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  • AC Has a Big Climate Impact. This New Tech Could be a Game Changer

    Sarah Sax Andrew D. Johnson

    April 16, 2024 |

    Time Magazine |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Beverly Hills, California

    Thermal storage technologies are lowering businesses’ energy costs and carbon emissions while reducing strain on the grid during peak times. Two hotels in California implemented a system that makes ice when energy demand is low and uses the ice during peak demand times to cool the building.

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  • Green Fuels Are Accelerating Shipping Decarbonization

    Sarah Sax

    March 27, 2024 |

    Time Magazine |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States

    Companies in the shipping industry are using green hydrogen as “low-carbon” fuel to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions. It’s created by using renewable energy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen, then mixing the hydrogen with green methanol or ammonia.

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  • How Electric Bikes Can Cut Delivery Emissions in Cities

    Sarah Sax Lisa Nho

    February 29, 2024 |

    Time Magazine |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Germany

    The mail and package delivery company Deutsche Post uses electric bikes, trikes, cargo bikes, and delivery vans to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions related to last-mile deliveries.

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  • A shellfish company gets into the weeds

    Sarah Sax

    December 28, 2021 |

    High Country News |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Washington

    In their fight to protect eelgrass, The Swinomish Indian Tribal Community sued the Army Corps and the National Marine Fisheries Service. The Swinomish Tribe argued that creating wide exemptions to shellfish farming could endanger eelgrass, which they rely on. Their win led to stricter regulations that require individual permits rather than national permits. The tribe also opened its own shellfish operation.

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  • Amazon ‘women warriors' show gender equality, forest conservation go hand in hand

    Rosamaria Loures Sarah Sax

    August 21, 2020 |

    Mongabay |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Brazil, Maranhão

    Women “warriors” of the indigenous Guajajara people in Brazil use drones to patrol their territory of the Amazon rainforest in an effort to prevent deforestation. Because of their work, they have been able to cut deforestation down to just 63 hectares in 2018 compared with 2,000 hectares in 2016. While the work can be dangerous and difficult at times, the women are committed to protecting the forests as a way to combat climate change. “If we don’t act, there would be no forest standing,” says one of the women warriors.

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