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When author local activist saw that his community wanted a better, more renewable future he took action — now he’s doing the same work...
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When author local activist saw that his community wanted a better, more renewable future he took action — now he’s doing the same work...
Yesterday’s news about the Paris Climate Accords has provoked a groundswell of commitments for local action on climate change. But what can cities actually...
The first-in-the-nation Clean Energy Partnership has reached the end of its first two-year work plan and has gathered a lot of baseline data. But...
A new report estimating energy usage in 3,649 cities has found that, while there is no one-size-fits-all solution, every city nevertheless has massive potential...
Originally published on ilsr.org. Below is part three of our City Power Play report, a report released in October 2013 (and still relevant today) about the...
What if we could cut city energy use by about one-fourth, from 730 EJ to 540 EJ, in 2050? The alternative is tripling it, as current...
Ever wonder what happened to the notion last August that the city of Minneapolis (MN) would take over its energy utilities? While it may...
It’s one thing to own your utility and have a commitment to renewable energy, but it’s another thing to deliver. The municipal utility in...
Mid-August. A great time for four researchers from Climate Central to publish their new report on urban heat islands—areas with high daily urban vs....
“We can’t do it as an individual, But four hundred communities aggregating and asking for local wind power and solar power – that’s really...
Community choice aggregation describes a situation where a town can become the bulk buyer of electricity on behalf of its residential and small business...
