Improving The Efficiency Of Your Home, Part 1: Insulation & Air Sealing
Energy efficiency can help slow the rate of climate change. Learn about making your home more efficient so you can reduce carbon production and also save money.
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2035: Clean Grid 90%, Electrify 50%
For those deeply interested in our future energy system and how it will evolve, I highly recommend two in-depth papers published in the last year. Here I will show a similar vision step-by-step using some of the same assumptions and publicly available data using “back of the envelope calculations” (spreadsheets).
100% By 2035? 90% Might Be Better: Consider The Opportunity Costs
I would love to have 100% clean electricity by 2035. Such a goal is admirable for its audacity and for its ability to get people motivated. For that I applaud it. But when we get down to it, will it be smart policy? Could it be that 90% would provide greater carbon savings than 100%?
On Earth Day, Inspiring The Next Generation Of Eco-Friendly Scientists — CleanTechnica Interview
The cutest fight for survival you’ll ever see on television is also an Earth Day rallying call for the future scientists of the world.
Environmental Conservation Is Part Of The Energy Transition
An interview with Michael Krieger, Competence Centre for Nature Conservation and Energy Transition (KNE) in Berlin.
How Much Do Fortune 100 Companies Factor In Biodiversity Accountability?
“Do what I say, not what I do” should be mantra of major companies who support biodiversity in language but not business decisions.
Clean Energy Training & Solar Comes To Nepal UNESCO Heritage Site
An initiative to empower women in a rural UNESCO site is bringing clean energy to the region in a way that speaks to local knowledge.
INDC Clues From Large Developing Nations: Part 3
In the second part of this series on the March 31 UN climate target, we stopped at China in our list of INDCs. Analysts expect that country to present its formal commitment in June. The other main players from the developing world are India (with 5.9% of emissions), Brazil (1.4%), and Indonesia … [continued]
Is Energy Efficiency The More Persistent Threat To Utilities?
While local renewable energy and energy efficiency are both proving to be near-existential threats to electric utilities in the early 21st century, the trends aren’t the same. The rapid rise of renewable energy gets the headlines, and it’s big news. Total renewable energy capacity has grown 10-fold since 2003 and … [continued]
Fracking Wastewater Spoils California Drinking, Farm Supplies
Central California, already painfully stressed by the worst drought in 50 years (which the US Drought Monitor designates as “extreme or exceptional drought,” the most serious category on the agency’s five-level scale), has another problem with its water supply. Aquifers that supply drinking and irrigation water have recently had to … [continued]
