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Biden pledged to end new federal oil and gas leasing. And, as president, he has said he wants to conserve at least 30% of public lands and waters by 2030.

Posted by GreenDog on Monday, 30 October 2023 in Sustainable Development

By Lisa Friedman The New York Times Of all of the efforts by the Biden administration to protect environmentally fragile lands, few have generated as much vitriol as a proposal that would block oil and gas drilling on 1.6 million acres of high desert sagebrush steppe in Wyoming. One lawmaker in t...

Longmont CO 10 years later, Longmont “far more resilient”

Posted by GreenDog on Monday, 11 September 2023 in Sustainable Development

LONGMONT By Matthew Bennett Prairie Mountain Media On the morning of Sept. 12, 2013, Dale Rademacher departed Vance Brand Airport on a helicopter ride that he remembers as if it were yesterday. Record rainfall was about to generate flooding in Longmont, and Rademacher, who was the city’s directo...

homeowners in Louisville, Superior choosing to go “green”

Posted by GreenDog on Tuesday, 28 February 2023 in Sustainable Development

MARSHALL FIRE Most rebuilds following energy-efficient codes Stricter standards prompted protests; now, homeowners in Louisville, Superior choosing to go “green” By Noelle Phillips This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. A year ago, Audrey DeBarros led a protest outside Louisville City Hall to demand the C...

NORTHEAST AURORA Mixed-use community to stress sustainability

Posted by GreenDog on Thursday, 15 September 2022 in Sustainable Development

By Judith Kohler The Denver Post A former homestead will be the site of a residential community in northeast Aurora that the developers say will incorporate the elements of the high prairie and such forward-looking features as energy-efficient buildings and native, more environmentally sustainable...

INDIA State offers playbook in effort to ban disposable plastic

Posted by GreenDog on Tuesday, 02 August 2022 in Sustainable Development

By Sameer Yasir © The New York Times Co. CHENNAI, INDIA » Amul Vasudevan, a vegetable hawker in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, thought she was going to go out of business. The state had forbidden retailers to use disposable plastic bags, which were critical for her livelihood because th...

“It’s good busıness to be kind”

Posted by GreenDog on Friday, 22 April 2022 in Sustainable Development

“It’s good busıness to be kind” Inmate-turned-developer breaking ground in RiNo says he’s putting kindness over profits By Elizabeth Hernandez The Denver Post In his younger years, 66-year-old Bernard Hurley spent $120 a month at the prison canteen. Last month, the Denver inmate-turned-developer d...

Pinwheels for Prevention will be going sustainable

Posted by GreenDog on Friday, 08 April 2022 in Sustainable Development

By Sydney McDonald Broomfield Enterprise This year, a well-known symbol for Child Abuse Awareness Prevention Month is going sustainable. The Broomfield Early Childhood Council announced it is purchasing large metal blue pinwheels to plant in partner locations, as opposed to the normal sma...

“Change is going to happen” In tiny Wyoming town that has relied on coal, bets big on nuclear power

Posted by GreenDog on Tuesday, 25 January 2022 in Sustainable Development

By Brady McCombs and Mead Gruver The Associated Press KEMMERER, WYO. » In this sleepy Wyoming town that has relied on coal for over a century, a company founded by the man who revolutionized personal computing is launching an ambitious project to counter climate change: a nationwide reboot of nucl...

This ecologist who works for God, against lawns

Posted by GreenDog on Wednesday, 08 December 2021 in Sustainable Development

By Cara Buckley © The New York Times Co. WADING RIVER, N.Y. » If Bill Jacobs were a petty man, or a less religious one, he might look through the thicket of flowers, bushes and brambles that encircle his home and see enemies all around. For to the north, and to the south, and to the west a...

Saving history with sandbags

Posted by GreenDog on Tuesday, 30 November 2021 in Sustainable Development

Climate change threatens Smithsonian, artifacts By Christopher Flavelle © The New York Times Co. WASHINGTON » President Warren Harding’s blue silk pajamas. Muhammad Ali’s boxing gloves. The Star-Spangled Banner. Scripts from the television show “M*A*S*H.” Nearly 2 million irrep...

Urban blossoming

Posted by GreenDog on Thursday, 04 November 2021 in Sustainable Development

Businesses, partners working to restore nature to RiNo, Five Points In Denver, CO By Judith Kohler The Denver Post Jevon Taylor’s goal as a clothes designer and retailer goes beyond selling shirts and sweatshorts, just as his reasons for promoting the “greening” of the Five Points neighborh...

Will these places survive a collapse? Don’t bet on it, skeptics say

Posted by GreenDog on Monday, 09 August 2021 in Sustainable Development

By Heather Murphy © The New York Times Co. Will civilization as we know it end in the next 100 years? Will there be any functioning places left? These questions might sound like the stuff of dystopian fiction. But if recent headlines about extreme weather, climate change, the ongoing pandemic and ...

Biden Administration’s Embraces of Environmental Justice Has Made Wary Activists Willing to Believe

Posted by GreenDog on Tuesday, 03 August 2021 in Sustainable Development

By Agya K. Aning August 1, 2021 InsideClimatenews.org Decades after emerging from the broader civil rights movement, setting itself apart from traditional environmentalism, flourishing in academia and wending through public discourse, the environmental justice movement has now achieved unprecedent...

In Charleston, saving historic homes means hoisting them

Posted by GreenDog on Thursday, 29 July 2021 in Sustainable Development

By Richard Fausset and Christopher Flavelle © The New York Times Co. CHARLESTON, S.C. » Over the course of 150 years, the generations who lived in the handsome house at 17 Logan St. shared a similar experience when walking out of the front door: There were four or five st...

Bipartisan Bill Addressing Pollution on Working Lands and Economic Support to Landowners Passes Senate

Posted by GreenDog on Monday, 12 July 2021 in Sustainable Development

WASHINGTON (June 24, 2021) – “The Growing Climate Solutions Act recognizes the critical role that our working lands play in storing carbon and helping slow the effects of climate change,” said Melinda Cep, vice president of natural solutions and working lands at the National Audubon S...

California tests off-the-grid solutions to power outages

Posted by GreenDog on Thursday, 01 July 2021 in Sustainable Development

By Daisy Nguyen The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO » When a wildfire tore through Briceburg nearly two years ago, the tiny community on the edge of Yosemite National Park lost the only power line connecting it to the electrical grid. Rather than rebuilding poles and wires over i...

New York Embarks on a Massive Climate Resiliency Project to Protect Manhattan’s Lower East Side From Sea Level Rise ^Featured

Posted by GreenDog on Monday, 28 June 2021 in Sustainable Development

Some residents are wary of the $1.45 billion system of seawalls and floodgates that will elevate the East River Park and protect 110,000 New Yorkers from coastal storms and flooding. By Brahmjot Kaur June 25, 2021 Carlos Jusino has lived in the Lower East Side of Manhattan for over 35 ...

Pay for the infrastructure bill with a carbon tax

Posted by GreenDog on Thursday, 17 June 2021 in Sustainable Development

By Michael R. Strain Bloomberg Opinion Even if negotiators in Washington reach an agreement on a package to improve the nation’s infrastructure, paying for it will prove a major obstacle. This week, a bipartisan group of 10 moderate senators has advanced a $1.2 trillion, eight-year spendin...

Yes, We Can Electrify Almost Everything. Here’s What That Looks Like. ^Featured

Posted by GreenDog on Thursday, 10 June 2021 in Sustainable Development

Inside Clean Energy: National lab wraps up groundbreaking project on electrifying the economy By Dan Gearino June 3, 2021 Many scenarios for averting the worst effects of climate change involve electrifying just about everything that now runs on fossil fuels, and shifting to an electricity...

Clean energy jobs in Colorado, nationally are on the rebound

Posted by GreenDog on Wednesday, 21 April 2021 in Sustainable Development

By Judith Kohler The Denver Post After seeing jobs plunge by more than 600,000 at one point in 2020, the clean energy industry, which had been on a fast incline before the pandemic hit, surged 11% by year’s end, fueling optimism in Colorado and nationally that the trend is up. Last year was t...

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New York Embarks on a Massive Climate Resiliency Project to Protect Manhattan’s Lower East Side From Sea Level Rise Featured

Yes, We Can Electrify Almost Everything. Here’s What That Looks Like. Featured

New York Embarks on a Massive Climate Resiliency Project to Protect Manhattan’s Lower East Side From Sea Level Rise ^Featured

Yes, We Can Electrify Almost Everything. Here’s What That Looks Like. ^Featured