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The greening of Avalon Street began in 2014, with the installation of a solar street light in front of Shu's home. The rest of the block will soon have more solar lights. Homework House will have geothermal heating and cooling, as well as a metal roof designed to save on cooling costs. The project received an $18,000 in-kind donation from Luma Resources, a company that manufactures shingle-style solar panels for rooftops.

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Since Google declared its 100 percent commitment to renewables back in 2012, it has signed contracts that will help add almost 2.6 gigawatts of wind- and solar-generated electricity to the grid by the time all the projects are completely.

Google will soon deliver on 100% renewables promise So far, it is helping add 2.6 gigawatts of wind and solar power to the global grid.

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“Renewable power is an economical, practical solution for a growing number of locations and energy needs, and islands that have traditionally relied on fossil fuels can easily transition to microgrids powered by solar and storage today.”

Tesla Flexes Its Solar Muscle By Powering An Entire Pacific Island Pacific Islanders are among the most vulnerable people to climate change. This is a way of fighting back.

"Hyperloop helps shrink the city," he said. "This is possible, and it's technically doable."

Compute Midwest: KC to LA in 35 minutes? 'It's technically doable' - Kansas City Business Journal Imagine traveling as fast as the speed of sound and arriving at Los Angeles from Kansas City in 35 minutes. With Hyperloop, that could become a reality.

Healthy soil is our ticket to reverse global warming. With regenerative agriculture, we can draw down carbon and put it back in the ground.

Regenerative Agriculture Will Feed the World and Cool the Planet "It's time to stop subsidizing agricultural practices that contribute to global warming, and start subsidizing food, farming and land-use practices that restore the soil's capacity to draw down and re-sequester excess carbon from the atmosphere and store it in the soil."

An effective transportation system is to the sustainable city what a well-functioning circulatory system is to a healthy human being.

Mass Transit in the Sustainable City | Huffington Post Anyone moving to a part of New York City that has subway service is advised to be sure they live within walking distance of that subway. The part of Broo...

During a press event at Universal Studios in LA, Musk announced that Tesla will build and sell its own line of solar panels with integrated batteries.

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Cities make up less than 3 percent of Earth’s land area, but consume around 70 percent of global final energy and produce 75 percent of carbon emissions.

Dear mayors: Connect sustainable development to climate action Our SDGs Letter Project is a call to action. A little over a year ago, the U.N.

Reducing waste in the food system could deliver $405 billion annually, while restoring degraded land could deliver up to $85 billion annually.

Sustainable agriculture can unlock $2.3 trillion, report says That's a stunning figure to describe potential added value by 2030, not to mention generating 80 million jobs. Here's what's key.

Farms is the first system to use power and seawater to grow crops. The first system opened in Australia last Thursday.

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The potential for wind is enormous. The Department of Energy thinks offshore could one day deliver twice as much as Americans used to keep the grid stable last year.

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