspired world citizens as they work to solve a tremendous amount of global imbalance.
The Fastest Growing Source of Global Emissions: Transport
The multidimensional aspects of a situation are sometimes quite hard to grasp. Take a situation that involves one’s health, one’s transit, and commuting habits. How does travel, whether around the neighborhood, to the store, to visit family, or to commute to a job matter? It matters quite a bit in coexistence.
Google Supports WattTime Power Plant Emissions Tracking Project
With funding from Google.org, WattTime, in collaboration with Carbon Tracker and the World Resources Institute, will create a public database of power plant emissions around the world.
Seeing Energy From Space: 5 Tools Using Remote Sensing To Improve Life On Earth
Access to reliable electricity is essential for improving human livelihoods and is a prerequisite for economic development. Yet hundreds of millions of people lack access to a stable supply. While access to electricity is essential, the sector is also the leading driver of greenhouse gas emissions globally.
Too Many Cities Are Growing Out Rather Than Up — 3 Reasons That’s A Problem
Imagine Lagos, Nigeria, a city of 22 million. What was once a small coastal town just a few decades ago has exploded into a sprawling megacity spanning 452 square miles. Its rapid growth has stretched the city’s services impossibly thin: Less than 10 percent of people live in homes with sewer connections; less than 20 percent have access to tap water. Many houses are in slums and informal settlements at the city’s periphery. Now picture Lagos twice as big.
Which Countries Use The Most Fossil Fuels?
Originally published on WRI’s Resource Watch platform, a platform which features hundreds of data sets all in one place on the state of the planet’s resources and citizens.
Urban Transformations: In Medellín, Metrocable Connects People In More Ways Than One
Medellín, Colombia used to be the murder capital of the world. With the explosion of the global drug trade in the 1980s, crime burgeoned, plunging the city into a state of lawlessness. Slum communities, stacked up along the perilous slopes of the surrounding Aburrá Valley, were on the front lines of the violence and mayhem.But today, Medellín is transformed.
