US DOE’s Better Buildings program created building resilience resources and tools under Efficiency-Resilience Nexus. The resources are intended to help organizations across different sectors take steps to build resilience and increase their ability to bounce back from …
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New Methane Detecting Satellite Technology Rises Up
The Environmental Defense Fund announced a deal to launch a methane-detecting satellite by the nonprofit, MethaneSAT, and an EDF subsidiary. The launch is anticipated for October 2022 on the Falcon 9 rocket from SpaceX. The $88 …
U Hawai’i Maui Achieves Net Zero Energy Campus
Article originally published by University of Hawai’i News. Through a combination of on-site photovoltaic energy, distributed energy storage and energy-efficiency measures, the University of Hawaii’s Maui campus is now completely fossil fuel free. The solar …
Workshops for Educators to Learn to Teach Renewable Energy
The KidWind Project has launched an additional round of virtual workshops for this spring designed to help educators of 6-12th grade or community college science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM) teach about renewable energy during distance and hybrid …
Multifamily Housing with Affordable Units Shines with Solar PV
Stagecoach Trails Apartments, a 46 unit multifamily building completed in 2019 in the City of Middleton, hosts a 24.8 kW solar PV system that helps offset electricity in the common areas of the building. TIF funding …
Fossil fuel air pollution responsible for 1 in 5 deaths worldwide
Article originally published by E&E News. More than 8 million people died in 2018 from fossil fuel pollution, significantly higher than previous research suggested, meaning that air pollution from burning fossil fuels like coal and …
Ford To Go All Electric in Europe by 2030
Ford pledged that it would sell only electric cars in Europe by 2030. It will spend $1 billion to convert its manufacturing plant in Cologne, Germany to it first electric passenger vehicle facility in Europe …
Affordable Compact Tesla EV Game Changer
A Teslarati article from January entitled “Tesla to produce $25K car as early as 2022 in Gigafactory Shanghai” is reported as game changing where their entry-level compact EV in China will be affordable and sold …
Governor’s Task Force on Climate Change Report
Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes released the Governor’s Task Force on Climate Change Report. in early December. The report includes 55 climate solutions across nine sectors that will lay the foundation for the state to better adapt …
Vanilla – The Ingredient of Ground-breaking Sustainable Energy Storage
Using green chemistry, researchers at the Institute of Bioproducts and Paper Technology at Graz University of Technology in Austria, successfully made flow batteries more sustainable by replacing the heavy metals or rare earths in the …