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Who gets to decide whether we study solar geoengineering?

Grist

It’s a technology so controversial that even the prospect of researching it can provoke anxiety — and backlash. The SCoPEx plans for Kiruna constitute a real moral hazard,” they wrote, adding that the technology “entails risks of catastrophic consequences.” You need to see it as part of developing this really dangerous technology.

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Director of Energy Storage, Procurement

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

As a technology-agnostic provider of turnkey energy storage systems, Borrego must constantly evaluate energy storage products in order to identify the right solution for our customer applications. Evaluate different battery technologies in terms of performance attributes that are most meaningful for customer applications. EEO M/F/D/V.

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Inside the University of Chicago’s controversial solar geoengineering initiative

Grist

In 2006, a group of preeminent scientists met for a two-day conference at the NASA Ames Research Center in California to discuss cooling the Earth by injecting particles into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight into space. At some point, one of the conference rooms became overheated. degree Celsius (0.9 degree Fahrenheit) for about a year.

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New York Sustainability: Tax Credits, Grants and Green Funding

Green Business Bureau

The IESE Cities in Motion Index used 10 key dimensions to rank cities as sustainable, which include governance, public management, urban planning, technology , the environment, international outreach, social cohesion, human capital, and the economy. New York sustainability exemplifies what it means to be a sustainable city.

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'We want to make the bus cool': Inside Arrival, the $13bn British electric vehicle start-up

Business Green

It is a jaw-dropping achievement for a company that is yet to deliver any of the thousands of vehicles on its order books, and an important milestone in the electric vehicle (EV) sector's transition from fringe market into market-shaping mainstream concern. We want to make the bus cool," he says. "We

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2023: A Strange, Tumultuous Year in Sustainability

Andrew Winston

Most famously, the governor of Florida kept battling one of the world’s most beloved brands, Disney, over the company’s position on state laws targeting the LGBTQ+ community. Some in the investment community even pushed back on anti-ESG laws — partly because, as one analysis concluded, those state laws could cost taxpayers $708 million.

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'We want to make the bus cool': Inside Arrival, the $13bn British electric vehicle start-up

Business Green

It is a jaw-dropping achievement for a company that is yet to deliver any of the thousands of vehicles on its order books, and an important milestone in the electric vehicle (EV) sector's transition from fringe market into market-shaping mainstream concern. We want to make the bus cool," he says. "We