Resilience Photo by Bry Ulrick on Unsplash Can Burning Man pull out of its climate death spiral? Excessive heat, ever fiercer storms, and a reliance on fossil fuels are becoming an existential crisis for the yearly festival in the Nevada desert.
Solutionscommons.wikimedia.org JFK Airport terminal gets a solar grid to cut emissions John F. Kennedy International Airport’s future terminal will add a rooftop array and integrated microgrid to help reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.
Good NewsGovernor Jay Inslee Off-gridders take energy needs into their own hands Natural disasters have spurred some communities and homeowners to generate their own electricity.
Politics Photo by Justin Campbell on Unsplash Army plans microgrids, electric vehicle fleet in first climate strategy The Army plans to install a microgrid on all of its installations by 2035 and have a fleet of all-electric vehicles by 2050, among other efforts outlined in a climate strategy released this week.
Newsletter North Carolina researchers eye alternative energy to power state ferries The North Carolina Ferry Division and university researchers are studying possible ways for alternative energy to power the state's 21 ferries.
Newsletter Photo by kiwi thompson on Unsplash Seth Blumsack: Long power outages after disasters aren't inevitable – but utilities need to think differently Building even more power poles and transmission lines won’t avert outages when major disasters strike.
Solutions www.wired.com Why not turn airports into giant solar farms? Airports have vast swaths of empty land and rooftops. But it’s not so easy as just covering everything with solar panels.
