Tag: Energy Efficiency

Yale Climate Connections, October 11, 2019

This week’s articles include:

  1. An introduction to the state of wind power in the U.S.
  2. Wind turbines are the new normal in some rural Michigan counties
  3. Don Quilowatte spots a giant
  4. 12 major climate change reports from 2019
  5. Brief overview of new IPCC report on oceans and ice risks
  6. Texan Marine finds his calling in the wind industry
  7. Biologist Corina Newsome wants to protect a tiny bird from sea-level rise
  8. Jeremy Ornstein’s journey from fear to climate action
  9. Carbon offsets project funds local energy efficiency projects
  10. Nearly 2.5 million Americans held energy-efficiency jobs in 2018

Yale Climate Connections, week of 8-23/2019

This week’s stories include:

Yale Climate Connections – August 9, 2019

This Yale Climate Connections issue discusses:

  1. What you need to know about the link between sea-level rise and coastal flooding
  2. Some northern cities could be reborn as ‘climate havens’
  3. What a drier and hotter future means for the arid Southwest
  4. Naomi Booth on motherhood, anxiety and climate change
  5. Conservative nonprofit leader David Jenkins says climate change should be priority for the right
  6. Critics challenge insurance companies over contributions to climate change
  7. Energy efficiency can help nonprofits serve more people
  8. Cleaning up after a hurricane can be hazardous to your health
  9. How protecting a Pennsylvania stream makes the area more resilient

Yale Climate Connections July 5, 2019

This week’s stories include:

  1. ‘How is climate change affecting summer weather?’
  2. Wildfires and climate change: What’s the connection?
  3. Things you should know about the Arctic and Antarctica
  4. Redefining hope in a world threatened by climate change
  5. How Burnsville, Minnesota, cut its carbon emissions nearly 30 percent
  6. New ‘smart energy’ district is a testing ground for clean energy
  7. Energy efficiency can be a tool for economic development
  8. In New Hampshire’s rugged North Country, many rural residents struggle to afford utilities
  9. New York Botanical Garden cuts pollution from its vehicles

Yale Climate Connections 6-7-2019

This issuance discusses:

  1. Rising demand for air conditioning could make climate change even worse
  2. ‘Which vacation spots could be permanently damaged by global warming?’
  3. Where to find big ideas for addressing climate change
  4. Climate change deniers of the recent past live in ‘The Gulf’
  5. How New Orleans’ 7th Ward is fighting back against flooding
  6. The Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures could help create a new, low-carbon economy
  7. A career in energy efficiency could be one man’s path to financial security
  8. Some places in a city are dramatically hotter than others. Why?
  9. ‘Bill clinics’ help Illinois residents save money and electricity

Yale Climate Connections articles

This week’s email from the Yale Climate Connections discusses:

carbon offsets; communicating about climate change; Canada’s climate change position; flooding and droughts in communities; impact on flowering plants in New England from an earlier Spring; self driving cars and their potential air pollution impact; UN negotiators try role playing; and impact of energy efficiency in Wisconsin.

Yale Climate Connections – Week of 5-3-2019

This week’s email discusses:

  1. Climate change could cost the U.S. economy hundreds of billions a year by 2090
  2. How vanishing lizards in Madagascar led to a troubling discovery about deforestation and climate change
  3. More farmers worry about the impact of climate change on agriculture
  4. Skara Brae, an ancient village made of stone, could be lost to climate change
  5. Torrential rains plague Pennsylvania farms
  6. Energy efficiency could help the world meet Paris agreement goals
  7. How artificial intelligence could help scientists track climate impacts

Energy efficiency is crucial to fighting climate change

This article discusses why Energy efficiency is crucial to fighting climate change.

Switching your lightbulbs to energy-efficient LED’s does not just lower your electric bills. It also reduces carbon pollution and global warming.

Ralph Cavanagh of the Natural Resources Defense Council says LED’s are one of many recent innovations in energy efficiency. When used by homeowners, businesses, and utilities, the benefits quickly add up.

Cavanagh: “When I started my work in the seventies, everyone assumed that in order for economic growth to occur, energy use had to grow just as fast or faster. And on that logic, a healthy and growing economy meant an inexhaustible appetite for giant new polluting power plants. Coal and nuclear were the typical orders of that time. What’s happened since is an energy efficiency revolution that has completely broken the linkage between energy use and economic health. Since the mid-nineteen-seventies, the U.S. economy has more than tripled in size, but total energy use is up less than thirty percent.”