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  • How 3,000 streetlights turned San Diego into America's smartest city

    A municipality’s ability to collect data and implement small changes can mean cost savings, increased efficiency, and improvements to daily life. By incorporating the ‘internet of things’ into thousands of streetlights, San Diego is able to collect and disseminate data on street usage, parking spots, and traffic optimization.

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  • The West Coast Electric Highway Enables Zero Emission Road Trips

    Although electrical cars are not of the majority in the United States, their popularity is steadily increasing. Stretching from Baja California to British Columbia, the West Coast Electrical Highway is providing electric vehicle drivers a means to greater access to charging stations while consequently helping to cut down on greenhouse gas emissions.

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  • Conserve Energy on Summer's Hottest Days With a Text

    Shave The Peak is an online tool that helps people cut their emissions use by informing them of peak energy times during the hottest days in the summer. The tool started as a mass email and a text sent out to 100 environmentally concerned citizens before expanding. “For now, we have to educate and involve citizen advocates using short-term projects so we can eventually create long-term change.”

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  • Now Even Apartment Dwellers Can Use Solar Power

    New York opens up solar energy options to apartment owners who may not be able to install solar panels through community solar groups. These groups give apartment owners access to augmenting their energy supply with renewable energy gleaned from other parts of the city—with savings for the apartment dweller and a profit for the solar collector.

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  • California slashes emissions, hits major greenhouse gas goal years early

    Due in large part to the expanded use of renewable energy and decreased use of natural gas, California was able to cut greenhouse gas emissions significantly and ahead of their scheduled goal.

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  • Undercooked: An Expensive Push to Save Lives and Protect the Planet Falls Short

    An international effort to supply developing countries with low-pollution cookstoves fell short. Efforts failed to consider to what degree their new stoves really solved the problem—and whether or not people would actually use them.

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  • Surf And Turf: To Reduce Gas Emissions From Cows, Scientists Look To The Ocean

    A new research experiment at University of California, Davis is seeing immediate results in the reduction of methane produced from cows by changing the cow's diet to incorporate seaweed. This successful effort could prove to be a major component in the state's plan to reduce methane emissions by 40 percent in the next 12 years.

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  • These Chennai temples are showing the way to more eco-friendly ways of worship

    In Indian temples, NGOs and priests are partnering to reduce floral waste. Many tons of flowers are diverted from landfills and rivers, using methods like composting and reprocessing--and the idea appears to be catching on.

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  • Solar Libre: Family Affair

    Hurricane Maria left many properties and people in Puerto Rico completely devastated. One family decided to do what they could to begin the reconstruction process on their own by forming Solar Libre Puerto Rico - a volunteer organizing that brings emergency solar to the region.

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  • Britain built an empire out of coal. Now it's giving it up. Why can't the US?

    Despite being the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, the UK passed the Climate Change Act in 2008, a move that reduced coal-fired electricity generation by 33 percent in only five years. The UK's carbon tax helped spur the phasing out of coal, but the political and economic conditions that enabled it are by no means universal.

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