… to estimate Southern New England residents’ willingness to pay (WTP) a premium for local forest products, clean drinking water from forested watersheds, and access to recreation on private forestland. A survey … lumber, honey, maple syrup and Christmas trees. Estimates indicate that there is potential for decision makers to create new markets or policies that create economic …
… The objective of this project was to develop a new economic formula for maximizing present value of net benefits of wind farm investment. This research … model, strategies were proposed based on component reliability and its contribution to the energy generation loss in kilowatt-hours given the component failure. These four maintenance … hub height, and the rotor swept area. Lastly, the investigators compiled a comprehensive database of WT component failure rates based on review of the literature of field failure …
… Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPSs), using Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) to track and commoditize renewable energy generation, have made … used. RPSs have been unable to achieve these goals due to inherent limitations of a market for RECs. In states with the most aggressive clean energy policies, the shortcomings of RPSs … and time-of-use multipliers, to deliver meaningful environmental outcomes. These proposals tend to fragment markets, resulting in poor economic efficiency. Meanwhile, proposals to …
… how expressions of autonomous, intrinsic or self-determined motivation are the driving forces of a sustainability characterised by individual and planetary flourishing in contrast … and transformational leadership. This model for transforming sustainability has the potential to provide psychological access to individual flourishing and correlative access to … solutions that span cognitive boundaries. The investigators have completed the qualitative data collection with Patagonia and are scheduled to conduct interviews with our second study …
… to climate change, the science is unequivocal: global temperatures will continue to rise for decades, largely due to greenhouse gases produced by human activities. This will have catastrophic effects on human health, infrastructure, energy, agriculture, fisheries, sea levels, natural ecosystems, and more. For many, the … their goals for reducing them, but after scouring the internet, it became clear that the data is not publicly available in a free, consolidated format. The Carbon Disclosure Project …
… Renewable Thermal Technologies (RTT), especially heat pumps paired with solar, have the potential to dramatically decrease energy consumption and by extension energy emissions. Using information from the Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECs), Houston's Climate Action …
… Agrivoltaics is a solar market subsegment that co-locates solar energy production and agricultural operations. Combining these practices into one space … benefits farmers, solar developers, rural communities, and the earth itself. This emerging form of renewable energy blends complementary land uses and eliminates the false “food or … that has traditionally dominated discussions about solar-agricultural land use. People often feel forced to choose between fuel or farming, climate or conservation, energy or rural …
… 2263 7453 Key Economic Benefits of Renewable Energy on Public Lands … Key Economic Benefits of Renewable Energy on Public Lands Nikki … of the past. Along with their harmful impacts on our health, climate, and clean air and water, fossil fuels subject dependent communities to unpredictable boom and bust cycles. … 5,000 megawatts (MW), enough energy to power over two million homes. The best available data show that rent and royalty payments from renewable energydevelopment on public lands …
… the institutions required to sustain a new market. What is interesting about renewable energy in general and offshore wind in particular is that, across settings, the issues that … the stakeholder groups are similar and stable; the overall desire to create a market –for environmental, political, and/or economic reasons—is considerable; and yet, there is … Bennett, 2004) where a deeper set of interviews, ethnographic observations, and archival data will be collected. The goal of these matched comparisons is to flesh out the specific …
… and 2) Pit Planting (PP), in which seeds are planted in shallow pits to improve moisture retention. The project was designed in two phases to test different methods of information diffusion. In the first phase, a baseline survey was conducted with 3800 farming … is in the process of entering, cleaning, and conducting a preliminary analysis of the data. Project Outcomes An additional $50,000 was also received from the World Bank Research …