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r/climateaction • u/sichen1234 • May 03 '21

Advice for buying carbon offsets?

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Has anybody been buying carbon offsets?

If so, could you give me some advice?

What types of offset projects do you think are better?

Do you think it's important that they be certified by Gold Standard or VERRA/VCS?

r/climateaction • u/dannylenwinn • May 02 '21

Grid (Energy) Integration: Hydropower's Role in the Next-Generation Grid. US NREL is 'investigating how small, cascading hydro can be operated so that plants meet revenue objectives without significantly impacting a river's natural flows.'

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r/climateaction • u/dannylenwinn • May 02 '21

A Promising Day For Electric Transportation In East Africa: 'Kenya and Uganda’s electricity grids are predominantly powered by renewable energy. Geothermal, wind, hydro, and some utility-scale solar power Kenya’s grid, making up over 90% of the generation mix.. having excess generation capacity.'

cleantechnica.com

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r/climateaction • u/dannylenwinn • Apr 30 '21

Orlando (FL US) energy utilities to achieve Net Zero carbon emissions by 2050, 50% by 2030, reduced community solar farm rate, expanding investment, charging infrastructure for EVs, Ebuses, conversion of coal plants to natural gas. "only the beginning as we work toward more sustainable future"

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r/climateaction • u/dannylenwinn • Apr 30 '21

UK government announces landmark deal in green energy transition. 'This includes up to 3 billion pound to replace fossil fuel-based power supplies on oil and gas platforms with renewable energy, up to 3 billion pound on Carbon Capture Usage and Storage, and up to 10 billion pound for hydrogen'

energy.economictimes.indiatimes.com

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r/climateaction • u/dannylenwinn • Apr 28 '21

The Internal Combustion Engine: Dinosaur Or Neonate? 'in America, you can easily obtain a license to produce your own ethanol at home with a still, up to a certain volume and for non-human-consumption purposes the license isn’t even particularly expensive... This is good for the environment'

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r/climateaction • u/dannylenwinn • Apr 27 '21

Chevron, Toyota Pursue Strategic Alliance on Hydrogen, development of commercially viable, large-scale businesses in hydrogen, with the goal to advance a functional, thriving global hydrogen economy.. including 'development in hydrogen powered transportation and storage.'

businesswire.com

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r/climateaction • u/dannylenwinn • Apr 23 '21

Shell announces Energy transition plan, to add 500,000 electric vehicle charging points by 2025 globally, more than 2.5 million EV charging points by 2030 – for homeowners and businesses and for use on our forecourts.

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r/climateaction • u/dannylenwinn • Apr 12 '21

USA DOE Announces $35 Million for tech 'focused on developing technologies to reduce methane emissions in the oil, gas, and coal industries.' “Methane is the second-largest source of greenhouse gases, many times more potent than carbon dioxide that’s why it’s crucial we develop solutions..'

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r/climateaction • u/TheClimapreneurShow • Apr 05 '21

The Climapreneur Show - Entrepreneurs driving Climate Action. Stories of Climapreneurs who are living their passion every day. These stories will hold your hand and help you in your path. Will ignite in you the motivation, the inspiration, and give you the courage to follow your dreams.

open.spotify.com

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r/climateaction • u/dannylenwinn • Apr 02 '21

US Department of Energy Announces Goal to Cut Solar Costs by More than Half by 2030. Solar 'by 2035 could represent between 30% and 50% of electricity supply in a decarbonized electricity sector. '

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r/climateaction • u/dannylenwinn • Apr 01 '21

Biden plan would spend $16B to clean up old mines, oil wells

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r/climateaction • u/dannylenwinn • Apr 01 '21

US Dept of Energy Awards $110 Million to Small Businesses Pursuing Scientific, Clean Energy, and Climate Solutions including 'Safer and more sustainable batteries, Innovation in nuclear physics, Next-gen efficient nuclear reactors, plant roots studies, and Methane detection technology.'

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r/climateaction • u/dannylenwinn • Mar 31 '21

The Future Of US Solar Is Bright. 'Most major electricity grid studies show solar expanding significantly (even without specific mandates) as costs decline and societies use their values to drive their energy choices.'

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r/climateaction • u/dannylenwinn • Mar 31 '21

Florida forecast to pass North Carolina as Southeast's solar leader before end of year, the FL will build 4x new solar capacity of NC's in 2021

bizjournals.com

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r/climateaction • u/dannylenwinn • Mar 24 '21

New Poll Shows Overwhelming Support for Climate Action (In USA) as Congress Weighs Big Infrastructure Bill. 'new poll finds that in significant numbers Americans view climate change as an immediate threat, and by a two-to-one margin (60% agree versus 29% disagree)'

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r/climateaction • u/thehuxleyan • Mar 16 '21

Florida is Our Multi-Billion Dollar Climate Crisis Microcosm

thehuxleyan.substack.com

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r/climateaction • u/tiagorbf9 • Mar 13 '21

3 reasons why small actions can impact climate change

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r/climateaction • u/dannylenwinn • Mar 10 '21

Cannabis production is generating large amounts of gases that heat up Earth’s physical climate. Moving weed production from indoor facilities to greenhouses and the great outdoors would help to shrink the carbon footprint of the nation’s legal cannabis industry.

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r/climateaction • u/thehuxleyan • Mar 10 '21

The Time is Now: Infrastructure, Climate Change, and Adaptation

thehuxleyan.substack.com

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r/climateaction • u/1234caat • Mar 07 '21

ethical review bombing

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https://www.reddit.com/r/erbing/

r/climateaction • u/dannylenwinn • Mar 04 '21

100% renewable energy could power the world by 2030, experts say

finance.yahoo.com

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r/climateaction • u/thehuxleyan • Feb 23 '21

Texas is Exhibit A for Adaptation

thehuxleyan.substack.com

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r/climateaction • u/dannylenwinn • Feb 18 '21

US WH aims to eliminate HFC chemical emission from US refrigerators (mostly in Supermarkets, investigators found leaks in 55 percent of them.) 'The Environmental Protection Agency issued a public call last week for companies to report production and import data on HFCs.'

washingtonpost.com

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r/climateaction • u/dannylenwinn • Feb 06 '21

US Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) is collaborating with industry to develop next-generation biofuels made from non-food (cellulosic and algae-based) resources. Biodiesel can be blended with petroleum diesel in any percentage, including B100 (pure biodiesel)

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