Trump-Era Energy Storage Challenge Feeds New $20 Million Flow Battery Fire
US banks on flow batteries for rapid decarbonization, eyeballs at least 300 gigawatt-hours of battery-type energy storage online by 2030.
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This Space Technology Can Cut Climate Pollution On Earth: MethaneSAT
The latest science warns that the window for preventing the most catastrophic global warming is closing fast. A seemingly small difference — just half a degree Celsius — can intensify the effects.
Intentional Endowments Network: Working Toward A Sustainable & Regenerative Tomorrow
Isn’t it time that your higher education institution directed its endowments toward a sustainable future?
Research Breakthrough Could Lead To “Smart” Solar Panels & Buildings
Researchers at Harvard studying the feet of geckos have created new polymers that could lead to solar panels able to track the sun autonomously with no external equipment or energy required.
Scientists Prescribe A Healthy Dose Of Sulphate Particles To Promote Global Cooling On The Cheap
Researchers at Harvard have proposed a plan for sulphate dispersal they say could cool the Earth by 1.5 degrees C within 15 years at minimal cost. Is ir real or just pie in the sky?
Harvard Board Member Kat Taylor Resigns Over School’s Fossil Fuel Investments
Nearly two months after she called on Harvard University to divest from fossil fuels in a move she deemed necessary to “address the existential crisis of our time,” Kat Taylor, Member of the Harvard University Board of Overseers, announced her resignation in protest over the school’s failure to divest from fossil fuels.
Harvard Board Member Kat Taylor Calls For Fossil Fuel Divestment
Kat Taylor, Member of the Harvard University Board of Overseers, called for the University to divest from fossil fuels in a move she states “would not only take steps to address the existential crisis of our time, but it would allow the University to lead its peers, as few, if any, American universities thus far have taken this important moral stance.”
CleanTechnica Divestment Year in Review 2017
Divestment has reached an all-time peak in 2017, with religious, higher education, wealth fund, and other institutions joining in to end the fossil fuel infrastructure and transition to 100% renewable energy for all.
Harvard University “Pausing” Investments For Some Fossil Fuels
After several years of growing pressure from students, faculty, alumni, and outside proponents of fossil fuel divestment, Harvard University is set to pause investments in some fossil fuels.
Harvard Students Appeal Fossil Fuel Divestment Case
Students from Harvard University have continued their legal fight, which aims to force Harvard University to divest its endowments from fossil fuel investments. A group of Harvard University students, the Harvard Climate Justice Coalition, have been fighting a long-running battle to legally force their university to divest itself from investing … [continued]
