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  • Can incinerators solve Vietnam's waste crisis?

    October 22, 2024 |

    Dialogue Earth |

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    Response Location: Vietnam

    Vietnam is building waste-to-energy plants, which burn household waste and generate energy during the process, to remedy its over-full landfills and eventually provide some relief from related air and groundwater pollution.

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  • Renewables Are Expanding on Indigenous Lands, Co-Ownership Offers a Solution

    October 21, 2024 |

    Triple Pundit |

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    Response Location: Arhauco, Colombia

    Energy developers and Indigenous communities are coming together to share ownership of renewable energy projects to promote equity and inclusion within the projects directly impacting Indigenous land. Co-ownership is on the rise globally and offers benefits like insights from Indigenous knowledge of the land and less risk of the project being canceled or protested in court.

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  • Hurricane Helene underscores need for more solar-battery microgrids

    October 18, 2024 |

    Canary Media |

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    Response Location: United States, Hot Springs, North Carolina

    A small community in the mountains of North Carolina, Hot Springs, relied on a solar-powered microgrid with battery storage when the substation that supplied its power washed away in the flooding after Hurricane Helene. Microgrids like that could be a critical part of building extreme weather resilience elsewhere, too.

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  • Volunteers bring solar power to Hurricane Helene's disaster zone

    October 13, 2024 |

    Associated Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Bakersville, North Carolina

    The nonprofit Footprint Project is helping communities in North Carolina restore electricity after Hurricane Helene by delivering and installing solar equipment donated by companies or purchased with donated funds.

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  • Solar milking tech boosts dairy farms in Malawi

    October 10, 2024 |

    SciDev.Net |

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    Response Location: Malawi

    Following a successful pilot, Malawi’s National Commission for Science and Technology is now expanding use of solar-powered milking devices and water pumping systems, which have improved milk quality and significantly reduced time spent fetching water.

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  • Why don't we use more geothermal energy?

    October 07, 2024 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Germany

    Germany-based Vulcan Energy combines lithium extraction with geothermal energy production to make geothermal more financially feasible. It pulls the lithium directly from the hot water that's used to generate power and heat for local communities and sells it to be used for electric car batteries.

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  • How to build an AC that will get the world through hotter summers

    October 05, 2024 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: India, Thane

    Innovators are developing new air conditioning units to keep people cool as temperatures and humidity rise without contributing to greenhouse gas emissions. Alongside improved energy efficiency, the new tech focuses on sensing and reducing humidity in real-time and adjusting itself as humidity fluctuates throughout the day.

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  • This Native-Led Group Is Bringing Solar Power to Tribal Lands

    September 30, 2024 |

    Atmos |

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    Response Location: Hopi Reservation, United States

    Native Renewables, a Native- and women-led nonprofit, is bringing free, off-grid solar energy systems to homes in the Navajo and Hopi reservations that don’t have access to power. And it’s doing so by training local Indigenous peoples to work in the industry so they can reap the economic benefits of these careers instead of hiring out the work.

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  • All Aboard the Electric School Bus!

    September 16, 2024 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States

    The United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean School Bus Program is funding zero-emission, electric school buses and low-emission buses for schools looking to make the switch from diesel.

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  • Why electric restaurants could be the key ingredient for cities trying to ditch fossil fuels

    September 13, 2024 |

    Colorado Public Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    Whether encouraged by government incentives and regulations, environmental impacts, or business benefits, restaurants are switching to electric cooking appliances like induction cooktops instead of gas-powered options.

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