… In the Navajo Nation, electricity may be a fragile commodity as climate change intensifies. Other tribes in the United States face similar energy … Applications are due by Dec. 10. For facility-scale installations, the amount of the source energy that must be displaced is 20 percent – and for renewable energy and/or combined … plantsserving tribal lands. Four power plants in the Puget Sound region are under fourfeet above sea level and may be damaged by waves or storm surges. Extinguishing the Effects …
… We call it SILO - Slides Instead of Learning Opportunities, and it’ssomething you may have experienced … break, several dozen audience members gather in a lecture hall. They eat sandwiches, sip coffee, and surreptitiously check their email on their phones. Meanwhile, in the background, a … Energy and Environment at the adidas Group, was planning a recent visit to Yale, she shared our desire to avoid SILO. So we asked her what we ask all of our GreenLight clients - What’s …
… The Sabin Stories will introduce you to former winners of the Sabin Sustainable Venture Prize as … satellites to determine the size and species of trees in forests. Faced with limited resources for a forest management project in Armenia, the young entrepreneur came up with an … though was a leap forward for the team. “ I'm not sure we would have followed through with our venture idea without the initial funding and the vote of confidence we got from the …
… Will 2015 prove to be a historic year for climate and sustainability? There is reason to hope, according to Peter … of the center, and also included Frances Beinecke, the former president of the National Resources Defense Council and a scholar at Yale; Pavan Sukhdev, an environmental economist and … of the center, and also included Frances Beinecke, the former president of the National Resources Defense Council and a scholar at Yale; Pavan Sukhdev, an environmental economist and …
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… This piece was originally published on Environmental Leader. The most recent California drought is in its fourth year. Although some point to the potential savior of El Niño in the fall and winter, … of wine grapes, though, has gotten much less press of late — with the exception of stories like “ California Drought Produces Tastier Wine Grapes .” And that’s too bad. A …
… This piece was originally published on Environmental Leader. The terrorist attacks of 2001, … A quick scan of sustainability events over this period reveals a series of newsstories, beginning with Silent Spring, that have become household names — the crash of the … below-living wage salaries, human rights infringements, consumption of constrained resources) all represent costs to society that are not factored into the price of an operation …
… What is hindering the availability of public capital and financing options for distributed solar? … to becoming a major game-changer in the path to unleashing distributed solar finance. “Our mission is to bring the solar industry up to a level where capital markets will say … issues instead of creating and revising financing contracts. “It’s not the contract that isgoing to sell the system,” Rottman said. “It’s the quality of the business – how you treat …
… Originally posted on the Clean Energy Finance Forum Imagine you could design the electricity market in … There are no pre-existing programs to satisfy and no political baggage to consider. Your only guideline is to allow the continued growth of solar power and distributed … would allow consumers to avoid energy consumption during peak hours of the day. How Can Carbon Costs Play a Role? “Price, value and cost are not the same things in utility …
… This blog was originally published on Cool Green Science , the Science Blog of The Nature … interrupt fish runs. Seawalls hold back sediment that starve beaches of sand. This, of course, has not gone unnoticed by the conservation community. But perhaps these thoughts are … that have improved resource management. Think fish ladders. Now, many engineers are goingbeyond that. They do not see nature assomething to control, or even something they …