Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
22 June 2021
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Broadcast TV News
Under 3 Minutes
Although work-from-home was mostly a reaction in response to the pandemic, in Salt Lake City, Utah, the strategy has developed the potential to improve air quality. Most state employees are now required to telework ce...
11 May 2021
United Kingdom
Text
1500-3000 Words
There are several chemical recycling methods being tested throughout the world, including one of the latest ones in the United Kingdom. Mura Technology is building the world’s first commercial-scale plant that can rec...
22 April 2021
River Falls, Wisconsin, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The city of River Falls in Wisconsin built the state’s first city-owned solar garden, taking steps to reduce their use of fossil fuels and encourage community members to go green. Now, all city buildings are 100 perce...
22 April 2021
Cape Town, South Africa
Text
800-1500 Words
Watergate Estate is working on two issues in South Africa: affordable housing and renewable energy. The housing development is installing solar panels for its residents that are being bought by people all over the wor...
22 April 2021
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Text
1500-3000 Words
After lithium-ion batteries from iPhones, laptops, or electric cars are used up, the Ontario-based company LiCycle recycles parts of them to be reused in new batteries or in other products. While the recycling process...
20 April 2021
Hem, France
Text
800-1500 Words
Inspired by the Dutch concept of “Energiesprong,” or “energy jump,” a developer in France retrofitted a group of townhouses for social housing to be more environmentally friendly. They installed polyurethane facades t...
11 April 2021
Leyte, Philippines
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
Over 70 Catholic dioceses in the Philippines have entered into an agreement with energy resource company WeGen Laudato Si to install solar panels on their parishes, schools, and other buildings. The Diocese of Maasin ...
1 April 2021
Lindstrom, Minnesota, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
After talking about solar panels with his students, a teacher at a middle school in Minnesota worked with the school board to raise funds to install a rooftop solar panels for the entire district. All five of the scho...
30 March 2021
Paris, France
Text
1500-3000 Words
Paris Habitat, the city’s main social housing agency, used hempcrete — a concrete-like mixture of hemp, lime, and water — as insulation in one of its apartment complexes. This material helps maintain temperature and r...
26 March 2021
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Text
Under 800 Words
Evides Waterbedrijf, a drinking water company, created Europe’s largest floating solar park. They installed almost 3,000 solar panels on an island in the middle of a reservoir that allows it to move with the sun to ma...
23 March 2021
Winterthur, Switzerland
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
A warehouse in Switzerland is being transformed into new creative workspaces. The catch: It’s being constructed out of reused building materials. About 70 percent of it is being made from old materials like wood floor...
23 March 2021
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
City-supported housing projects must adhere to a stricter “Zero Net Carbon” standard in Boston in a bid to reduce carbon emissions. All new buildings that meet the green requirements also qualify for rebates and incen...
3 March 2021
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
An apartment complex in Utah includes a solar battery in every apartment allowing the resident, power utility, and building developer to save costs for generating electricity. Through a unique partnership, the power s...
26 February 2021
United States
Text
800-1500 Words
A tax credit was supposed to incentive Americans to buy electric vehicles, but testimony from car buyers and research has shown that only people who can afford the full purchase are getting access to the benefit. The ...
25 February 2021
San Diego, California, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
Aptera Motors, a California-based startup, is poised to roll out the first mass-produced solar vehicle this year: for $25,900. The car is a three-wheel, aerodynamic electric vehicle covered in solar cells that can pro...
23 February 2021
Bennington, Vermont, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
To make their restaurant more energy efficient and to cut its carbon footprint, The Publyk House utilized the services of Efficiency Vermont, a publicly funded energy efficiency utility. As part of their Deep Energy R...
Physics World
Michael Allen
23 February 2021
Urbana, Illinois, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
After the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, scientists are looking for ways to ensure the future of nuclear power is safer. One possibility is improving the protective barrier that surrounds the fuel pellets. They coat...
Energy News Network
Sarah Shemkus
18 February 2021
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Boston University is getting all of its electricity from a wind farm in South Dakota, which should cover its annual energy needs of 205 million kilowatt-hours. Some energy advocates say the higher education institutio...
8 February 2021
Norway
Text
800-1500 Words
After Norwegian pop band A-ha made headlines for using an electric vehicle in 1989, the government began implementing incentives for people to drive the cars. These perks made electric vehicles so popular in the Scand...
6 February 2021
Scotland
Text
800-1500 Words
Hywind Scotland is the world's first commercial wind farm using floating wind turbines to generate power for about 36,000 homes a year. This approach — which is being seriously looked at by several countries seeking t...
3 February 2021
Woburn, Massachusetts, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Boston Metal is transforming how steel is made by replacing coal with electrons. Instead of using the fossil fuel in furnaces to melt iron ores, the Massachusetts-based company uses electric currents to heat the ore, ...
21 January 2021
Florida, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
A pilot energy retrofit project in Florida has shown that these upgrades for homeowners ultimately saves them money and energy, and can be made accessible to people from all types of socioeconomic backgrounds. This pr...
19 January 2021
Israel
Text
800-1500 Words
Batteries that can be fully charged in five minutes have been created for the first time, allowing electric cars to recharge faster. The Israeli company StoreDot produced 1,000 of these new lithium-ion batteries, whic...
12 January 2021
Wahkiacus, Washington, United States
Broadcast TV News
Under 3 Minutes
Instead of burying or cremating a body after the person has died, some are turning their loved ones into compost. Washington recently became the first state to approve human remains composting, which environmentalists...
Forbes
Christine Ro
30 December 2020
United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Arizona State University’s SolarSPELL project developed a waterproof device with a solar panel and other equipment that allows users to connect to “offline WiFi” networks and browse preloaded webpages. SD cards store ...
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