Happiness & Success
Achieving Happiness Through Acceptance of Life
The quest for happiness often leads to frustration, as many fail to realize that the...
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- Written by: InnerSelf Staff
As the country pushes ahead with renewable energy goals, the challenges facing the grid are substantial, but not insurmountable, according to energy experts.
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- Written by: Julie Cohen, University of California, Santa Barbara
Each kilo (about 2 pounds, 3 ounces) of homegrown veggies can cut greenhouse gas emissions by two kilograms, research shows.
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- Written by: Catherine Hausman, University of Michigan
The Aliso Canyon leak in California earlier this year focused public attention on methane emissions from the oil and gas industry.
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- Written by: Eric Williams, Rochester Institute of Technology
Six years ago, Phoenix lay burning in the sun one day. It was 110 degrees Fahrenheit and I was the only person foolish enough to be out walking instead of moving by air-conditioned car. Arriving hot and parched at a bookstore, I opened the doors to be greeted by a blast of arctic air.
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Power companies that take initiative now can position themselves for a bright future in tomorrow’s clean energy economy
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- Written by: Jason Hickel, London School of Economics and Political Science
What is so refreshing about the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals is that they recognise the inherent tension between economic development and the ecology of our planet.
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- Written by: Peter Bradford, Vermont Law School
Since the 1950s, U.S. nuclear power has been buoyed by taxpayer subsidies and promises of economic and environmental benefits. However, many of these claims remain unfulfilled, and the industry faces challenges from competitive energy markets and cheaper alternatives. The future of nuclear energy may hinge on new subsidies and policies to remain viable.
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- Written by: Jessika E. Trancik, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Electrifying transportation is one of the most promising ways to significantly cut greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles, but so-called range anxiety – concern about being stranded with an uncharged car battery – remains a barrier to electric vehicle adoption.
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- Written by: David K. Hecht, Bowdoin College
In June, California utility Pacific Gas and Electric announced plans for phasing out its Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant, located on the central California coast.
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- Written by: InnerSelf Staff
Currently planned gas production expansion in Appalachia would make meeting U.S. climate goals impossible
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- Written by: Eric Daniel Fournier, University of California, Los Angeles and Alex Ricklefs, University of California, Los Angeles
Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) recently started the process of shutting down the Diablo Canyon generation facility, the last active nuclear power plant in California.
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- Written by: Sally Neas, YES! Magazine
Scientists believe that simple land management techniques can increase the rate at which carbon is absorbed from the atmosphere and stored in soils.
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- Written by: Philip Lloyd, Cape Peninsula University of Technology
The problem the world faces is that many of the resources that are truly threatened are the renewable ones, not, as so often assumed, the non-renewables.
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- Written by: Peter Fairley, Ensia
Political hurdles and low prices have made carbon pricing a low-impact affair. But there’s still hope it can help limit climate change. Earth’s atmosphere has long served as a free dump for carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases generated by humans.
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- Written by: Daniel Stolte, University of Arizona
Forests take up 25 to 30 percent of human-caused emissions of carbon dioxide—a strong greenhouse gas—and therefore are considered to play a crucial role in mitigating the speed and magnitude of climate change.
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- Written by: Mark Diesendorf, UNSW Australia
Global climate change, driven by human emissions of greenhouse gases, is already affecting the planet, with more heatwaves, droughts, wildfires and floods, and accelerating sea-level rise.
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- Written by: InnerSelf Staff
Even though Iowa is typically associated with red state politics, everyone there seems to agree that wind power makes economic sense for one of the windiest states in the country.
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- Written by: Neil Ormerod, Australian Catholic University
This week’s decision by four Australian Catholic orders to divest fully from fossil fuels can be interpreted as a direct response to the encyclical on the environment, issued by Pope Francis almost exactly a year ago.
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- Written by: Nancy Averett, Boston University
The solar panels of about 40,000 Massachusetts households and community groups cut electricity prices for all of the approximately three million electricity ratepayers in the state, even those without the panels, also called photovoltaics (PV) systems.
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- Written by: Joe Romm, ThinkProgress
Battery costs are plummeting to levels that make EVs a truly disruptive technology, as we’ve explained. That’s why electric vehicle (EV) sales are exploding world-wide, and why Tesla broke every record for pre-sales with its affordable ($35,000), 200+ mile range Model 3 last month.
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- Written by: Steven Gorelick, Local Futures
Among climate change activists, solutions usually center on a transition to renewable energy. There may be differences over whether this would be best accomplished by a carbon tax, bigger subsidies for wind and solar power, divestment from fossil fuel companies
