The Montgomery County Energy Team receives tons of newsletters and articles every day, and these are a few articles that we wanted to share this month. These articles range from county, state, national and international stories, we hope you find them as interesting as we did.
Alcohol: Synthetic bioluminescence from bacteria could make lighting wineries more sustainable and distillers may be able to use solar power to create vodka out of thin air and water, find out more about the green future of booze, www.bloomberg.com
Biomass: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will soon issue a regulation governing how carbon dioxide emissions from wood burned for energy (“biomass”) will be regulated under the Clean Air Act, www.thehill.com
Buy Nothing: This worldwide network of hyper-local gift economies in which the true wealth is the web of connections formed between people who are real-life neighbors, www.buynothingproject.org
Cleaner Cars: Strong clean car and fuel economy standards are an essential and effective strategy for reducing carbon pollution—they have already avoided emissions of over 467 million metric tons of CO2 since 2012 according to EPA’s own calculations, www.nrdc.org
Clean Energy: By a margin of 80% to 20%, Marylanders said they would prefer any government stimulus money be spent on helping the clean energy industry rather than oil, gas and coal companies, www.marylandmatters.org
Climate Change: The past few months have shown that individuals have an absolutely gobsmackingly critical role to play in confronting a global crisis, www.yaleclimateconnections.org
Economy: The biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions is energy production for electricity and heat, countries can accelerate this transition by reallocating the subsidies that are given to the fossil fuel industry to the development of renewable energy, www.globalcitizen.org
Education: Dominion Energy has collaborated with the National Energy Education Development Project (NEED) to bring solar energy arrays and renewable energy lesson plans to 34 educational institutions across Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina through the Solar for Students program, www.eesi.org
Electricity: On May 5th, renewable energy has now produced more electricity in the U.S. than coal for 40 days straight and that number is projected to continue, www.cbsnews.com
Foods: Climate change threatens many of the world's favorite foods. Here are four crops that we can definitely see change: coffee, bananas, wine, and olives, www.treehugger.com
Grid: Analysts, engineers and meteorologists tasked with predicting power use for every hour, every day but with the stay at home orders, forecasters struggle to find grid's 'new normal', www.eenews.net
Net Zero Buildings: Much of our greenhouse gas, especially in cities, comes from buildings. To fight climate change, cities are pushing for buildings that don’t pollute. In the Washington region, a few are showing the path forward in urban and suburban areas, www.ggwash.org
Nuclear: Confronted with the conundrum of no longer profitable nuclear plants, ambitious environmental goals, and the grid’s inherent need for reliable baseload power, which creates an atomic catch 22, www.blogs.ei.columbia.edu
Renewable Energy: Renewable energy comes from the forces of nature - sun, water, air and earth. It is endlessly available and, in the energy sector, it's the only choice to save the planet from climate change. Watch how green energy projects in four continents, supported by the EU bank, are paving the way towards a more sustainable future, www.youtube.com
Solar: Spotsylvania Solar Energy Center, in Virginia, will be the largest solar plant east of the Rockies and it is scheduled to be completed in 2021, www.greentechmedia.com
Water Heaters: Heat pump water heaters (HPWH) hold tons of promise for getting us out of the heating conundrum and becoming the water heating method of the 21st century, www.cleantechnica.com
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