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    100% Renewable Energy-Powered Music Festival Announced by Massive Attack

    100% Renewable Energy-Powered Music Festival Announced by Massive Attack

    The Bristol, England-based music collective Massive Attack has announced a one-day music festival for Bristol. What makes this festival stand out from others is that it will be powered entirely by renewables: solar energy and battery power. The festival, called Act 1.5, will take place on August 25, 2024 in Clifton Down and will be […]

    What’s at Stake at COP28

    What’s at Stake at COP28

    The next United Nations Climate Change Conference, otherwise known as COP28, begins Thursday in the United Arab Emirates.  The conference, which lasts through December 12, comes at a critical moment in global efforts to contain the climate crisis. The latest UN Emissions Gap Report, released ahead of the talks, found that nations’ current emissions reduction […]

    Newly Launched Satellite Detects Emissions From Industrial Facilities

    Newly Launched Satellite Detects Emissions From Industrial Facilities

    GHGSat, a global emissions-monitoring company based in Montreal, has launched a satellite that will detect emissions from industrial facilities. The satellite can capture the facilities, such as power plants, in high resolution to more accurately track and attribute emissions. The satellite, known as GHGSat C10 or Vanguard, launched on Nov. 10 from the Vandenberg Space […]

    Direct Air Capture: A Solution, or More of a Problem?

    Direct Air Capture: A Solution, or More of a Problem?

    The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced $1.2-billion to finance two direct air capture projects to be built in Texas and Louisiana. These two sites, when fully operational, aim to pull about two million metric tons of carbon dioxide from the air, or the equivalent of the annual emissions of 70 airplanes, 450,000 gas […]

    Car Culture: Everything You Need to Know

    Car Culture: Everything You Need to Know

    Quick Key Facts What Is ‘Car Culture’? When you Google, “America’s love affair with…” the first word the algorithm fills in is “the automobile.” The third is “cars.” (The second is, surprise, surprise, guns.) In the U.S. — and increasingly in other parts of the world too — cars and driving have a significant impact […]

    Major Polluters U.S. and China Not Invited to Speak at UN Climate Ambition Summit

    Major Polluters U.S. and China Not Invited to Speak at UN Climate Ambition Summit

    The United Nations Climate Ambition Summit in New York today brings together what UN Secretary-General António Guterres called the “first movers and doers” of the climate crisis with the goal of speeding up action on climate change by governments, local authorities, business and finance leaders and civil society ahead of November’s COP28 Climate Change Conference. […]