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Top 10 Economic Benefits of Converting to Solar Energy

Sunrun

Going solar can affect the climate, the economy and our own pocket books. The costs associated with climate change are growing and include rising health care costs, destruction of property, increased food prices and more. 14 Solar Saves on Gas and Fuel 9. Unlike fossil fuels, sunlight is never going away.

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Fenceline Community Groups in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Celebrate Mounting Victories

DeSmogBlog

It also walked back restrictive rules on its books related to marches. James plans to keep pursuing environmental justice in the courts if regulators continue to put the needs of the fossil fuel industry above the needs of fenceline communities in Cancer Alley. Now citizens and groups like RISE St. John and the Sierra Club.

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Let's pass a Green Recovery Act

Business Green

Covid-19 has been a terrible blow to public health, and the economy, but the emergency of climate damage is worse. Wind and solar are now cheaper than all fossil fuels. The total cost of ownership for electric vehicles has been lower than fossil fuel vehicles since 2015. That makes no sense.

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Logging is destroying southern forests — and dividing US environmentalists

Grist

Wood energy succored Homo sapiens and its ancestors for millions of years, the argument goes, and only during the last couple of centuries was it replaced with fossil fuels like coal. If we’re stewards of the Earth,” he once told a reporter , referring to the Book of Genesis, “we’re supposed to be doing something about this.”.

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How the recycling symbol lost its meaning

Grist

It’s very, very, very bad,” she says in ABC’s prime-time Earth Day special , letting out heavy sighs and listing jumbled statistics about deforestation and the hole in the ozone layer. Elmore recounts in the book Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism. “It’s crazy what we’re doing. he says, holding up a soda can. “I

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What is carbon insetting?

Mr. Sustainability

How can we achieve global climate goals while carrying billions of tons of cargo each year on equipment powered largely by fossil fuels? An example with sustainable fuel by GoodShipping. GoodShipping substitutes fossil fuels with truly sustainable alternatives, recognized by the ISCC. To some, this feels wrong.

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What is carbon insetting?

Mr. Sustainability

How can we achieve global climate goals while carrying billions of tons of cargo each year on equipment powered largely by fossil fuels? An example with sustainable fuel by GoodShipping. GoodShipping substitutes fossil fuels with truly sustainable alternatives, recognized by the ISCC. To some, this feels wrong.

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