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News & Updates

April 20, 2021 Earth Day 2021: 18 Ways to Save the Planet

Source: Williamson Source

As Earth Day 2021 approaches, you may find yourself wondering about its genesis, what exactly it means, or how you can participate. How did one day proposed by one man blossom into a week-long, global event? While there isn’t...

April 20, 2021 EARTH DAY - After a critical year for COVID and climate, Earth Day 2021 is Thursday. Here's what you should know.

Source: USA Today

And in a year in which a deadly pandemic has had the globe in its grip and climate change helped spark a cascade of calamities from raging wildfires to a ferocious hurricane season, the focus of this year's Earth Day couldn't be...

April 20, 2021 Feuds set aside as U.S. and China agree to cooperate on climate change

Source: NBC News

Ahead of President Joe Biden's summit of world leaders to address the issue this week, the world's two biggest greenhouse gas emitters "committed to cooperating with each other and with other countries" to tackle the issue, a...

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Research & Insights

February 26, 2021 Electric Grid of the Future Should Prioritize Sustainability, Resiliency, Equity, Reliability, and Security, Says New Report

Source: National Academies

A new congressionally mandated report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine provides comprehensive recommendations for improving the U.S. electric power system so that it can adequately provide...

February 16, 2021 New Global “Wind Atlas” Propels Sustainable Energy for All Parts of the World

Source: Sci Tech Daily

Wind energy scientists at Cornell University have released a new global wind atlas – a digital compendium filled with documented extreme wind speeds for all parts of the world – to help engineers select the turbines in any given...

February 11, 2021 People should be alarmed': air pollution in US subway systems stuns researchers

Source: The Guardian

People traveling on subway systems in major US cities are being exposed to unsafe amounts of air pollution, with commuters in New York and New Jersey subjected to the highest levels of pollution, research has found.

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Commentary & Opinion

April 19, 2021 Opinion: The Federal Reserve is out of control, bank analyst Dick Bove says

Source: Fox Business

Now going forward, what should you be looking at? You should be looking at the fact that, again, the Fed is out of control. It's printing money like wild men. Basically, the M2 is up 26% year-over-year. And that money all goes...

April 8, 2021 Jamie Dimon sounds the alarm on the future of American prosperity

Source: CNN Business

In his annual shareholder letter Wednesday, Dimon wrote that the Covid-19 pandemic, the "horrific murder" of George Floyd and the painfully slow economic growth of the past two decades are all symptoms of a broader problem:...

April 7, 2021 Remove the Earth Day T-Shirt From Your Digital Cart: Here’s What’s Required of Effective Sustainable Fashion

Source: Well and Good

Buying a piece from an Earth Day-inspired capsule collection is a wholly inadequate way to address the overlapping global crises connected to fashion production. We need to think bigger, and we are overdue for a second...

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