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December 11, 2020

I Love Paris In The Winter

A district geothermal heat system keeps Paris warm in the winter without carbon pollution

Don't Inhale

December 10, 2020

Good Actuary News For Renewables

End time for fossil fuel power plants by 2035 + the era of clean energy as the new normal are realistic if you calculate like an actuary

December 09, 2020

Protecting NYC From Sea Level Rise: Take 2

Congress may soon pass a law to require the Army Corps of Engineers to rethink + fix flaws in its stalled plan to defend NYC from sea level rise + flooding

Weekly Climate Recap + Read

Climate news + books for you

Starting On January 20, 2021

NY Greens Its Pension Fund

NY Comptroller DiNapoli commits the state's $226.4 billion pension fund investments to carbon neutrality by 2040. Bill McKibben hails this as a 'huge win' for climate action

Moral Money 101

The International Capital Markets Association has developed Green Bond Principles, Social Bond Principles, Sustainability Bond Guidelines + Sustainability-Linked Bond Principles that establish a global framework for sustainable bond issuance

December 08, 2020

Congestion Query

Is Trump holding congestion pricing in NYC hostage? Does bear poop in the woods?

December 07, 2020

Environmental Health On The Biden Agenda

With the nomination of Xavier Becerra as head of the Health + Human Services Department, environmental health justice gets spotlighted for the Biden Administration

Expanding Decarbonizaion Options

What's the point of a geothermal microgrid? Two Massachusetts pilot projects will answer that question

Much-Disputed Gas Pipeline Nears Completion

A fracked-gas pipeline project is almost complete in North Brooklyn, but the final phase is delayed. Is local project opposition the cause?

NYC Comptroller Stringer: Biking By the Numbers

"The bicycling boom that began in June continued through October...During the month of October, bike volume on the four East River bridges in DOT’s count totaled 638,042, an increase of more than 173,000 from last year.
The number of bikes crossing the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge rose 50% to nearly 174,000 this October, as volume rose 40% on the Williamsburg Bridge and 36% on the Manhattan Bridge.
Volume was up by 7% on the Brooklyn Bridge in October, reversing year-over-year declines in the prior three months."

December 04, 2020

Holiday Season, Virus-Safe Musical Interlude

Bach + Paul Simon, as melded by The Knights of NYC