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Top Ten Clean Energy Developments of 2018
2018 showed that clean energy is becoming more and more the norm. And we’re not just talking about Bradley Cooper standing in front of a field of wind turbines in the hit movie A Star is Born. In spite of the lack of action from the US federal government,…
Penny-Wise and Pound-Foolish: The Problem with the EPA’s Proposed Changes to Current Methane Regulations
Penny-wise and pound-foolish is a great phrase to describe the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) plan to ease rules put in place to reduce harmful methane emissions from the oil and gas industry. While potentially saving money in the short term, a rollback of these policies and regulations is shortsighted and…
Accelerating Sustainable Business Leadership
By Hans Reus When helping companies appoint senior leaders, my colleagues and I have noted an area in which most organizations can improve substantially. Sustainability qualifications aren’t given the importance they should have in the selection of senior business leaders, in comparison with digital expertise and…
Hot Property: How to Manage Valuable US Landscapes for Carbon Sequestration
Achieving the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement will almost inevitably require negative emissions from a combination of agriculture, land use, forestry, and other technologies that actively remove CO2 from the atmosphere. According to IPCC scenarios, 10–20 gigatons of negative emissions are required annually by 2100 to limit global…
Amory Lovins’s Extreme Energy Efficiency: Stanford Students Learn the Future of Design
“Learning that only 0.5 percent of the fuel consumed by a vehicle is used to move the driver completely shifted the way I view transportation,” wrote Lance Yupingkun, one of 39 Stanford University students (pictured above) who attended a weeklong Rocky Mountain Institute class on integrative design and…