Communities around the world aren’t waiting for global leaders to take action on climate change. They’re taking action now. This episode of In the World, an original series by Fusion, highlights three communities that have already transitioned away from fossil fuels to run completely on renewables. One of communities featured, Burlington, Vermont, was featured on EcoWatch earlier this […]
Fossil fuel stocks tumbled while renewable energy soared on Monday, the first day of trading after global leaders cemented their landmark climate pact in Paris. Under the agreement, countries have pledged to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to keep global warming beneath 1.5 degrees Celsius. And it is clear the fossil fuel […]
Nassau, New York, a town of 5,000 people just outside of Albany, New York, plans to disconnect from the electrical grid. Last week, the town board voted to get 100 percent of its power from renewables by 2020. The town is making the move both as a way to “increase its reliance on renewable sources of energy and […]
Leonardo DiCaprio and former UK Climate Change Minister Greg Barker are teaming up to deliver renewable energy to some of the world’s 2 billion citizens that live without access to reliable electricity. Powerhive, an energy solutions provider for emerging markets, announced yesterday that DiCaprio and Barker have joined its advisory board. Proud to join @Powerhive’s advisory board to support […]
It appears that nearly everybody wants to disassociate itself from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a conservative lobbying group that fights climate change policies. Its latest departure? American Electric Power (AEP), one of the nation’s largest utilities. If that wasn’t bad enough for ALEC, AEP said in it’s announcement it will be shifting its focus to […]
Drive down just about any highway in the Midwest or Plains states and you’ll see seemingly endless fields of corn, beans and wheat. But in recent decades, a crop of a different sort has been sprouting up: wind turbines. Wind now generates a third of U.S. renewable electricity and the industry is growing faster than any other clean power […]
Uruguay has made some impressive strides in the last decade on the environmental front. The South American country of 3.4 million has drastically reduced its carbon footprint in less than 10 years “without government subsidies or higher consumer costs,” the country’s National Director of Energy Ramón Méndez told The Guardian. Uruguay Makes Dramatic Shift to Nearly […]
Speaking to students at the Sorbonne University in Paris, Elon Musk said we need a price on carbon similar to the one abolished in Australia to halve the time it will take to transition to renewable energy—a crucial step in addressing climate change. We have to “remove the effective subsidy of not pricing the damage done by carbon […]
Google is another step closer in their goal of powering 100 percent of their operations with clean energy. Today, the search giant announced “the largest, and most diverse, purchase of renewable energy ever made by a non-utility company.” The massive purchase adds an additional 842 megawatts of renewable energy capacity to power their data centers, […]
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