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Solar PV for parking lots: not exciting, but slowly it makes a difference.

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How Policy Is Like the Tide
Policy might seem slow and boring, but sometimes it's the most effective action. Solar PV for parking lots is a good example.
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May 3, 2026 at 1:29 PM
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Climate change moves slowly, kind of like watching glaciers melt.

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Slow Apocalypse
Why is humanity moving so slowly to respond to climate change?
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March 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Open revolution soonish would be nice; we'll see plenty of that when the #AMOC finishes collapsing! #ClimateFight #CliFi
April 17, 2026 at 4:50 PM
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Right now, #trees are the best #carbon #sequestration devices we have. But the uptake isn't instant: they need time to work.

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Trees
Trees are beautiful and maybe wise.
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May 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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What gives us hope? People who will save the world.

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Teach your children well
If we have hope, it will be realized from the impact of coming generations.
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August 22, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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When you want to compare internal combustion cars to electrics, the engineer's "efficiency" view offers remarkable insights.

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Efficiency - A Little Bit Goes a Long Way
Like comedian Rodney Dangerfield, energy efficiency "don't get no respect," but it deserves more policy attention and more widespread application.
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January 29, 2026 at 5:23 AM
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We must lower the carbon footprint of #concrete. We examine one of several approaches.

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One New Way of Making Low-carbon Cement
Even cement production can be electrified, for a 90% reduction in GHGs
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September 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Consumer demand for #green industries is so strong that sustainability is emerging as a baseline expectation. In many situations, it's a competitive edge for bidders. And #clean industries boost growth.

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Clean and green: the new normal
The energy arc of the world swings towards clean.
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March 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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All is not lost! 🥳

Despite #Trump withdrawing the #USA from the major climate treaty - the Paris agreement - several US Governors have announced the continuation of the #climatefight as they aim to meet the agreements’s goals.

This is great #news for the #climate!

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February 10, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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How delightful that a Swiss corporation has built a gravity storage device reminiscent of a giant cuckoo clock. Minus the cuckoo.

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Gravity Energy Storage
Using the whole planet to store energy!
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August 15, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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We have the technical tools and policy frameworks to find and address small methane leaks in the oil and gas industry. #climate #climatechange #satellites #drones #greenhousegas #climatefight #methane
Methane leaks: It's the little ones that'll get us in the end
Although big methane leaks get a lot of attention, smaller leaks have to be addressed too. Surprisingly, they are most of the problem.
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February 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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We can lower airline emissions by improving the drag performance of airplanes.

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Flying: It's a Drag
We’re stuck with airliners powered by fossil fuels for now, but we can significantly cut emissions with innovations that reduce aerodynamic drag.
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June 10, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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In all the energy we use planet-wide, how much is renewable?

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How much renewable energy do we use?
Probably less than you think.
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February 4, 2026 at 1:01 AM
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December 21, 2024 at 7:01 PM
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How do you guard precious water from evaporation as it moves along canals in arid regions?

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Covering Canals with Solar PV
A pilot project to reduce evaporation and generate renewable electricity by covering irrigation canals with solar PV has completed its first phase.
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June 6, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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March 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Solar power continues its momentum. At some point, it will be unstoppable.

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Solar Takes Over
Fossil fuels are so last decade
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July 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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A "sand battery" can deliver the heat of 50 home furnaces by storing energy from off-peak surplus.

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Sand Batteries
A company in Finland has brought on line a high-temperature heat storage installation, using crushed local soapstone, to store off-peak and renewable energy for use during peak demand periods
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July 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Extensive study of #emissions across geographies and #vehicle types. #EVs are the low-carbon champions.

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EVs Deliver Lowest Lifecycle Carbon Footprint Everywhere
Cradle-to-grave GHG emissions of light duty electric vehicles are lower than all forms of their internal combustion-engined equivalents, no matter the region
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October 3, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Here's one LA fire that didn't get out of control. Part of a series on Hope in #climate news. #wildfires #climatechange #globalwarming #LosAngeles #climatefight #greenhousegas

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Sunset
Sometime the best news of the day is what you don't hear.
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February 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Travelling by train? Read this short look at the nuances of railroad-passenger travel emissions. Not all trains are the same.

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Climate Train
When traveling what is the "best" climate change choice?
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June 11, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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#Klimakampf & #Antifa
#Klimarevolution!
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December 20, 2023 at 3:23 PM
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If a sports team made climate a priority? It'd look something like this.

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Climate for the win!
The Vermont Greens FC won their 2025 national championship. Why it matters for climate change.
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September 3, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Solar distillation is an old technology that makes pure water using just sunshine, but recent innovations will make it work even better.

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Improvements, Still
A new 3D printable substrate improves solar distillation by an order.
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July 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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The newly-launched Sentinel-5A extends our atmospheric measurement to aid in the #ClimateCrisis .

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Sentinel 5 ... Away!
The new spectroscopic instrument Sentinel-5A launched on August 12, 2025. It's ready to help us understand what's going on in our atmosphere.
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August 29, 2025 at 2:49 PM