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Climate Change
Pollution
Solutions
Renewable Energy
Solid Waste
Public Opinion
Transportation
Climate Change
  • Video:  BlackRock CEO warns of increasing climate risk to investors (Yale Climate Connections)
  • After California wildfires, insurance companies drop some homeowner policies (Yale Climate Connections)
  • Residents of Midlothian, Illinois fight back against 'terrifying' floods (Yale Climate Connections)
  • How climate change is fueling the U.S. border crisis (The New Yorker)
  • Climate tipping points -- too risky to bet against (Nature)
  • Warming waters, disease threaten Georgia shrimp (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  • How a warmer Arctic could intensify extreme weather (Vox)
  • Octopus in the parking garage is climate change's canary in the coal mine (Miami Herald)
  • Many farmers feel unprepared for increasingly extreme weather (Yale Climate Connections)
  • We're living through Earth's second-hottest year, NOAA finds (Washington Post)
  • Heat waves and floods shattered records. Fires ravaged the Artic and the Amazon. This was the climate crisis in 2019. (Business Insider)
  • 5 global trends shaping our climate future (The New York Times)
  • Flood-hit Venice to face another exceptional high tide on Sunday (Reuters)
  • Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe talks environmental education (Stanford Daily)
  • Climate change: how do we know? (NASA)
Pollution
  • Climate change threatens 945 US toxic waste sites with flood and fire (Quartz)
  • Everywhere we looked': trillions of microplastics found in San Francisco Bay (The Guardian)
  • Microplastics hit home: Tennessee River among the most plastic polluted in the world. (Know News)
Solutions
  • Avoiding idling saves fuel and reduces pollution (Yale Climate Connections)
  • Need an idea for a climate-friendly gift?  We have 79. (Grist)
  • Your questions about food and climate change answered (The New York Times)
  • How heat pumps can cut carbon pollution from buildings (Yale Climate Connections)
  • Ways to avoid food waste over Thanksgiving (GreenBlue)
  • What does the Paris climate agreement require of countries? (EarthBeat)
  • 101 ways to live sustainably (Curbed.com)
  • Four ways to reduce your business's carbon footprint (Business.com)
  • An assessment of the Energy Innovation & Carbon Dividend Act (Citizens' Climate Lobby)
  • What small businesses can do about climate change (Yale Climate Connections)
  • Essay: A student deals with hope and fear over climate change (Yale Climate Connections)

Renewable Energy
  • Portland now generates electricity from turbines installed in city water pipes (Positve Outlooks Blog)
  • New invention generates electricity "out of thin air" -- offers clean energy 24/7 (SciTech Daily)
  • Global Energy Perspective 2019 (McKinsey & Company)
  • Yes, fossil fuel subsidies are real, destructive and protected by lobbying (Forbes)
  • An introduction to the state of energy storage in the U.S. (Yale Climate Connections)
  • Two Midwest utility execs explain why they're betting on renewables (Yale Climate Connections)
  • Renewables on the rise: A decade of progress toward a clean energy future (Environment Georgia)
  • Solar costs & wind costs so low they're cheaper than *existing* coal and nuclear (CleanTechnica)
  • Religious congregations see the light with solar energy (Aleteia)
  • A conservative solution to rising electricity bills (Moultrie Observer)
  • Nashville’s Silicon Ranch to build 107 MW solar plant to power Facebook data center in Georgia (Atlanta Business Chronicle)
  • No wind? No sun? This power plant solves renewable energy's biggest problem. (CNN Business)
  • Wind and solar power have become amazingly affordable (Bloomberg)
  • Why solar is seeing a boost during California's wildfires (San Diego Union-Tribune)
  • Fukushima to be reborn as $2.7B wind and solar power hub (Nikkei Asian Review)
Solid Waste
  • An old-school plan to fight plastic waste pollution gathers steam (National Geographic)
  • The Great Recycling Con (New York Times)
  • Plastics: what's recyclable, what becomes trash - and why (NPR)
  • Loss of Chinese export market drives new ideas for repurposing recyclables (PBS Newshour)
  • The world's recycling is in crisis. Here's what has to change. (Wired)
  • The recycling crisis (The Week)
  • Why you don't see recycling bins at Dollywood (Dollywood Blog)
Public Opinion
  • Poll: Georgia voters support climate action (Yale Program on Climate Change Communication)
  • How do we convince climate change deniers? That's the wrong question. (Resilience)
  • To survive climate change, we'll need a better story (CityLab)
  • At Georgia conference: Grappling with how to talk about climate change (WABE)
Transportation
  • Electric vehicles:  Solid-state batteries could be game-changing (Yale Climate Connections)
  • Economist: Electric vehicles likely to be as cheap as conventional cars by 2025 (Yale Climate Connections)
  • EV Charging Stations: Where to find them, what type you need, how to pay (Car and Driver)
  • Electric cars racing at 170MPH are test labs for SUVs (Bloomberg)
  • Electric vehicle efforts get into high gear with big news from Tesla, Volkswagen, China's BYD (Forbe's)
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