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  • How to make a carbon tax popular? Give the proceeds to the people

    December 04, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Canada

    After decades of forest devastation coupled with harsh winters, Canada was facing an uncertain future as climate change realities came into focus. To mitigate the damage, the country's government made the decisive move of implementing a carbon tax that not only taxed fossil fuel emissions, but incentivized those making carbon-conscious choices with the money gained from the policy.

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  • Winter is coming and so is bad air: What psychology can teach us about fixing Utah's air quality problem

    November 14, 2018 |

    Deseret News |

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    Response Location: United States, Salt Lake City, Utah

    In an effort to get people to change habits to decrease pollution in Salt Lake City, the city is trying several approaches using behavioral psychology to encourage residents to change their long-standing habits. For instance, free transit days assist new riders in learning how to use the public transit system. Mostly, the city is looking to the successes of places like California and Norway where the incentives are stronger, all in hopes of making the air quality safer.

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  • How a city in China became the world's first to make all buses electric

    November 06, 2018 |

    Apolitical |

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    Response Location: China

    China is a major contributor to the rising levels of CO2 emissions, but they are also one of the most active players in mediating their impact. Their new energy buses have not only drastically reduced gas consumption but are far more energy efficient.

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  • From German trains to South Korean buses, hydrogen fuel is back in the energy picture

    November 06, 2018 |

    Ensia |

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    Response Location: Germany, Hamburg

    Hydrogen fuel has made promising strides from Germany to Japan, thanks to shifting markets for renewables, improved storage technologies, and emissions-reduction goals. Electrolysis that uses renewables to make the fuel could transform transportation and energy infrastructure, but a few concerns about the unintended effects persist.

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  • How One Inuit Community Won Against Big Oil

    October 09, 2018 |

    The New Republic |

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    Response Location: Canada, Northwest Territories

    Faced with the existential threat posed by an oil company in their community, the Gwich’in nation banded together with a former rival, Greenpeace, to take the company to court. By highlighting the failure of the company to consult the community and think through the effects of oil exploration on "lives and livelihoods," the Canadian Supreme Court forced the company to look for oil elsewhere.

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  • In Sweden, Trash Heats Homes, Powers Buses and Fuels Taxi Fleets

    September 21, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Sweden, Linköping

    In Sweden, waste is not just waste, or so the country explains with a total of 34 waste-to-energy power plants that turn garbage into electricity. With an already staggering low percentage of waste ending up in landfills, 50 percent of the portion that does is transformed into energy through an incineration process that plays a large part in heating many homes throughout the winter.

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  • The Movement for Urban Tree Expansion Is Growing

    September 18, 2018 |

    Pacific Standard |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Austin, Texas and King County, Washington are both participating in a new experiment by non-profit City Forest Credits (CFC) that uses creative financing to fund green spaces and tree-planting in cities. More specifically, CFC is piloting a new way that private entities can "offset their carbon emissions by buying credits for tree planting or preservation." Although the work is costly at the beginning, organizers hope the public benefits of more urban trees will make the program a worthy investment.

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  • Kentucky town's energy transition shows ‘you can do this stuff anywhere'

    September 10, 2018 |

    Energy News Network |

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    Response Location: United States, Benham, Kentucky

    Benham may not be the first city to come to mind when thinking about clean energy advancements, but the small Kentucky city has made great strides in recent years to switch to solar energy. Hoping to reduce the cost of electric bills and simultaneously keep the lights on at the local coal museum, this transition could act as a learning opportunity for similar towns and regions.

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  • A new use for Google Maps: calculating a city's carbon footprint

    September 10, 2018 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: United States

    Founded by Google, the Environmental Insights Explorer is an online tool that shows the amount of emissions being released from city structures and transportation. Although still being tested, the tool guides cities towards ways to reduce their carbon footprint and better increase sustainability efforts.

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  • Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change

    August 01, 2018 |

    The New York Times Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States

    In the late 1970s to late 1980s, activists, scientists, and politicians began to address the climate change crisis. For a decade, they attempted to ask the U.S. to commit to an international agreement to reduce emissions, and they almost succeeded. “In a single decade, they turned a crisis that was studied by no more than several dozen scientists into the subject of Senate hearings, front-page headlines and the largest diplomatic negotiation in world history.”

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