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For the full story, visit Generation180’s blog post here. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) launched the Renew America’s Schools Program in 2022, a grant program created in the Bipartisan Infrastructure law that will distribute $500 million over five...
by jamiewertz
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on Wed Apr 24, 2024 at 09:10 AM PDT
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We’re celebrating Earth Day today by highlighting the benefits of clean energy and solar power. Did you know that solar power is saving families and schools millions of dollars a year off of their energy bills? It’s putting “money in the bank” to be...
by jamiewertz
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on Mon Apr 22, 2024 at 06:49 AM PDT
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Underfunded Pennsylvania school district shines as a clean energy leader through solar power Near the state capital of Harrisburg lies the town of Steelton, Pennsylvania, the home of America’s first steel company and the birthplace of an industry that...
by jamiewertz
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on Wed Apr 17, 2024 at 03:19 PM PDT
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When Arnaud de Borchgrave and Robert Moss introduced the word “disinformation” to readers of their 1980 roman à clef spy novel “The Spike”—deriving the term from the Russian dezinformatsiya, the title of a KGB black propaganda department—it didn’t make...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Apr 07, 2024 at 08:00 AM PDT
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The spotlight is a weekly, categorized compilation of links and excerpts from environmentally related posts at Daily Kos. Any posts included in the collection do not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of them. Because of the...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Mar 31, 2024 at 01:08 PM PDT
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Emergency electricity is technologically, economically, and practically trivial. You don't need to know how to build lightbulbs, batteris, PV cells... from scratch. They are all readily available for affordable prices as mass commodity products. If you...
by gmoke
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on Thu Mar 28, 2024 at 09:08 PM PDT
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There was a bit a of news last week from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. That’s the 32-year-old process, backed by treaty, by which limits on carbon emissions are negotiated. To the government ministers and negotiators...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Mar 31, 2024 at 08:00 AM PDT
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At Sierra magazine, in a no-paywall article, veteran investigative reporter Rebecca Burns writes on Climate-Science Deniers, Right-Wing Think Tanks, and Fossil Fuel Shills Are Plotting Against the Clean Energy Transition. Two or three paragraphs cannot...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Mar 17, 2024 at 08:00 AM PDT
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The spotlight is a weekly, categorized compilation of links and excerpts from environmentally related posts at Daily Kos. Any posts included in the collection do not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of them. Because of the...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Mar 10, 2024 at 08:35 AM PDT
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World’s biggest “passive house” office building https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/carbon-free-buildings/boston-skyscraper-named-worlds-biggest-passive-house-office...
by gmoke
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on Tue Mar 05, 2024 at 05:06 PM PST
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As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group is for us to check in at, to let people know we are alive, doing OK, and not affected by such things as heat, blizzards, floods, wildfires,
by bigjacbigjacbigjac
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on Mon Mar 04, 2024 at 10:01 PM PST
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The eight counties that make up California’s San Joaquin Valley Air District form the nation’s most productive farming area. In 2022, it produced citrus, almonds, tomatoes, pistachios, walnuts, alfalfa, corn, winter wheat, rice, livestock, and other...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Mar 10, 2024 at 08:00 AM PDT
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It's been quite a while since I've written anything here - August of 2015, to be exact - to the point where I no longer live in Massachusetts! I've been busy... In February of 2016, I met the love of my life, Jen - we moved in together in April and got...
by AnotherMassachusettsLiberal
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on Sat Mar 02, 2024 at 08:22 AM PST
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The spotlight is a weekly, categorized compilation of links and excerpts from environmentally related posts at Daily Kos. Any posts included in the collection do not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of them. Because of the...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Mar 03, 2024 at 08:00 AM PST
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Rod Lamberts wrote a decade ago: If there’s one thing decades of advertising, public relations, psychology research and science communication have taught us, it’s that throwing facts at opposing opinions with the hope of changing people’s minds is like...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Mar 03, 2024 at 08:00 AM PST
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The larger solar parabolic trough on the left I made in the 1970s for the New England Coastal Power Show, an energy show which traveled throughout the Northeast for a few years after the second Energy Crisis. We used it to heat water, make tea, and...
by gmoke
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on Wed Feb 07, 2024 at 07:33 PM PST
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One of President Joe Biden’s endeavors that can be fairly described as awesome is his “30 by 30” initiative to conserve and protect 30% of America’s land and water by 2030. Currently, just 12% falls into the protected category. The key question: Where...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Feb 11, 2024 at 08:00 AM PST
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You can make a difference to the hurt being caused by climate chaos and the great extinction event in your town or your city! How? Reuse, repurpose, and recycle this information. You can push your local politicians to act. It will make a difference!...
by birches
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on Wed Jan 31, 2024 at 10:21 AM PST
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The spotlight is a weekly, categorized compilation of links and excerpts from environmentally related posts at Daily Kos. Any posts included in the collection do not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of them. Because of the...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Jan 21, 2024 at 10:01 AM PST
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Polls have shown her to be the only candidate who has a ghost of a chance of edging out Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination, but Nikki Haley has a tough row to hoe to achieve that unless the courts take him out of the running before...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Jan 14, 2024 at 08:00 AM PST
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