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  • Why Europe is dismantling its dams

    Lucrezia Lozza

    March 05, 2024 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Finland

    Researchers and conservationists in European countries like Finland are buying obsolete dams and dismantling them to allow river ecosystems to recover and fish to travel freely.

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  • Getting off fossil fuels is hard, but this city is doing it — building by building

    Jeff Brady

    March 04, 2024 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, Ithaca, New York

    The town of Ithaca is working with its local gas utility and area homeowners to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by removing gas pipes from homes and businesses by switching them over to electricity, primarily from renewable sources. While the transition is a long process, the town expects to achieve about a 30% reduction in emissions in the next year.

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  • Minnesota schools testing electric buses find benefits and barriers

    Dan Gunderson

    January 30, 2024 |

    MPR News |

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    Response Location: United States, Morris, Minnesota

    After adding electric school buses to its fleet with the help of grant funding, Morris Area Schools saw its fuel costs drop from about $3 per gallon to the equivalent of about $1 a gallon. Each bus is estimated to help cut roughly 140 tons of carbon emissions over its lifetime.

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  • Tidal power: What's holding it back?

    Graihagh Jackson Jordan Dunbar Malene Jensen

    January 14, 2024 |

    BBC |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: South Korea

    Researchers in South Korea and Ireland are harnessing the power from the up, down, and side-to-side motions of ocean tides as a source of renewable energy.

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  • In Juneau, Alaska, a carbon offset project that's actually working

    Taylor Kate Brown

    January 04, 2024 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: United States, Juneau, Alaska

    To mitigate the carbon dioxide emissions generated by tourism, the community in Juneau, Alaska, created the Alaska Carbon Reduction Fund as a type of carbon offset program. Tourists pay an emissions fee to the fund when doing certain excursions, and that money is used to install heat pumps for residents who earn less than 80 percent of the median income.

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  • The New Mexico co-op breaking up with fossil fuels

    Mary Catherine O'Connor

    January 01, 2024 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, New Mexico

    After years of community outreach and searching for alternate energy suppliers that didn’t rely on fossil fuels, the Kit Carson Electric Cooperative now distributes electricity from renewable energy to households and businesses in rural New Mexico.

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  • Las energías renovables compartidas que dinamizan el entorno rural

    Gema L. Albendea

    December 18, 2023 |

    Revista Haz |

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    Response Location: Spain, Castile and León

    En 2018 nació la primera comunidad energética rural de España. La iniciativa ahora se está expandiendo a otros municipios que no solo busca el ahorro de costes energéticos, sino también revitalizar los pueblos y luchar contra la despoblación.

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  • Scientists turn pee into power in Uganda

    Jenny Morber

    October 10, 2023 |

    Upworthy Science |

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    Response Location: Uganda, Kisoro

    Labs and researchers have discovered that urine can be used as a renewable energy resource by using microbial fuel cells to generate electricity. It’s a cheap, abundant resource and the nutrients in the urine can also be used to fertilize gardens and save on water. One lab has produced 1,760 fuel cells so far, some of which have been placed in local schools.

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  • Colorado Shows Impact, Challenges of Billions in Federal Clean Energy Spending

    Jennifer Oldham

    September 13, 2023 |

    Capital & Main |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    Federal tax credits from the Inflation Reduction Act and added incentives from the state of Colorado and its municipalities is drawing in clean energy companies, creating new jobs, and helping the state meet its decarbonization goals.

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  • One congregation's path to carbon neutral offers case study as diocese, denomination work toward 2030 goal

    Lynette Wilson

    August 04, 2023 |

    Episcopal News Service |

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    Response Location: United States, Davis, California

    St. Martin’s Episcopal Church went carbon neutral. After installing an eclectic heat pump system, the California-based parish regained momentum on a years-long renewable energy path, updated all its appliances to eclectic, and installed another solar array.

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